Quote Originally Posted by nikkubus View Post
Your female seems like she may have something besides just Pied as her color is pretty bright for an adult Pied. If you have any pics of her when she was younger, it might help to figure out what's going on better. If you take a look at how the yellow eyes stripe on your male is, that is a pretty solid indicator of Enchi. Before trying to ID OS, it would be better to figure out what's going on with mom if we can to make sense of the varying colors in OS. My best guess without more pictures of her is Brite, as it's the only thing I can think of that would cut the black down as much as hers to a more brown shade without causing pied to go super high white like a Lesser Pied. Any idea what her parents were? Her headstamp is pretty strong too, but then again all her OS have pretty strong headstamps as well, so that bit might be a line quality vs a morph indicator. I cannot find a single picture of a Brite Pied, but given that it's allelic with Fire, I would expect it to behave similarly and still allow for a range of highish white to 50/50s without the help of Enchi.

I will get a better picture of her tonight after work. I purchased her as a single gene pied from Steve Winkler, and I doubt he would have missed a fire line as a juvenile. I suspect it was my photo that is making her look brighter than normal. It was a last minute shot I took in her tub. I will take better ones this evening.

Thanks for the response nikku