What color is my Axolotl?

[axolotlfreak56]

As the title says, what color is it classified as? I want to say its axanthic albino, but I'm really not sure. I bought a golden albino and "white" albino from Michael Shrom (who is really awesome by the way ) and he told me the albino is a "Golden" white albino. That said, I tried looking for pictures but I can't seem to find any that match my little guy's color. There's a leusistic next to him as well, so the difference in coloration should be very obvious.

For both pictures, I tweaked with the brightness and contrast and saturation just a tiny bit so the pictures could be more clear.

 

[JayFaye]

Looks golden to me!

 

[michael]

It's tough to say (at least for me) sometimes with the little ones. Some of my golds and whites do get real pale. I don't look for iridiphores and closely analyse the colors. I work with gold albino, white albino, leucistic, melanoid, wild type, gfp of each type, and all kinds of odd mixes. If I have melanoids with lots of speckling I'm apt to call them wild type because they look more like what people expect as wild type. If I have axolotls with yellow color I call them gold albino. Some of my golds stay bright and some turn to an eerie pale yellow color. As they age it becomes easier to tell what genotype or at least phenotype they are.

 

[kezzbag]

hmm i got some gold types cooking lol, do they change colour slightly as they grow? xx

 

[SludgeMunkey]

One is leucistic, the other is a xanthic* albino

The axolotl site has a really good explanation of axolotl colors...with pictures....

* that's the old school term I refuse to let go of because it sounds "cool' to me.