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Question: What is up with this axie?

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Someone showed me these pics of their axolotl who has completely changed colour.
It started off quite pale, then looked quite wildtype, now it looks like a smudgy luecistic!
What is going on? My own axie Haku changed colours a little, looking half leucistic and half wildtype when he was little, and is now a dirty faced leucistic, but his transformation is nothing like this!

Does anyone know anything about this? Is it a unique type of axie?
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The photos are all the same axie, the last one is his current look. Do you think he'll loose his colour completely?
 
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Is he...mint green in those first two pictures..? That's the oddest thing I've ever seen, but so cool! I wonder if he's a piebald or harlequin. I don't have much knowledge on them so I can't be sure, maybe someone else will correct me.
 
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I can only assume it's the axie equivalent of vitiligo - where the body stops producing pigment. I have no idea of the mechanism or genetics though.

He looks happy and healthy enough though :)
 
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That's a fascinating thought. I'm not sure if something like that is possible with axolotls/fish but if it is..I want a magical changing axolotl. lol
 
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Hello!

This is my axolotl, and I can say I was very surprised when this started happening. I thought a slight change in darkness wasn't so extremely weird, but I am still baffled that he is loosing more and more of his colour and seems to be heading towards all white.
It's a fascinating thought that it might be the equivalent of Vitiligo.

~Kai
 
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Oh, didn't realise people had replied! Thanks for your input guys, and especially Julia for the links! It's very interesting to see this has happened to a few people!
 
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