Photo: Axolotls changing color

[keiko]

My wild type used to be light color when she was small but over a period of a couple of months she became almost black. I've asked some people and it seems that changing color is somewhat common especially with wild types.

It would be interesting to see photos how your axies' color has changed over time.

 

[auntiejude]

Wildtypes and melanoids often get darker with age, golden albinos get yellower, patterns change on leucistics. All normal.

We've even seen wildtypes lose most of their colour and end up looking leucistic.

 

[Boomsloth]

Tomorrow I'll post pics of my wild types changing. Only a few changed from dark to lighter when on the lighter surface so I'll have to figure out which ones are the chameleons lol

 

[xxianxx]

I find that my wildtypes kept outside in heavily planted dim tanks go a lot darker and greener, they lighten up quite a bit when placed in a lighter tank.

 

[allied123]

Keiko that axolotl is absolutely gorgeous both ways! but now she looks like the softest velvet I would love one like that I'm so jealous! please people post pictures of these awesome color changes!

 

[HayleyK]

This is Carlos, top photo being the first day I got him and the bottom the other day (ignore the fungus, poor baby is all better now). She's gone from a almost bluey- green to dark with very pretty iridophores that keep getting brighter and more pronounced.

 

[HayleyK]

This is Pedro, top was a couple of months ago bottom about 2 weeks ago. I'm especially sad about this one as he was very beautiful and yellowish as a juvy then she went really dark . Still absolutely adorable and such a character, just a little bummed. I know the lighting is different but it's still a change.

 

[keiko]

This is Pedro, top was a couple of months ago bottom about 2 weeks ago. I'm especially sad about this one as he was very beautiful and yellowish as a juvy then she went really dark . Still absolutely adorable and such a character, just a little bummed. I know the lighting is different but it's still a change.

Both of your axies are adorable, now and before. But I know what you mean, I love the color my baby copper is now but I'm afraid it'll get darker when she gets older. Hopefully it won't be as drastic as with my wild type.

 

[AnnaBingham]

Keiko how old was your axie when it started drastically changing colour?
One of my axies is a similar light greeny colour to your "before photo", hes around 7 months old.

 

[keiko]

Keiko how old was your axie when it started drastically changing colour?
One of my axies is a similar light greeny colour to your "before photo", hes around 7 months old.

I think she was around 4-5 months. It took 1-2 months for the color to change and after that she's been that dark color. At least so far.

 

[Bette]

My wild type used to be light color when she was small but over a period of a couple of months she became almost black. I've asked some people and it seems that changing color is somewhat common especially with wild types.

It would be interesting to see photos how your axies' color has changed over time.

That's an amazing change!

 

[Boomsloth]

Hey sorry it took so long. Busy with work and forgot I had a filter soaking in my tub to be cleaned out. Didn't get as dramatic a change in my sink but you can see the melanophores retreating.

 

[keiko]

Hey sorry it took so long. Busy with work and forgot I had a filter soaking in my tub to be cleaned out. Didn't get as dramatic a change in my sink but you can see the melanophores retreating.

That is still an obvious change. How long did it take for their color to start to change after moving to the tub?

In my tank I have a very dark background so I wonder if that had anything to do with my wild type changing so drastically. She actually blends in the background almost completely now.
Sorry the picture is bad, but the top is a side view of my wild type in front of the background and the bottom is just taken from the top to prove she really is there.

 

[Boomsloth]

That is still an obvious change. How long did it take for their color to start to change after moving to the tub?



In my tank I have a very dark background so I wonder if that had anything to do with my wild type changing so drastically. She actually blends in the background almost completely now.

Sorry the picture is bad, but the top is a side view of my wild type in front of the background and the bottom is just taken from the top to prove she really is there.

That's a little under an hour and it was in the sink since my tub had been used recently to clean out an old filter. When I noticed the change in the tub before they had been in overnight but I can't leave axolotls in the sink lol

 

[rachel1]

My wildtype also darkened a lot as he matured. He looks like a melanoid now, except he has 4 or 5 irridiphores.
First pic as a juvie, second now.

 

[Hollystark]

My boy Mulder was very pale with large spaces between spots as a baby.

He's still light as a 2.5 year old, but colored more evenly, almost a little copperish.

 

[snuggly time]

Here's my leucistic, Wooper...

Freckly.

Frecklier.

Zorro.

 

[Zandy94]

Yeah my boy has been doing this too. I've had him for over a week and he looks a lot darker from the photos the keeper sent me. He's a wild type too, he has spots but he's becoming a dark blueish-greenish-gray and his gills are turning dark red the lighting in this pic is bright so we could get a good photo but normally he's darker.

 

[mewsie]

That is a beautiful photo!

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