Quick question about genetics

[lovesheraxies]

My golden albino and my leucistic mated, 4 days ago my Penny laid roughly 500 eggs. Their parents are leucistic and black melanoid. I'm just wondering what possible color variants I could possibly end up with?

I tried to understand the genetics page but it's all so confusing to me so anything straight forward would be great! Thanx!

 

[auntiejude]

Unless you know what the parents, silblings and possibly the grandparents of your axies are there is no way to predict accurately what the babies will be.

Both your axies could be carrying recessive genes, so your babies could be almost any colour. But I would expect a good proportion to be wild type as those genes are dominant.

If you post what the babies are when they are old enough to determine I (and others here!) may be able to help determine the genetics of the parents.

 

[Possum63]

Sorry, your post has confused me!

Do you mean the parents of the freshly laid eggs are golden albino and leucistic, and the parents of the golden albino and leucistic (Who just created the eggs) are melanoid and leusistic? Does this mean the two that mated are siblings?

Clear this up and I can try explain the basic genetics to try attempt your eggs colours

 

[lovesheraxies]

Jess, you are correct. I have since removed the female and put her in another tank.

 

[mikeg]

If i understand genetics correctly that means that the Axolotls you have that are siblings have at least golden albino, leucistic ( that's what your axies are) and melaniod ( that's what the other parent that's not leucistic is) genetics. I believe with this information the babies will turn out mostly leucistic then golden then melaniod with a few other genetic lines like wild type which a common genetic in axies that you may not know they carry. Also from what iv heard because they are siblings the eggs may develop at a low hatch/survival rate or even not at all.


Although i could be wrong.

 

[PatchworkClocks]

If i understand genetics correctly that means that the Axolotls you have that are siblings have at least golden albino, leucistic ( that's what your axies are) and melaniod ( that's what the other parent that's not leucistic is) genetics. I believe with this information the babies will turn out mostly leucistic then golden then melaniod with a few other genetic lines like wild type which a common genetic in axies that you may not know they carry. Also from what iv heard because they are siblings the eggs may develop at a low hatch/survival rate or even not at all.


Although i could be wrong.

Inbreeding that causes low hatch and survival rates usually only affects the eggs after two or more generations of inbreeding. This is under the assumption that this is the first case of inbreeding in this situation.

 

[lovesheraxies]

Yes, def the first time, not planned either, they are only a year old but pretty much full grown at 10 inches each. Out of the 500 eggs I've counted I'd say about 450 are actually changing shape and developing, it's really quite crazy but I also know not all will survive the hatching process. I do know that the parents who had mine had every type of axolotl color there is.

 

[auntiejude]

I do know that the parents who had mine had every type of axolotl color there is.

In that case you could get any color babies. You have all the recessive genes covered, but you could get wild types too.