Do these colours exhist?

[teesha]

i was trying to figure out the axys i could buy that would give me the highest percentage of different offspring....I was lazy so i asked round, but i was bored today so i figured it out...i wonder if they exhist tho. To get 50% of each (dominant and recessive) i discovered one parent must be heterozygous for a triat and the other parent must me homozygous recessive for that same triat. So i've created the "potential most colourful babies" parents...:
d/d m/m a/a ax/ax and D/d M/m A/a Ax/ax
but these make it hard to tell whats what ( coz it hides another colour or something..... like you have...well i dun really no...i confused me a bit.)
then i thought how about have a type of leucistic one:
d/d m/m A/a ax/ax with D/d M/m a/a AX/ax
i just wanted to confirm that by having an albino (a/a) Does it affect any other expression of colour?? Like is it still shiny? It shouldn't affect it by what i know.... So i figured my chances are quite high if i get a phenotypical parent thats a luecistic type (white with dark spots on top half, not shiny, not yellow) and cross it with a Golden albino (that is shiny and has no dark pigment and even colouration)
Now i realise i could end up with a d/d m/m A/A ax/ax and a D/D M/M a/a AX/AX....which will give me no leucistic, melanoid, albino or axanthic offspring unless crossing over occurs....
Please if any of you guys... ( namely Joan...lol) Find any errors in this please tell me! I mean i'll love my axys no matter what colour but it doesn't hurt to have many different types of coloured young!!! If any of you guys have any comments please also state them!!! thanx all! I hope that wasn't too gibberish for y'all!
ps.. is it axanthic? or xanthic? And is it leucistic...i'm 99% sure it is!!

 

[joan]

Albinos allow whatever A/x gene the other parent has to be expressed. If the other parent is A/A, then you'll have no albinos, if the other parent is A/a, 50% albinos, and if the other parent is albino, you'll have all albinos.

The genes are all inherited independently, so being albino will not affect leucistism, melanism, or axanthism. Axanthism is the lack of yellow. A- is the prefix in latin meaning 'lacking', so ax/ax are axanthic.

Again, unless you know the exact genotype of the parents (which is hard unless you breed them yourself or know the person who did breed them), you're likely to just get a mixture of babies, not necessarily what you want.

 

[teesha]

Thanx Joan. I'm getting mine from a reputable petshop so I realise i'm only taking a stab in the dark. But theoredically if i cross the parents as i said above i should get (x representing any chromatophore, ie; iridophores) 50% X/x and 50% x/x. This should create some strange combinations.... like a M/m d/d A/a ax/ax.....or a m/m d/d a/a AX/ax.
yeh well anyways, it should give me a very varied offspring. I just love to breed and genetics is so amazing to me. I'm in my first year on Animal Technology so it's very interesting, haven't started genetics yet though...
Anywayz....i was thinking, do you know of anybody or petshop that actually has a pedigree for axolotls??? I think it's unherd of unless as you said, Joan, that you actually know the breeder. Anywayz, thanx!