I just found the old magazine (it is actually Oct. '96) to see what we are discussing. I can see how it is confusing, but never noticed it before (guess it is because I know what I was referring to!). Nobody else has ever asked about it until now.

We were talking about creams helping to found the candycanes in the paragraph you pointed out. Then we have a paragraph discussing more generally about how yellow develops with age, and how we choose our keepers. The paragraph after that goes into the making of alb. / reverse okeetees. Where it says "During the mid - to late 1980s, we noticed a few specimens that possessed unusually large white borders...etc..." - It SHOULD have said "...a few specimens of amelanistic corns that possessed...etc..."

Because the paragraphs were split by something somewhat unrelated, it never ocurred to me that the words were missing, and that people could think I was still referring to the paragraph about the candycanes. But since you pointed it out, I can see that now, after all of these years! Just never thought about it, and nobody said anything.

If the 3rd paragraph meant that the alb. okeetees derived from creams and / or candycanes, it would indicate that the creams and candycanes were developed BEFORE the alb. okeetees, but the opposite is true.

The time line (in my collection, anyway)is that we had LOTS of amel corns we bred for the pet trade (there were no named "breeds" at that time). We saw some variation, and started breeding the "no-whte" ones first (that became sunglows later). Then started breeding the wide white bordered amels (that later became reverse / alb. okeetees). Then we used existing types (light colored alb. okeetees, Miami phase, light creams - which we never actually produced from scratch ourselves, but got elsewhere- and just light colored amel corns, to found our line of candycanes.

Until today, I had no idea that the article had misled anyone into thinking otherwise. I thank you for pointing it out, and truly apologize if I confused anyone else (better later than never!)

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