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I found a bunch of unusually colored axolotls from the same clutch of eggs a few months ago. It'll be interesting to see what they turn out like as full grown adults. Right now they are 6-7 inches. Here are some photos from when they were a couple inches....
 

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I still have them all, here are a few of them today, you can see their color has changed quite a bit.
 

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very very cool! if i remember my colour variants correctly those are chimeric right? the glow in the dark part is very interesting, is it bc one of the parents is GFP? for some reason from my bio class i remember learning tht u cant pass on acquired characteristics but maybe tht does not apply to axys? non the less they are very beautiful :)
 
Jake, those are some very special axolotls you have! But I am sure you already know that:happy:
Very cool:cool:
 
axys said:
very very cool! if i remember my colour variants correctly those are chimeric right? the glow in the dark part is very interesting, is it bc one of the parents is GFP? for some reason from my bio class i remember learning tht u cant pass on acquired characteristics but maybe tht does not apply to axys? non the less they are very beautiful :)
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I believe an animal that is different on either side is called a bilateral gynandromorph, but I have been fooled before. "Chimera" just means not possible in reality. Their father is gfp, normally the offspring will either express it or not, but several of them do on just part of their bodies.
 
Jake said:
I believe an animal that is different on either side is called a bilateral gynandromorph, but I have been fooled before. "Chimera" just means not possible in reality. Their father is gfp, normally the offspring will either express it or not, but several of them do on just part of their bodies.
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my bio teacher will love this, she runs labs where we make bacteria glow with the GFP in plasmids
 
Do you plan on/have you already bred the parents multiple times with similar results in the offspring? I've heard of axolotls that favor producing multiple embryos per egg but yours would be truly unique if you had a trait like this being passed down or controlled


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Boomsloth said:
Do you plan on/have you already bred the parents multiple times with similar results in the offspring? I've heard of axolotls that favor producing multiple embryos per egg but yours would be truly unique if you had a trait like this being passed down or controlled


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I've had around 20 of them over the last few years and all of them were related to the same adults (not necessarily the same pairing). I honestly think it's because of the numbers I raise. You're more likely to get one out of thousands than if you just raise a dozen.
 
Neil C said:
The last one reminds me a bit of "Pirate". Same parents?


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No, but the father is one of Pirate's offspring, they do look very similar and this one looks to be a female too. :D
 
I love them! do you ever sell the babies?
 
Omgshhhhhhh absolutely gorgeous axolotls you have them. You are so fortunate to have those! I love them!
 
ks85 said:
I love them! do you ever sell the babies?
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I would consider it.

ladygodiva35 said:
You are so fortunate to have those! I love them!
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I think more people would have them if they'd stop messing around only raising a few dozen or a few hundred at a time. If they would just get serious and raise thousands I'm sure plenty of people would have them.
 
I want one of the funky wild looking ones! totally jealous. I absolutely love wildtypes and weird leucistic spotted looking axies. so unique!

I agree with you, the more you raise, the better the chances that you will get some interesting looking young, but most people aren't capable of rearing large numbers... they die off, or get culled down to numbers that the person who bred their axies can manage. it's unfortunate because really to get a nice variety you need to know how to cull appropriately if that's what you are going to do.
 
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