Genetically Greater Males to Genetically Lower Females

[Pythonfriend]

yes, if the morphs involved are all more or less the same price, the male should have more genes. but if there are significant price differences, it means that the male should be more expensive.

even then, there are exceptions. for example, when someone wants to get into breeding and just happens to have a male black pastel and a female pastel lesser, instead of buying a better male, one option would be to just breed them and hope for a double-gene or triple-gene male hatchling. with the right odds, one clutch may be enough, and males reach sexual maturity so fast that switching to the better holdback male can be done within a year.

thats the thing with a "rule of thumb", it generally applies and it makes sense, but real life is so complex that sometimes there have to be exceptions.