this thread got sidetracked a bit
i think if you have 3 females ready, getting a male banana may be very well worth it, sooner rather than later. a female banana can only produce one clutch at a time, so if you get a female things will move slower, but still. The prices will fall from season to season, but even when you start selling later when the price is lower, if you hatch clutches and produce good combos you will see the black numbers.
lets say you buy one for 1500-2000 now and start selling in 4-5 years because you hold them all back and do it slow, will the morph be down to 200? Nope, because these things are just too pretty. mass demand will kick in sooner. even if thousands are produced, i see the price getting stuck around 300-400 for a while. also you will produce multi-gene combos with banana, that also keeps the prices higher. So when you finally decide to sell, how many BPs in a price range between 200-600 dollars (or higher for nice combos) do you need to sell to get to black numbers when you now buy in for 1500-2000?
price decline bites when you dont get eggs. when you get eggs its rather meaningless.