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Hatchlings with transparent eyes?

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NewtScamander

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Hello,
The eggs from my leucistic (female) and golden albino (male) recently hatched and I appear to be getting two different morphs. Half appear to be wild type, but the other half are light grey with transparent or possibly no eyes. I was wondering if anyone could give me a hint as to what morph the second half is? All of the eggs were brown/black so I was not expecting any hatchlings to be albino, could they be leucistic? The eyes are just really throwing me off...

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Super cool photos!
It might be that they were born eyeless, but you have quite a few without the appearance of eyes. I have a melanistic (I think) axolotl who, when I got him, had no eyes. He then developed them over time, so that may also be the case.
Good luck figuring this out!
 
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It’s probably albinos since they’re too small at this stage to see their eyes. Mine did the same thing.
 
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Thanks guys!
They're now about 2 inches long and they have eyes!!! They were just albino but now they are beautiful and with functional eyes. I was really shocked to get the variety out of this group that I did. I semi-expecting all wild types!
 

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