Because I snatch them before others do?Ever wonder why you cannot find a nice Enchi or Pastel (or whatever)?
Seriously though I have been preaching that for years,yet every year I see people who basically put two snakes together just because they can and because they want to hatch a certain mutation.
For the longest time it was Spider and Pastel (especially when the price made them very affordable to the masses) all of the sudden many started putting dark pastels with VERY busy pattern spiders because they wanted to hatch out a bee.
I understand how exciting it is to hatch something yourself, I don’t think there’s a better feeling however because you have that mutation and that one doesn’t always mean they should be paired, yes you might hatch the mutation you wanted to hatch “insert name here” but will it be a quality animal you will be proud of and want to hold back and breed to other animals?
Selling an animal can already take time but having below average animals will take you a lot longer to sell if they even do, you can always wholesale them but if you get into breeding why not produced the best looking animals possible.
I don’t have a huge collection I keep it very small and the main reason is that I want to breed for QUALITY and not quantity; I want to produce some outstanding animals that I am proud of myself but that my customers will also be proud to ad in their collection.
I don’t buy a mutation because I have to have it or to be able to say I have it, I buy the mutation because it is something I want to work with and I only do the day I found the perfect example that would fit in my collection.
It took me 3 years to find the perfect reduced pattern albino, 2 to 3 years to found the enchi I wanted, (the hypo enchi I was lucky) anyway I am picky and I take my time even if that means I am way behind on what some other people are already producing.... it is all worth it to me.
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