What Genotype Are These Cuties?!?

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I have 303 of these hatchlings, the father a leucistic and mother a golden albino.
Absolutley every single baby has the dark eyes-not albino..ad they ALL are this yellow with dark speckles.
To me, they don't seem to be quite leucistic or quite wild. They're almost a month old and 1 inch long with their arms grown in and legs just starting to.

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They look like what mine looked like at that size :) these little ones will be wildtypes or at least from what I know,you'll see them change quite a bit once their backlegs are in .

before mine grew their front limbs they looked like speckled leucistics but then grew more colour and spots but one of them stayed white with some spots but then lost the spots as it grew and the two wildtypes also are unique to each other as one is darker but before they looked identical lol :D
 
They're all wildtypes, A/a, D/d.

Here's why: the father is A/A (non-albino), d/d (white). The mother is a/a (albino), D/D (not white). Since all of the offspring are dark, we can assume the father is not a carrier of albinism, and the mother does not carry leucism.
 
Iridophores are normal and common on wildtypes.

These guys look very typical of juvenile wildtypes. I see nothing that would make me think otherwise.
 
Awesome! Thanks so much, I wasn't sure. A lot of them have been losing their spots while others stay dark - it's kind of weird considering the genetics say they're all supposed to be wild. Here, I'll show you.

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