Quote Originally Posted by Eric Alan View Post
They're not extremely rare, but they are less common. Male BPs reach maturity faster than females, so they are paired sooner. When they are paired, they can sire multiple clutches each year. Add to that the sex-linked trait for the Banana gene and you end up with a ton of male-maker male Bananas. Yes, getting a female is as genetically easy as you think it is. It's just that it takes at least 2-3x longer to grow up a female Banana and even then she can only have one clutch/year. That's why there are so many more males than females in the hobby.

On a related note, your last sentance is backwards - supply/demand drives price, not the other way around. It is because there are so many more males that they are a lot cheaper. Also, I don't think it's a matter of not knowing how the gene works (for anyone with even a tiny bit of curiosity and eagerness to learn). In fact, I think it's the opposite - people take advantage of it and use it to their benefit quite often.
No I meant it how I said it. Females of many genes are more expensive. The banana gene makes the price impact more, because if people in the past opted for males because they are cheaper/ faster and made male makers before fully understanding the genes that would drive the price down on males a lot in a short time period and create the myth that females are extremely hard to hatch. I also meant that females being more expensive keeps the price down for this fact too because people will usually feel like it isn't worth it when you can hit 3 females 2 years earlier and still have a 15% chance on a female banana when buying a male. Especially when you can buy 2-3 males with the cost of a female. I guess it's kind of a chicken or egg scenario in a way.



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