Why do people not love wildtypes?

[Petersgirl]

It's weird but I find I don't really have a favourite. I like to see healthy 'mixes,' like Harlequins and Chimeras, simply because it feels a bit like 'the best of both,' with the beautiful white side then the deliciously dark side. I find I like all of them differently, for different reasons.

 

[Bette]

It's weird but I find I don't really have a favourite. I like to see healthy 'mixes,' like Harlequins and Chimeras, simply because it feels a bit like 'the best of both,' with the beautiful white side then the deliciously dark side. I find I like all of them differently, for different reasons.

I agree 100%!

 

[Boomsloth]

Here's a pic of three wild types from the same clutch of eggs showing a nice range in colors. As they grow they will probably end up all dark but who knows

 

[DragonGirl]

I just got my first axo a few days ago. I had originally been looking for a little while, and all I seemed to see were leucistic and occasionally an albino or golden. And honestly I have always had a thing for the darker ones. So I was hoping to find a wild type or melanoid. So when I went into the store to look at what foods they had and saw a little wild type GFP I just had to have him. (or her. too young to tell). I don't really know how people can discriminate against the types because they are all so cute. I've had people who don't know much about axolotls say they "like the pink ones better because you can see their smiles and they don't look so scary"

 

[keiko]

I'm currently raising my first batch of babies and I'm definitely most exited to see how the wild types develop. Unfortunately there are only two wild types, but hopefully one of them will end up with some yellow in them so I can get one of those in my tank too (looking quite yellow so far).

 

[Petersgirl]

So cute! Good luck, Keiko. It's hard work but well worth it!

 

[LSuzuki]

I think the main reason I don't "like" wild types is that I haven't actually seen them, and photos may not do them justice. The only live one I have seen was at a LFS, and I deliberately didn't look carefully at it since I did not want to buy from the LFS. (It was kept with tropical fish in a tank with gravel.) However, I recently saw some mud puppies, (Necturus maculosus, I think), and they were gorgeous, much more so than the pictures I see on the internet, so perhaps the same is true of wild type axies. (Leucistic, melanoid, and albino types seem to be well-depicted by their photos.)