Quote Originally Posted by RandyRemington
So IMHO the test for enchi compatibility will not be just to produce a super looking combination with pastel. Even if they are separate genes when you cross a regular pastel with an enchi pastel you would expect to get 25% normals, 25% regular pastel only, 25% enchi pastel only, and 25% both genes combined. The cumulative effect of both genes combined might look super without them being the same gene.
I agree to an extent. Like I said earlier, a single breeding season isn't going to be enough to prove anything. That said, anyone with an eye for Pastels will readily see the differences between an Enchi and a Graziani. The head pattern, the tounge color etc. So a 25% Graziani, 25% Enchi offspring would be noticable to an experienced breeder.

If the enchi looks consistently different you would expect that even at that first step when you cross with another pastel line you could continue to pick out the two different lines in the offspring indicating that there may well be a different version of the pastel gene involved.
How do you define "consistently different". The Enchi certainly looks similar to the other pastel lines, and the Super Enchi looks similar to other Super Pastels. Granted, crossing an Enchi with another morph does look "different" than a Pastel with the same cross, but that doesn't remove doubt. See my Cinny and Black example.