I want a lime green one with purple and turquoise spots. Thats not going to happen unless I can get a white albino and tattoo it - but I'm not an evil scientist bent on creating weird and unnatural colourings (and anyone who would actually do that should be shot anyway).
You should be breeding for health and for the love of axies, not to produce 'popular' colours. And if you think you can make any serious money breeding and selling axies you are mistaken, you'll be lucky to cover your costs unless you plan a huge axie farm that takes over your house.
Whats the obsession with 'popular' colours anyway? I love them all, each colour type has it's own beauty, each axie has it's own personality. I don't care what colour babies my adults produce as long as they are healthy, it's the enjoyment of raising the babies that I like.
The most 'desirable' axie is one that has been looked after properly and is healthy.
Of course,
And then there's no harm in being a little tolerant of other peoples opinions either, even if they may differ from your own.
Just to be clear...
My ABSOLUTELY primary reason for owning axolotls is that I love the animal and enjoy caring for them.
Mine also have their own individual personalities, which are noticed and appreciated. Did you not notice their names and my detailed familiarity of their individual traits?
I also believe that they should be cared for properly, and absolutely cringe when I see pics of emaciated animals with burnt off gills etc.
I never used the term "popular", but mentioned that I "like" the gold ones (which I do), despite them looking like a lump of compressed ear wax (!?).
The breeding plan I described explicitly mentioned trying to encourage vigor rather than inbreeding to chase one color, but then locking in the traits that I like through line breeding, which is nothing new.
As for selling, I won't be quitting the day job, but I want to breed them and when I do I'll need to sell some of the offspring, and hopefully that will contribute to the expenses of my hobby as well as offer some people a nice axie to enjoy.
That's where I'm coming from, nowhere else.