I think there's a lot of expectation that babies produced will sell for the price that the parents were bought for, and that's almost definitely not the case, not when the animals are capable of exponentially reproducing. If you consider that a coral glow might cost $25,000 at one point, and produces 50% coral glows in an average 4 egg clutch, that's twice the replacement rate. Expand that to all the people that those babies are sold to and you'll find that morphs quickly start to have a building supply that is going to outstrip demand at those high value levels.
Co-dom for instance.
Bob has one awesome morph, and in an average four egg clutch, makes two awesome morph (50%). There are three on the market. He sells them for a good price.
Joe and John now each have an awesome morph. In an average four egg clutch, those three awesome morphs on the market make six. There are now nine on the market.
Those nine make eighteen, 27 on the market. Those 27 make 54, and there are 81 on the market. Those 81 make 162, and there are 243 on the market. Those 243 make 486, and there are 729 on the market... and so forth.
Male production can unbalance this even more because you can breed one male morph to a bunch of female normals or pastels or whatever and way increase the amount that you produce of that special morph.
Morphs are destined to drop in price, and pretty rapidly as they start dispersing. It's just economics. I think the best thing to do is to keep reasonable expectations for what kind of income you might see from the activity, then you can't be too disappointed.
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