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Do Leucistic (white) Axolotls look like wild types until they are adults (12 months)? Some of the pictures I've seen make the leucistic seem white even when they are little. Can someone clarify this for me? Thanks.
 
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Hi! I'm not sure what you mean about wild type. Isn't this dark/green/yellow/brown sort of colours? I have a young leucistic. Here's a photograph of her nosing around her tank. I don't know for sure that she is female. I just prefer not to call her an 'it'. Hope this helps.

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The wild types are the greenish brown ones. I'm looking for a Leucistic and a site I went to said that they look like wild types until they reach about 12 months of age, and then they turn white. How old was yours when you got it (or how big)? Did it have green spots?

I appreciate your reply. Thanks!
 
They look like wild when they hatch. They start loosing pigment quite young. My 3" ones all look pretty much like they will as adults only smaller.
 
I got mine about two weeks ago. Someone on here guessed that she's between 6 months to a year. Someone else guessed between 6 - 8 months. She was about 3.5" when I got her, but I think she's grown an inch and a bit since then. I hope that's not too fast!
 
Thanks for the reply. I just wanted to make sure!! Your Axolotl is so cute! I can't wait to get one!!!
 
Thanks! I know she is! *Girly squeal* :love:

Good luck getting your baby ^_^
 
Leucistics look marginally like wildtypes when they first hatch, but within a week, you can usually pick the leucistics out from the wildtypes. You can certainly differentiate by the time they're 2 or 3cm long. They are white all throughout their development. They don't magically change color when they reach a year of age.
 
If Leucistic axolotls are grown towards the top of their temperature range they grow fast and become white as Michael and Kaysie describe.

If grown cool and slowly they may show increasing pigmentation until at least 12cm (5 inches) which then seems to be deep in the skin and fades on increasing growth again resulting in a white adult.
 
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