Stumped on coloration. Any ideas?

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So I was doing water changes on some of my larvae tonight, and noticed a couple of odd colors I can't quite distinguish. At first glance, they appear to be leucistic, but have copperish colored iridiphores on their bodies. They also have specs of light color down their bodies and along their fins (when very small I thought they were possibly W.T.) Their eyes are dark with the light reactive ring, but when the light is directly on them, they appear red, instead of the usual green color I see in others. I have a few like this. Any ideas? (sorry for the dark/blurry pictures. She/he was not photogenic tonight) :happy:
 

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The last picture seems like it may be GFP, but the other two look like the early stages of leucistics :) If they have freckles, they're probably freckled leucistics and one possible GFP leucistic, if it does normally look greenish like that. Here's a picture of some leucistics at about the same size yours are; they look very similar in color. Hopefully this helps!
 
I dont mean to stir up trouble or make you panic but my baby lottles went that colour and died shortly after. Hopefully they are just leucistic.

The last one defo looks like a GFP though!
 
OH WAIT! Red eyes is a sign of copper axolotls! I just read it somewhere today. That could be possible. Hopefully not a sign of sad axolotl endings :<
 
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