I found this lovely amel girl at a pet shop earlier and couldn’t help but pick her up! She’s got such a lovely red on her so I was just wondering if there could be any other genes present?
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Looks like RF or Super RF to me. @caryl @solarserpents @deanaii thoughts?
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I agree that it’s something like that, some kind of red enhancer. It looks to be from Reverse Okeetee lines, which may have Red Factor, Red Coat, or even Cherry mutations in those lines. Really pretty! 
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I had a feeling she could have been from okeetee lines! She sure is a beauty and one I’m glad to have gotten!
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Wow, gorgeous amel! Definitely something making her so red. Did the pet store say where they got her from?
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No unfortunately she was only marked as an amel with no other info so it’s pretty much a guessing game. But I just thought she looked gorgeous so I had to get her!
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She’s bewitching! She’s definitely got at least one kind of red-enhancing trait. There no way to be certain which unless she’s bred, but I won’t be at all surprised if she were to prove to be Super RF, perhaps along with something else.
My first impulse was actually Cherry, but I can’t say quite why. Something about the hue, though of course that could be your image or my screen. I don’t actually work with Cherry, though I think it’s gorgeous. It’s not super common, and I wouldn’t really expect a random pet shop to have one but you never know.
Super nice pickup! Congratulations!
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She sure is lovely! Part of me thinks she could potentially be a sunrise Super RF Amel though. But without breeding it would be hard to tell.
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Why Sunrise?
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I compared what she looks like to some sunrise amels and there seemed to be a resemblance but I could just be completely off. I also just noticed that her belly checkers are a clear/grey colour.
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Ah. It’s possible, of course, though again unlikely. Sunrise can only be identified for certain when they’re tiny hatchlings. They start life very pale, looking more like an odd Opal or Butter than an Amel. The morph gets its name because they color “rises,” and they gain red as they grow. It’s not usually thought of as a red-enhancing gene but when present, it’s often found in combination with them. This is at least in part because Sunrise is most easily seen in Amels, and there are many selectively bred Amel lines with red enhancing traits.
Amels can have red, orange, yellow, white, clear, even green (for Halo) color on their belly checkers. All of that is considered normal. We’ll be happy to look if you want to “pay” a pic.
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I’ll make sure to leave a picture in the morning then! It’s currently 11pm for me 
and id like to leave her some time to settle in for a bit too.
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Rest well!
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This popped into my head as well, but I didn’t mention it as I’m not sure how prevalent Cherry is in the UK. I know it does look quite reminiscent of some of the SMR examples I’ve seen.
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That was my first impulse as well, but with it being a newer morph, I thought it was unlikely to be a random pet store find. But something about the deep red saturation looks cherry to me.
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What a belly! It would take rounds of breeding trials to know for sure what red enhancer or enhancers are at work here. I agree with @solarserpents that the saturation is so extreme that it makes Cherry an attractive guess.
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I’ve never actually seen cherry on MM for sale on the UK so if she does turn out to be a cherry then she sure was an amazing find! Also how much is know about cherry so far since I’ve heard it’s a more recent gene and I haven’t been able to find much info about it online.
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So much saturation! She really is beautiful, top and bottom. Without knowing her background there’s no way to say which red-enhancing traits are present, but whatever the case, the results are beautiful.
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Cherry is a recessive red enhancer that seems to really only express well in Amels, from what I’ve heard.
My guess is that someone had an RO project, and the ones that didn’t have wide enough white saddle borders to qualify as RO were sold to pet stores etc. Personally, I love almost-ROs.
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