Ashlimarie83
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My het copper female and GFP het copper/ het golden albino axolotls bred and I have been raising my first clutch of 100+ eggs for about 2 months now.
They are growing wonderfully besides a few food mishaps (darn you brineshrimp and darn you black worms!!), but the colors they seem to be expressing and not at all what I would have expected.
After a few difficult punnet squares (working in that weird copper gene!) I thought I should have gotten roughly 25% copper and golden albino and the rest wild. But to my confusion I seem to have about 30% leucistics, 15% golden and white albinos, only 5% coppers, and the rest various shades of wildtype (with a few odd looking greyish wildtypes?).
Any insight on my larvae?
Couldn't load all of them so here is a link to the album on imgur.
Axolotls growing - Album on Imgur
They are growing wonderfully besides a few food mishaps (darn you brineshrimp and darn you black worms!!), but the colors they seem to be expressing and not at all what I would have expected.
After a few difficult punnet squares (working in that weird copper gene!) I thought I should have gotten roughly 25% copper and golden albino and the rest wild. But to my confusion I seem to have about 30% leucistics, 15% golden and white albinos, only 5% coppers, and the rest various shades of wildtype (with a few odd looking greyish wildtypes?).
Any insight on my larvae?
Couldn't load all of them so here is a link to the album on imgur.
Axolotls growing - Album on Imgur
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