I've had my axolotls for a quite sometime now, however I recently purchased a new one that has these amazing bright teal eyes. My boyfriend and I researched to see if there was any other reports of bright teal eyed Axolotls, but we haven't found any. Has anyone seen eye color such as this? (the picture isn't the greatest, I'll try taking a better one and posting it)
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Axolotl eye color?
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Your axolotl is a GFP (green fluorescent protein). It means that he contains a gene, that was artifitially introduced from a jellyfish, that produces fluorescence. The color you see is this fluorescence shinning through the transparent tissues of the eye. If you put your animal under a black light it will glow.
I know noone´s asked...but personally i find this alteration to be objectionable.
I know noone´s asked...but personally i find this alteration to be objectionable.
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This is new to me. Quite bizarre.
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It's definitely a GFP...I also have a melanoid GFP axoltl. The lovely green eyes are a dead giveaway. I have an "night time" blue light mode on my LED light that shows off his greenish glow. It's pretty cool 
Usually you have to pay a little more for a GFP axie over the "regular" types....consider yourself lucky!
Here's a baby pic...unfortunately the Melanoid "cannibal" ate one of the legs and a couple gills off his slightly smaller albino GFP tank mate... it was getting better for a few days in isolation then it passed away after a power outage of 8 hours
Usually you have to pay a little more for a GFP axie over the "regular" types....consider yourself lucky!Here's a baby pic...unfortunately the Melanoid "cannibal" ate one of the legs and a couple gills off his slightly smaller albino GFP tank mate... it was getting better for a few days in isolation then it passed away after a power outage of 8 hours
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Azhael said:
lol, i was reading your post and expecting this comment.
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Uhm, I have a question about this to
My white axie has this blue eyes to, you can't see it in the pictures on my profile, but I can see it very clearly.
However, I got 2 from thesame litter, 1 wildtype and 1 white or melanoid i believe
The wildtype doesn't seem to have blue eyes, they are just regular black
Could it be he didn't get this green protein? even though it's thesame litter
I understood a blacklight is required to make them go green? that would actually be kinda awesome in the evening
My white axie has this blue eyes to, you can't see it in the pictures on my profile, but I can see it very clearly.
However, I got 2 from thesame litter, 1 wildtype and 1 white or melanoid i believe
The wildtype doesn't seem to have blue eyes, they are just regular black
Could it be he didn't get this green protein? even though it's thesame litter
I understood a blacklight is required to make them go green? that would actually be kinda awesome in the evening