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.)