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Piebald Copper!!

Neil C

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Well I'm not sure if these can even exist but have a look at the pics below and see what you think. This might not be as striking as say a wildtype with a big white patch but it's still unusual. This copper has never had a disease or been injured which could have caused this pattern. Both it's front legs have almost no colour although one legs does have a few sparkles on it. This came out of two coppers I bred last year and is still pretty small as you can see. Anyway enjoy.


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thats really cool, congrats Neil! i like the cool unpigmented band behind the head, and how you can still faintly see the patern on it. It is very pretty. How big is it atm?
 
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That's awesome. Looks like they ran out of spray paint.
 
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Thanks for the replies. As you can see it's almost a year old and still easily fits in a chinese takeaway container. It was one of the slow growing ones that I usually give away for free when I sell other axolotls so I'm glad I kept it.

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there are always some of those slow growing ones! I've heard them be called midgets, like its a genetic thing. It sort of makes it extra cool
 
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I'm not sure how I missed THIS! That's an amazing animal, Neil! I hope it's still doing well :)
 
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This is super cool! So neat how the front legs are pretty much see through.
 
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I'm sorry to say that this animal died about a week after the photo was taken. There aren't too many good reasons why some axolotls grow very slowly. It didn't feed as usual one day and was dead the next. I would have liked to see the colouring when it was older but if it was struggling in any way then I guess it was for the best.


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