What colour is your axolotl?

I have 2 golden albino female, 1 albino male with dark eyes and 1 wild type male.
 
I have a male Golden Albino called Monaro.
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I previously had two wild-types (Toki and Lotus) and a leucistic (Bogain).
 
I have a dark chocolate axolotl named Herbetta (originally Herbie, til I found out she was female :p) whose roughly a year and 1/2 old. Then there's Kasey, who was supposed to be a white axolotl but turned out being a light colored wildtype. He's more of a grey/brown with tons of little spots all over and has gold eyes. I had really wanted an axolotl some type of color other than wildtype, so I decided on a whim to purchase an albino axolotl which I named Cayenne. Both Cayenne and Kasey are roughly 7 months old.
 
Chrisy, to get the gold eyes, it has to be some type of albino. quite possibly a color variation of a golden albino.

that being said, i think i like the wildtypes. they're cute... and leucistics... as soon as the boyfriend gets brave enough to let me keep "slimy pets", the collection will grow to Tim size proportions
 
Opps, I probably worded what I said wrong :p I had meant that the store that I purchased them from didn't know how to tell the difference between the types of axolotls, so they sent me the wrong one. Genetically Kasey is probably supposed to be a wildtype, but I had paid for/requested a white one. So, be careful... make sure they know what you mean and exactly how to tell the difference before putting down any extra money for special requests :p

I think the leucistics are the best looking, but wildtypes tend to be more "fun" only cause they usually always look totally different from one another
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It sort of gives them more character.
 
I have a male white albino, a female golden albino and just recently got a young female black axie with a marble patterning on her stomach, im not sure what that's classified as :p
 
my partner's whopper Muff is currently lodging in my big tank - he's 11" of black loveliness with a grey belly
in the small tank are 2 golden albinos and one white one called Snork, Tallulah and Hemulen - all babies from Claire's latest brood

i saw a really nice looking grey one in a shop in birmingham on saturday, it had grey gills with black filaments and a yellowy snout
 
i have two axolotls
a wild type about 20cm who is preety chubby
and a goldern one who is about 11cm
their names are honkermon and gropatope
 
We have two axolotls - one wild-type (Wally), one leucistic (Peely); photos in the gallery. Peely has six toes on his rear right leg and a couple of branched gills.

When selecting them, we didn't really have a colour preference - they were chosen on the basis of their activity levels at the time (they're refugees from a university biology department I used to work at).
 
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    @Thorninmyside, I Lauren chen
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