Question: Baby Axolotl colouring?

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Hello all,
I am new to the Axolotl world but we are so in love with our little lotls. We recently had our first lot of babies and just curious as to what colouration we have. They all literally look the same! Mum is a Golden and dad is a Leucy. Any response would be awesome. They are all so very cute! Hatching started august 11th. Photos below which show what majority of them look like :)

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They look like golden albinos but they could be different considering the line of genetics and mixed alleles.
 
They are definitively not albinos since they bear black colour on eyes and body. They look like wild types.
I once had this result with the cross between a leucy and a golden albino.
The next generation can normally bring wildtypes, golden albinos, leucistics and albino leucies.
 
They are definitively not albinos since they bear black colour on eyes and body. They look like wild types.
I once had this result with the cross between a leucy and a golden albino.
The next generation can normally bring wildtypes, golden albinos, leucistics and albino leucies.
thanks so much, yeh all of them have black eyes, some have a shiny ring around them and others don’t.
I’ve separated them but the containers are coloured so hopefully these photos are easier to see patterns :) I can’t wait for them to get bigger.
 

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Knowing now that the containers are colored, I am going to have to say wild. It's possible if these survive to adulthood and lay a clutch, you may get leucistic and golden albinos in their mix (don't breed siblings, obviously).

If the wild type genome is the dominant trait, then this is expected.
 
Yes, you have wilds. All this means is that each parent does not carry the recessive gene of the other (aka, your leucistic does not carry the albinism gene and your golden albino does not carry the leucistic gene). It does mean, however, that all of the babies are het for both traits.

Quick description of the affected genes:
Father: A/A, d/d
Mother: a/a, D/D
Babies: A/a, D/d

From your description that some babies have the shiny eye rings and others do not it's likely that both parents are M/m. It's possible that one is m/m, but since you didn't mention that either are melanoid, I'm assuming they're not
 
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