The thread below intrigued me about weighing between investing in an awesome new morph female, the costs to maintain her, and the inevitable depreciation of price in the pet market. So I thought I would run some numbers through Excel to see what I could come up with.



Some assumptions:

Price depreciates over time.

All young of year sold. No holdbacks, trades, or lost sales.

All babies same morph as mother or worth equal value.

IE, no $75 normals or $100 males or hets, etc.

Individual is a female, so 1 clutch per year.

Does not necessarily include all costs of maintaining a rodent colony.



First clutch of babies sold for $2000 / hatchling

Price depreciates by $2000 * 1/year of sale.

Example: Year 10 - $2000 * 1/10 = $200 / hatchling



Clutch size derived by randomly selecting numbers between 2 and 10

Live/dead status determined by randomly generating number between 1 and 4. 1, 2, 3 = Live. 4 = Dead.



This is what I got: (Note how current replication resulted in negative net profits!)





I welcome criticisms, adjustments, suggestions, etc. I just meant this to be thought provoking, not argumentative.


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