Recessive, Co-dominant or dominant?

[endian]

If one were to invest in an up and coming new morph which type do you think would give you the best return on your investment: Recessive, Co-dominant or dominant? It seems like morphs with dominant genetics are the most likely to lose value the soonest. The morph shows up in the 1st generation when bred to a normal female, which means it is very easy for the market to be flooded with that type of morph in just a few short years. By virtue of their very genetics recessive morphs take the longest to reproduce the morph when bred to a normal female, with the morph showing up in the second generation. But recessive morphs' hets look normal so there is not as much potential as there are with co-dominant morphs when mixed with other morphs, think bumble bee and killer bee. Co-dominant morphs do show up in the first generation but when bred together one gets the super form which means you essentially have a 2 in 1 morph. It seems as though recessive and co-dominant morphs have the greatest potential return though there are other factors to take in to account like how many of the morphs being sold by the originator of the morphs. What do you think? Which is the most valuable and why?

[boasandballs]

I think with the thousands of morphs out there you should get what you like, because you will enjoy working with it. I have seen a lot of morphs that go far and some that fizzel. You just never know untill you work with it.

For instance the champaine. They are still working with it. As of now it makes a slight differance in other morphs when combined, will it go far?????

Do what you love and you will love what you do.

[tonkatoyman]

I think with the thousands of morphs out there you should get what you like, because you will enjoy working with it. I have seen a lot of morphs that go far and some that fizzel. You just never know untill you work with it.

For instance the champaine. They are still working with it. As of now it makes a slight differance in other morphs when combined, will it go far?????

Do what you love and you will love what you do.

DITTO x2.

[Serpent_Nirvana]

Thoughtful topic for your 1st post

I typed out a whole bunch of crap, but then decided it was irrelevant ... In my opinion, speaking more from observation and speculation than experience, I would postulate that the actual appeal of the morph itself is far more important in making that new project a sound investment than is its genetic makeup.

Something like the banana/coral, for example, will most likely hold its value for quite some time as its appeal is enormous all by itself. Something like the sable, on the other hand, has a much more limited market, IMO, and although it may have somewhat similar genetics (bizarre sex ratios of banana/coral offspring notwithstanding) I don't think it would be nearly as solid an investment even at a time when the sable project was brand new.

For recessives, I think that's even more important, since it takes that much more effort to reproduce them. People are happy to go through the work to reproduce piebalds because they're awesome looking, but if the piebald was a more subtle morph, I think people would be much less likely to invest in hets and all the rest of the project.

Finally, I think proving that the morph has combo potential will go a long way towards securing it as an investment ... Look at the "regular" woma versus "HG woma." Regular womas can make some kinda neat combos, but the "HG woma" does some crazy stuff when combined with the right other morphs, and although I believe they were discovered around the same time (hence sharing a name), the "regular" woma is on the order of $100's to buy a baby while the "HG woma" is on the order of $1000's.

Soo ... That's my take. (This was still long. Dang.)