Originally Posted by
Rod
I can see black pigments, but i can't see pepper as in pigeon blood pepper. None on the nose or the caudal peduncle/caudal base. Brown based, golden based and pigeon based all have black pigments on them and it is entirely possible for them all to express it in the places we can see it like the lips, fin rays etc. Do all the golden based ones look like this? With the pigeon based gene we are likely to see much variation in the expression of black pigments, some will have quite heavy expression in area's while some won't, whereas with golden based they will be very similar to each other, if not virtually identical within the one particular type. The faint bars do point towards a golden i believe.