Quote Originally Posted by Dave Green View Post
The banana was unique because of the male makers. It was so easy to produce males and breed them to multiple females, the market got flooded with males pretty quickly. I think the scaleless heads price fall has more to do with the concern over the fully scaleless animals. The rumors were flying and the price fell. I think if the original scaleless animals thrived and we could see them in photos and videos the price wouldn't be where it is now.
True on both points. So maybe bamboo would be a better recent example of what happens to prices in the co-dom market. Of course if it's true that there are problems with homozygous scaleless, that's a different story.