Is my Axie sick?? Help

[sboehringer]

I am newer to the axolotl world. We have had our wild type, Axel, for about a year now. I’m concerned about his sides turning white. Is this something to get concerned about?? He is eating and acting normally.

 

[Autistic Catholic]

Is it possible you have an enigma type? They are sold only in the U.S. and yours looks like it is developing patterns closely akin to an enigma type.

 

[Autistic Catholic]

I don't know when this article was written, I presume old as I've also googled that Enigmas usually sell for around $200 but here is something to read about the description of an Enigma axolotl:

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The description matches your photo very well. If the seller marked it as a wild type and sold you an enigma for the price of a wild, then you may have possibly just gotten the steal of a century, possible a millennium.

 

[sboehringer]

Is it possible you have an enigma type? They are sold only in the U.S. and yours looks like it is developing patterns closely akin to an enigma type.

It’s quite possible my husband picked him up from a pet store and wasn’t told what type it was. We just assumed it was a wild type due to how he looked.

 

[Autistic Catholic]

It’s quite possible my husband picked him up from a pet store and wasn’t told what type it was. We just assumed it was a wild type due to how he looked.

Do you know how old he was when you got him? Very intriguing you got him at a pet store. The patterns are indeed matching of an enigma type and I am strongly inclined to say yours is of the super-rare enigma type variety.

 

[sboehringer]

Do you know how old he was when you got him? Very intriguing you got him at a pet store. The patterns are indeed matching of an enigma type and I am strongly inclined to say yours is of the super-rare enigma type variety.

No he was pretty small. We were assuming a couple months old. He is probably about a year old now.

 

[Autistic Catholic]

No he was pretty small. We were assuming a couple months old. He is probably about a year old now.

Hmmm...I hope others can possibly weigh in on the morph but it certainly has the coloration of an enigma right now...