Ooooooh I just love Mendelian genetics!
Okay, first, Jade: You could get ANYTHING from that cross unless you know something about your axolotls' parents. Interesting color morphs in axies are all based on recessive genes (as far as I know!), which means that as long as the animal has one copy of the normal gene sequence you won't see any difference -- your wild-type animal could be carrying the alleles for leucistic, melanoid, or golden babies and you'd never know it without breeding it with the right partner. Leucistics have two copies of the recessive allele controlling melanophore migration, so if you bred two leucistics together you would only get leucistic babies. But, again, you don't know their genotypes for the other colors, you only know they have ONE copy of the normal gene variant.
melr70: Congratulations, your wild-type axie is heterozygous for the leucistic gene.
You'd expect just about a 50/50 split of babies in that situation, vs. all wild-type offspring if that animal had two copies of the wild-type gene.
Rachel: I don't understand how copper works, so I can't speak to that cross. There's a thread where Ollie mentions thinking it's a weak melanin-production enzyme, which would make it recessive. But based on your leucistic/wild mating's offspring, the wild-type parent's genotype must be Dd Aa (heterozygous for leucistic and for golden albino) and the leucistic parent's must be dd Aa. The ratios aren't perfect, but 9 is a small enough number that random variation will play a significant part in what we see.
