I, too, am kicking myself that I didn't A. pick up a bunch of Enchi females a couple of years ago; I think they were actually in the $400-500 range then, and have actually increased in value! ... Or B. picked up a stunning example of a male and just made myself a bunch of females. :/ Oh well, hindsight and whatnot ... and I guess I could still pick up that male.

I mean, I love the Enchi girls that I have ... I just want more of 'em!

Seeing what happened with the Enchi market, I can't help but think that maybe it's a bit of an example of why some of the bigger breeders do the kind of "stealth marketing" that they do. To give an example, one of the hottest genes out there (and still way up in price) is the "hidden-gene" woma. ... But that's not really because it's a wild and crazy looking morph, like the banana; it actually looks so similar to a run-of-the-mill $200 morph (regular woma) that for a long time it was thought they were the same thing. They're in such demand because NERD showed us all of the wicked stuff you can make with it ... Before releasing any to the market. Now everybody wants that secret ingredient.

I can remember reading a few older posts, though, where people just thought that Enchi was another line of pastel. Their true potential to produce wicked stuff wasn't really shown until after they were already all over the market -- and priced fairly cheap for a new morph, since no one knew what they could do.

... I agree, too, that the USA seems to have a lot of very "blah" Enchis (I did have another female at one point, but she looked like a banded normal -- not that I don't love those, too! -- so I traded her). It seems to me that I see pictures of European Enchis and many of those are way nicer. I'm sure that didn't help promote the morph much, either.

That's my market speculation, anyway ...