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Genetics- breeding for color variation

nina89

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Doesn't matter how much I read about genetics I cant wrap my head around it. Can someone dumb it down in the simplest way and advise what color I should breed with my white albino Axolotl so that I have an assortment of colors.

https://www.caudata.org/forum/showthread.php?t=81547
this is her in the link and a short history on her genetics

Jinians post was almost spot on with the color ratios in the batch. there was only a handful of albinos, lots of wild type and an equal amount of golden and leucistics

If you didn't read the post the white albino I'd like to breed came from a wild type male and either a wild type or leucistic axolotl female, I originally thought wild type in the previous post because I thought my leucistic was a male (he's actually a she).
If you look at the juvi in pic three in the link it looks very much like my axolotl bandit who is a heavily spotted leucistic, I've added a pic for reference.
and the albino is the one I'm talking about when she was a juvenile.

My main questions are.
What colour variation should I be looking for to put with my white albino to have an assortment of colors if
1. parents are both wild type, or
2. parents wild type and leucistic
 

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Biev

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For the most variation, you want to breed your albino with a wild-type. (You’ll get even more variation if it’s a GFP wild-type.)

Bandit is gorgeous!
 

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Unless you know what carried recessive genes they each carry you'll just have to take pot luck.
 
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