Having both a vanilla male and a fire male. Having bred both males as co-dom makers and combo makers, I myself, personally, can easily distinguish my vanillas and fires even at hatching.
That being said. I bought the best and brightest examples of the morphs I could find. I think that makes a big difference. I have seen many, many fires that I could barely distinguish from a normal. The same thing with vanillas. If you bred one of those I am quite sure telling the offspring apart would be nearly impossible. The key to a project like this would be to use the best examples of the prospective morph you could find, then the task becomes easy. Now, do I know for sure if I bred both to a co dom female, say a mojave, that I'd be able to tell if it were a vanilla mojave or fire mojave, not yet. But I suspect I could.
Gale
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