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crazydart
at Sat Apr 15 23:58:03 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by crazydart ]
I say if your handy build racks for $350. Build 3 of them that hold 8 of the 41qt tubs. Thats 24 cages. Buy 20 female imports at $20 each ($400). Get a Male homozygous of something recessive, and a homo male of something else recessive. Lets say you get pied ($4000) and albino ($1500)... that puts the current total at $6250. Now if you have some extra money get some good females such as hets or homos os the recessives you bought. Get 1 het pied female at $1500 and a homo albino female at $1500. Current total is $9250. So you have now filled the cages, have some good females up and comming, and several very popular morphs that we could refer to as root morphs. They will always be popular, because they make good mixes. You will also be able to make double hets the first breeding year if you breed the pied male to the albino female. Its not a quick turn around for profit, but the trading potential is there.
Good luck, and dont put more into a live animal than you would put on one number on the roulette table. They CAN always die. Thats one thing people never figure in. If that pied male dies, you still have some other things to keep the projects going, but I see some people buy adult normals for $500 each and one very expensive male co-dom and then it wont breed or dies. Heh. Not a good idea.
Ben
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RE: Investment question - crazydart, Sat Apr 15 23:58:03 2006