I do like that pumpkin head!
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Those are beautiful, and definitely appear to have something different going on (to my admittedly untrained eye). They sort of remind me of Batik, except…not. 
Both their parents are wild type?
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Welcome to the STP club! 
Beautiful Sumatran, I love the orange head. 
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Yes, the parents are both wild type, suggesting that this is not Batik or Matrix, since those are incomplete dominant and would have to have a visual parent. Interestingly, every baby in the clutch looked like this, instead of the certain percentage of normals I would have expected if the parents were both “hets” for some recessive trait.
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That’s wild, especially that all the babies looked weird like that. Very cool. I really like the way they look. Are you going to try breed them and figure out if/how this look is genetic?
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I considered trying to prove it out, but ultimately decided to sell the project. I will be very interested to see what happens with it though.
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