This is without a doubt the head-scratching craziest clutch to me!
baby #1, looks like a pretty standard nice normal. See them everywhere.
Babies 2-4, I'd call vanilla almost, but they don't have the prominent faded head of a vanilla. But to have 3 that all look so much alike? I find it hard to just call them "light normals".
And #5 I'd call a fire, if it had some blushing or flames and a bit more of a head fade.
About the best I can say for sure about them right now is, I'm jealous you hatched so many nice babies. That and... I'm glad I'm not the one trying to figure them out!!
I really suspect there is some kind of recessive gene at play here. Axanthic is first to come to mind, considering how much like an axanthic that one baby looked in the egg. My guess is, mom is het. And those creamy babies are as well. Problem is you said they were all girls. So you can't even breed one back to mom to see what is going on. I think at this point, I'd start looking for a 100% het axanthic male, since those are most affordable, and put him to mom and later on the creamy girls.
I know there are no absolute markers to look for to identify a het of any kind that are right 100% of the time. But the bigger guys will tell you, there are clues to look for, especially when looking at a group of normals for possible hets. And I swear, if I were looking at your clutch for possible hets, I'd be all over those creamy babies in a heartbeat.
In fact, they look a LOT like the creamy light normal female I make my vanillas with. What do you think? This is my only decent photo of her right now, but can you see how creamy she is?
People thin she is a morph all the time. She's been called a Hypo, a Vanilla and something else, I forget what.
Gale
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