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Axolotl colours

Kudos

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My golden albino female axolotl (George) and wildtype male (Kai) bred last year.
Out of the 50 babies i raised
2 were grey, they have a sort of leucistic coloured blueish black eyes, they began as a purple colour and the one i kept has gone darker grey now.
1 was white with leucistic eyes
about 10 were black
half of the rest were yellow with the gold ring around their eyes the axies later turned a brown colour
the other half began as brown and turned much darker as they aged (nearly black with an olive sheen)

(all eggs started as white looking so the other wildtype female that was in the tank couldn't be a part of the family)

My question is.... how can i get this many colour variations from just two parents?
 

sherylbobbins

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Oh em gee! It's Sarge, Eclipse and Aphro's mummy! Fatten up George.. she was cooler when she was obese. We should breed Sarge and/or Eclipse with a golden albino and see what we get *nod*
 
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    with axolotls would I basically have to keep buying and buying new axolotls to prevent inbred breeding which costs a lot of money??
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