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Green and yellow axolotl baby
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indeed, it is tiny at the moment about 6 - 7 mm, it is being kept separate with one that is very similar but with a white head and white stripe down its belly. These two are also being kept slightly warmer than the rest so that hopefully i can space out my efforts with feeding and worrying etc
i will keep updates going with these ones
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Thats a cool colour but most of mine changed colour greatly conparred to what they look like in the eggs. Yours may turn into a 'common' colour unfortunately for you
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Yes it may very well be a type of wildtype. Colour variation does change as they grow/mature. All our greeny gold looking larvae were wildtypes (some became very dark wildtypes with the odd few brown spots; some dark brown wildtypes; and some dark with grey colouring on the sides as they became adults). Some of the leucistic larvae had a yellowy tinge to them. It can take several weeks before you know what type they actually are and even when they reach adulthood/sexual maturity their colour changes.
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I'm going with wildtype as well. Leucistics and wildtypes look very similar in the egg, and as Kapo said, they definitely change color as they grow.
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Update on the gree and yellow axolotl baby
I will be getting a photo soon, but if anyone recalls the green and yellow axolotl in the egg? Well it is now about 1 and a half centimeters long and is now silver. Not white, not wildtype, and definitely not melanoid.
It is bright silver with black eyes
I will be getting a photo soon, but if anyone recalls the green and yellow axolotl in the egg? Well it is now about 1 and a half centimeters long and is now silver. Not white, not wildtype, and definitely not melanoid.
It is bright silver with black eyes
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Hi Neurus
It's still early days before you'll know the exact type of axolotl you have. At this young an age it can go either way - wildtype/leucistic (white with dark eyes) or melanoid. You really won't know until it develops more. There are many types of wildtype colourings, if you check out photo gallery. Predominantly in Australia I notice their wildtypes tend to be light coloured (a caramel or mocha brown, even gold looking ones) whereas in NZ we tend to have the darks coloured - browns/blacks and grey looking wildtypes.
Some of the larvae I currently have that were olive/gold coloured prior to hatching - their colouring has also changed, a few retained the olive colouring, some have become very dark and some are still silver (all with dark eyes), so are more likely to be wildtype. Parents are golden albino and dark wildtype.
It's still early days before you'll know the exact type of axolotl you have. At this young an age it can go either way - wildtype/leucistic (white with dark eyes) or melanoid. You really won't know until it develops more. There are many types of wildtype colourings, if you check out photo gallery. Predominantly in Australia I notice their wildtypes tend to be light coloured (a caramel or mocha brown, even gold looking ones) whereas in NZ we tend to have the darks coloured - browns/blacks and grey looking wildtypes.
Some of the larvae I currently have that were olive/gold coloured prior to hatching - their colouring has also changed, a few retained the olive colouring, some have become very dark and some are still silver (all with dark eyes), so are more likely to be wildtype. Parents are golden albino and dark wildtype.
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I thought Leucistic to start with but it is bright silver with a little gold. The eyes certainly suggest leucistic but i have some larvae that are definitely leucistic which are all white with black eyes, this one is different
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Have you raised leucistic larvae before? For that matter, raised any newly hatched larvae before? There is always variation. It's dangerous to draw any conclusions on variations early on.
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The slight hints of yellow do seem strange for a leucistic. Then again, it could be a very light wild type, some are yellow with brown spots, but leucistics can hatch out very dark (almost black) and in a couple weeks be almost white, so like has been already said, it's too early to get excited.