I've watched the reptile market for years and it's the same thing, year after year. There are several things that go on that hurt the market.



People that aren't into a certain project will bad mouth a morph and that will damage the selling capabilities of the morph.



Then you have the people that bragging about how many they have hatched and putting pictures out on every forum. That makes people that have no faith in their animals selling to panic and they start selling their animals way below market value.



Once the cheap animals are sold off, other people that place a higher value on their animals will then begin to sell their animals at a price they consider fair.



Then you have the het vs. co-dom people. Some people will say that co-doms crash because they are all over the place. Well, out of all the vendors at Daytona, I didn't see Spiders on every table. But Pieds and Pastels were everywhere.



With recessive traits you have hets and poss. hets all over the market. With co-dom you have the visible morph and that is it. It takes years for the visible morph to catch up with the amount of recessive hets. in the market.



People should stop bad mouthing animals that they aren't working with and respect everyone's right to sell their animals at fair market value.

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