If you collect specimens for the purpose of making a profit, you are a commercial collector - be it 1 specimen collected a year or 5,000.

However, you can be a hobbyist and still sell CB offspring and NOT be commercial. The difference in my mind - a hobbyist puts more money into his reptiles than he gets out and has no goal whatsoever of profitability.

Now - maybe a hobbyist will get lucky and hatch glow in the dark neon gopher snakes and suddenly turn a profit, or maybe a hobbyist will spend hours and hours of selective breeding and come up with something new, but they do it for a hobby - not for aspirations of making their wallet fatter.

That's how I see it anyway.

Oh - while some hobbyists will have rack systems, particularly if their hobby is related to selective breeding aspect, a hobbyist is probably far more likely to use display cages at least for a decent percentage of their herps.
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3.0 WC; 0.1 CB L. getula californiae
0.1 CB L. pyromelana pyromelana
0.1 WC Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata (gravid)

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• commercial collecting of 2 ways......... - mchambers, Sun Jul 2 07:16:24 2006
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