Axolotl Colours in Australia
Axolotl colours, or morphs, describe the pigment an animal carries. Each one has its own look, its own price band and, in a couple of cases, its own care requirements. Here is every morph we breed in Australia and what to expect from it.
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Axolotl colours available now in Australia
White axolotl For Sale
White axolotls, properly called leucistic, are the pale pink and white animals with dark eyes and bright red gills. This is the axolotl most people picture, and the morph we raise the most of.
7 available now in Australia, from $80 AUD
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Black axolotl For Sale
Black axolotls are the dark morphs, covering both true melanoids and the grey toned axanthics. They are the strongest looking axolotls in a planted tank and the easiest to photograph badly.
5 available now in Australia, from $80 AUD
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Copper axolotl For Sale
Copper axolotls are the warm brown morph, ranging from pale caramel to a rich reddish copper with fine dark freckling. They hold their colour well and are one of the most consistently available morphs we raise.
8 available now in Australia, from $85 AUD
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Wild type axolotl For Sale
Wild type axolotls carry the natural colouring of the species, a dark olive body flecked with gold. This is the original Mexican walking fish, and the hardiest morph you can start with.
3 available now in Australia, from $70 AUD
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GFP axolotl For Sale
GFP axolotls carry a green fluorescent protein gene that makes them glow green under blue light. By daylight they look like any other morph. In a dark room with a blue torch they are something else entirely.
11 available now in Australia, from $120 AUD
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We raise these morphs too, but none are ready to travel at the moment. Clutches do not produce every colour evenly, so availability moves around. Each page below explains the morph and lets you join the waitlist for the next one.
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Albino axolotl
Albino axolotls are the pale, pink toned morph with clear golden eyes and no dark pigment anywhere on the body. They are one of the most requested colours in Australia and one of the least often available.
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Golden axolotl
Golden axolotls are the warm yellow to amber morph, a form of albino that carries iridophores. They are the brightest coloured axolotl you can keep and among the most striking under tank lighting.
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Mosaic axolotl
Mosaic axolotls are the rarest axolotl you can buy, patched with two different colours across the same body. They cannot be bred to order and no two are alike.
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How to choose an axolotl colour
Colour is the part everyone starts with, but it is worth working through three questions before you settle on a morph.
Do you want to see the animal easily? Pale morphs like white leucistics and albinos stand out in almost any tank, while a black axolotl against dark sand can be hard to pick out unless the lighting is planned around it.
How much do you want to fuss over feeding? Albinos and goldens have very poor eyesight and need target feeding with tongs. Wild types and coppers see normally and will find food themselves, which makes them noticeably easier for a first animal.
What is your budget? Wild types start lowest, leucistics and GFP animals sit in the middle, and genuine mosaics are several times the price of anything else. The full breakdown is on our axolotl price Australia page.
Colours that change as the animal grows
Most morphs do not look the same at four months as they will at two years. Coppers and wild types deepen and their patterning sharpens. Leucistics often develop extra speckling. Goldens brighten toward amber and can pick up iridescent flecking. Only GFP fluorescence stays essentially constant, because it comes from a protein rather than a pigment that develops with age.
That matters when you are buying from photographs. Judge the animal on gill fullness and body condition, which tell you how it was raised, and treat colour as the thing that will improve.
Buying axolotls by colour in Australia
Every animal on this site is bred in our Victoria hatchery, photographed individually and listed once. We deliver to Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and every mainland state, with a live arrival guarantee on every order. New to axolotls entirely? Start with are axolotls good pets and the axolotl care guide.
What if the colour you want is not listed
Because each listing is one animal, a morph can be there in the morning and gone by the evening, and some colours only appear a couple of times a year. If the one you have your heart set on is not on the site today, join the waitlist for that morph and we will email you the day one is ready, before it goes public. There is no deposit and no obligation.
Axolotl colour questions
How many axolotl colours are there?
There are around a dozen recognised axolotl colours, or morphs. The eight we breed cover the ones Australian keepers actually ask for: albino, white leucistic, black, golden, copper, mosaic, wild type and GFP. Others are variations or combinations of these.
What is the rarest axolotl colour?
The mosaic. It comes from two fertilised cells fusing during development rather than from a gene, so it cannot be bred deliberately and every one is unique. Chimeras, split down the midline, are rarer again.
Which axolotl colour is best for a beginner?
Wild type or copper. Both keep full eyesight, so they hunt food across the tank without being target fed, and they tolerate small water parameter swings better than the pale albino morphs.
Do axolotls change colour as they grow?
Most do. Coppers, wild types and dark morphs generally deepen over the first twelve months, and leucistics can develop extra speckling. Albinos and goldens tend to brighten rather than darken.
See what is available today
Stock changes as each clutch grows out. Every listing is a single animal with its own photos and measurements, and once it sells we do not restock it.