What color will they be?

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I got some eggs from someone else. The developing eggs were white with a light blueish shade. When they grew bigger, they developed a little pigmentation and the eyes were not very visible. The day before hatching I noticed that some had dark eyes and were more pigmentated than the others who were just white with light eyes. And the white blueish color.

I'm on my cell phone right now so I can't post pics at this very moment.

But they've hatched, they're 5 days old and they all have pigmentation and dark eyes. The bellies of some larvae are still light blue and about 5 hatchlings are lighter (more light blue all over) than the others but with pigmentation and dark eyes.

Will they be wildtypes? If yes, I thought all wildtype eggs were dark. If not, what can they be? Or leucistics? But I guess they're pretty dark to become leucistics...

I don't really know for sure but I thought the parents were golden albino and leucistic melanoid. They were the parents of the previous set of eggs I've received from the same person. They have shiny eyerings as far as I can see... So that won't make them melanoids...

I'm curious :lol:
And I'll post a picture soon but maybe you can already help me out?
 
My albino babies were grey when they were first hatched, the wildtypes pale (translucent) with a few freckles. Text books say it can take a few weeks to develop a real colour type.
Eggs laid by a wildtype are black, eggs laid by an albino are white - babies can develop into any colour whatever the color of the eggs.

Please post when you get some pics - I bet they are really cute!
 
Thanks!
Alrighty, here are some pics (sorry for the cwappy quality):
 

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These all look wild type to me, from their probable parentage they should be carriers of leucistic, albino, and melanoid.
 
Ha, I knew they were pretty wildtype'ish! :D
Thanks
 
They are all 'cute-type'!
I'd say lighter wild-type too.
 
Ooh, lighter wildtype :) That makes them even more 'cute-typey'.
 
My little ones have almost the same coloring....I was wondering what color morph this would be considered. :)
 
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