The only way to definitively tell which strain you have in many cases is to do a test breeding.
Normal bells are east to tell apart, they have a relatively dark pattern and light pinkish eyes. Once you get into hybinos, I'd be hard pressed in many cases to say which is which since some light tremper hybinos can also have very red eyes. Rainwaters tend to have a very faded pattern, but I've seen a few with very distinct patterns, and I've also seen trempers with faded patterns. I kind of think of rainwaters and bells as being on two opposite ends. They're easy to tell apart. Trempers, however, seem to fill up the middle and have regions of overlap with each.
You can kind of get a feel for the different strains by looking at lots of pictures. But, I've seen lots of pictures, and have leos of all three strains, and there are a few that I've seen that still have me stumped.
-Alice
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