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What color are these babies?

This is a discussion on What color are these babies? within the Axolotl Eggs, Larvae & Breeding forums, part of the Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) category; My batch laid on Feb 5, 2012 is on the third day of hatching and we have 147 hatched babies ...

Axolotl Eggs, Larvae & Breeding Eggs everywhere, how did that happen? Will it be albino or wildtype?

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My batch laid on Feb 5, 2012 is on the third day of hatching and we have 147 hatched babies so far.

The mother is a wildtype and the father is a golden albino.
Some of the axie babies are dark and some are a tan color....what color will they grow to be?

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The dark ones are wildtype. The pale ones are probably leucistic.
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Ok thanks...I was unsure because I thought leucistic babies had to have dark eyes?
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You know, I did notice that. I had originally thought they might be some weird melanoid. Maybe melanoid leucistics?

It'll be fun to wait and see.
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If the father is golden albino I would say the lighter ones are probably the same, they look very much like what my baby golden albinos looked like when my wild and golden albino mated good luck
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here is as clear of a close up as I could get of one of the tan/gold babies
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I've never raised albino babies, so I'll take Zoe's word for it!
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I'd say golden albino... Goldens laid by a dark coloured female seem to look darker when hatched, but you can already see the shiny eye ring in some of the photos, so not melanoid. Also I can see some leucistic and wildtypes there... Good mix :)
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There has been an almost identical thread on the German axolotl forum and as stated above it appears that albinos and golden albinos from dark coloured mother start off dark and lighten with time. Might need to stick translator on the link below.

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Certainly new to me! Let us know how they develop.

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