Kenshin
Very Well-Known Member
all i ever aim to do is cover my costs and at best finance new herps that i want
[...] Maybe its come a time were the lines of hobby and professional breeder need to be more clearly drawn. Control the breedings of hobby keepers. IMO a hobby keeper/breeder doesn't need 20 - 30 species, pumping out 15+ clutches a season, having more than 40 perm resident animals. In species that dont multi clutch, restrict the number of clutches allowed per a species. Making these keepers be more selective in what they breed, what species most interest them etc. [...]
some people will vet and some won't. I knew a guy who spent $300 having his three year old rat treated for cancer.yep . buy a $50 snake - it gets sick and have a choice between a $100+ vet bill or another $50 snake .
Trouble today is it seems a lot of keepers want everything right now and cheap.Not so long ago a lot of us built our collections up over time using any money made selling clutches to fund other species.Bred macs,sell clutch use the money to buy bredli then breed them, sell clutch use the money to buy bhps etc.
None of you have a right to tell any other person what they should or shouldn't breed and those who criticise others for breeding 'ordinary' animals were no doubt just as likely to have done so when they first started out in this hobby.
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