Many tokays have a purple color to them when they're dark. No big surprise there. And the patternless trait we already know breeds true. What I want to see proven is that they're actually different genetically than the patternless blues or green...ie if you breed one to a patternless blue or green, if it's a different trait, you should get normals. Until that's actually proven out, I'm not buying into the hype. And like I said, they've refused to answer even basic questions about the background of this "new" trait" multiple times. So that alone makes me think that there's something fishy about it. I've been in this hobby way to long to buy into the hype until someone proves it out. Everyone's looking to make a quick buck these days and very quick to call things whatever they want to in order to make people think they're buying something special or unique. I've seen multiple pics now of this supposed new morph and every one of them looks the same as any other patternless morph in dark phase. I have yet to see anything that looks even remotely purple in its light phase. But, like you say...we'll see.
I agree, I'm no fan of the "you name it new color morph" just so you can claim naming rights and try to sell it for big bucks.
The average person would be surprised at how many normals I got in as imports that were sold as a morph, or fancy, or whatever, and were not. In this case the exporters have control and when you buy a group of higher end Tokay you are 'required to buy' "other" animals as well. If they show up as nice Aberrant or really unusual/weird/cool individuals, then the $100 each might be worth it. Its when half of those are no more than $1 normals that you really get PO'ed about the whole slimy game.
At least these are at worst, just slightly overpriced patternless that I can work with and not a $1 normal from Indo that I paid $100 for.
But this has been my MO all along. I've over paid, (By US market standards), for most of my collection. It was the only way to acquire some of the better animals. Obviously I don't believe I'll see a profit from my Tokay investment. I do look to improve pricing, quality and maybe prove out some of these guys in the next couple of years. Oh and breaking even would be nice, HA!
