Quote Originally Posted by 771subliminal View Post
i agree with you but price does come into play too, ive seen 3 or 4 people that picked up siblings to your pastel that look great as well, now when all of you have offspring from these there is a great chance that the offspring could all be the same quality. but that doesnt mean that you wont charge less for yours than one of the others would for theres.
Actually - unless they talk to Garrick, there's no way to know which ones are her siblings - all the pastels he's had up don't all come from the same clutches - and he's got two super pastels that he's running through his females. That's four sets of pastel genes in the mix (2 sets for each super). And Garrick said that his supers are crossed lines, so he can't even say which line is which. I know of two others that were priced as high as mine and two members here each purchased them, and I would have been happy with either of them as well.

Will all my offspring be the best example of a pastel? Certainly not - but will my offspring be graded and priced accordingly? Absolutely. But by being very selective in not just my morphs, but also my normals, and selectively breeding for certain traits, I increase my chances of producing nicer animals. For me, it's like, why bother breeding if I'm breeding just for the sake of breeding - breed to produce the best you can - that starts with having nice animals as your foundation animals.

I know that my tastes aren't the same as others, so I can only buy and breed what appeals to me - and for ME, I'm willing to pay to get what I want.