Golden Okeetee or Long term project.
I can't say weather or not these are a new morph, but they look almost identical to the rejects of a long-term project I have been working on. I am trying to work away from those dirty grays, and produce a smoother gray background coloration in both a dark phase and a light phase. I am assuming other breeders have been working on the same project secretly and like myself keep the best specimens and sell off the less desirables as just nondescript corns (so, not to give their project away) I have acquired several specimens to add to my project this way. Since the cat is sort of out of the bag already, I'll post a picture of one of my light phase specimens. I am in the process of taking pictures of my breeders from this project and only have this light phase pictured so far. I am hoping to debut these this coming season. This has been over a decade long project for me and I’m sure for my like-minded peers. I also have a beautiful striped specimen of this morph and many offshoot combinations. I will hopefully be proving out whether or not the specimens I acquired that look like the specimen a few post below are indeed the same as my project or potentially a new morph as people are saying, Note that the similar Corns I acquired came from various sources/sales all unknown histories other than pet shops and unknown private individuals I have run across, and not from the breeders marketing them as Goldens. So the similar specimens I have, cannot be traced back to the source of theirs. I would guess that the other big breeders aren't buying these up because like suggested they held on to all the project animals that would move them closer towards their final goal and quietly sold off the rest which were later acquired by individuals who realized they were something new to the market. This is purely a hypothetical guess on my part and I in no way want to offend anyone. I am also not claiming that they don’t indeed have a new morph. I don’t know enough history on their end. I just know that I have had many sub-adults over the years that looked identical to the picture in the earlier post. And I have come across several randomly for sale that were apparently mislabeled or more correctly put, under labeled.
. When Carston originally posted the info and pic it generated a real good bit of buzz...
