the market isnt crashing its changing. you have to realize, that while single gene morphs prices are dropping , their perspective markets are as well. once an animal hits a certain price point it can enter into the "normal" pet trade. so you wont be getting 1000 bucks for your pastel. you can sell 10 pastels for 400 bucks to a pet store. so if your producing the less expensive animals then in order to make money at it you must produce a lot of animals. or like most of us we only produce enough to cover our own costs and to trade up or create the more expensive morphs for our selves.
i started breeding snakes 12-15 years ago just to produce more animals for ME. i never even thought about making money at it. once you cross that bridge you will sorely disappointed unless you have gobs of money and time to go BIG.
adam jeffery