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Question: What morph/type is my axolotl?

LazyLotl

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I'm trying to figure out if this axolotl is mosaic, half mosaic half leucistic, or just a dirty leucistic. To me, it looks like one side of him is just leucistic and the other looks leucistic with little patches of wild type (mosaic?). This isn't like a super important question or anything, just wondering. Also sorry about the picture quality, my camera is quite bad and I don't keep a hood light on them so the lighting is terrible.
 

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KumquatSquats

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ohhhh good question, based on the way the pattern is distributed im also on the fence if this is a mosaic/harlequin or just an interesting freckled lucy.
Super cute in any case! thanks for sharing
 
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