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when i got this one i was told it was a male but unsure of the type. i had it probed and it turned out to be a female. now just curious of the type? thank you

It looks like a zigzag patterned amel corn. Is that what the person you purchased it from had it labled as???

actually they didnt know what it was

could she be sunglow?

I dont think so. The zigzagging pattern my be reducing the white, but a sunglow would show no white bordering between the blotches and background. A sunglow would be just red and orange. FYI, I believe sunglow is a line bred trait, just like Okeetee morphs. With sunglows, amel corns were selectively bred to eliminate the bordering (white in amels) around the blotches, hence no white. Regardless if sunglow, fluorescent, candy cane, etc., they are all just amel corns line bred to emphasize/reduce one color or another.

Assuming that's a "pure" corn, I'd call it an amel. Sunglow doesn't have any white.

Tim
Third Eye

looks like a normal amel to me.
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PHLdyPayne

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It has a normal amel phenotype. Here is a good example of a "sunglow" I cherry-picked from a big clutch of babies way back in about 1991. This was way before the name "sunglow" was ever coined. All the other siblings had white around the borders, but this male had absolutely ZERO white on a single scale, and it made him stand out from all the others.

Adittinally, some "sunglow" bloodlines have the recessive hypomelanism trait added in so the borders are more reduced, but it isn't necessary to to have hypo to get them to look this way as this animal is also proof of. It is just as the other's have said, and is a line-bred trait for expressing the total reduction of white blotch borders. Some individual's can still have a very tiny amount of white though however, but not very much at all.

In any case, yours is indeed a nice looking regular amelanistic(albino), not a sunglow.

~Doug

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