All the whining is pretty funny considering YOU are killing the market every time you breed. You are selling those babies for a high price to *gasp* another breeder. If there was such a market for them why is fauna full of bumped posts and dropping prices? You can't regulate the breeding so why expect to regulate prices?
You talk like a "hobby" breeder must not be doing it right, must have low quality animals or a poor setup which isn't neccessarily the case. I don't know any hobby that you make money off, if you are in it to make money, you are a business. I'm not making any money off my lone snake, but don't feel the need to breed him just because I've been paying out to feed and house him, that's what having a pet requires last time I checked. If you can't afford to feed and house what you are producing than you shouldn't be breeding period.
I also have spent thousands on my reef tanks but don't feel the need to frag out every "rare" coral every time it grows an inch to get my money back because I enjoy tanks and enjoy the hobby. But plenty do and there's the same arguments on every reefing forum about price drops and "quality". Some people feel special to pay 20x times the price to have a name on it and others like me could care less because it's the look I'm after, not who bred/named it.
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