Does easy to breed, mean, not worth breeding?

[Oxquo]

"An article I wrote quite some time ago I thought was well worth posting here"

So many times we ask the question of how hard it is to breed a fish and secondly, is it worth it. Let me first say breeding some are very easy and others only easy for some. What is worth to you? If you are looking to make a living off of fish, first go down to your local fish store and ask how many millions they are making, when they stop laughing decide for yourself, are you doing this for love or money? If for money, stop. Sell your tank while you still can and your fish and buy yourself some great stocks. If it is for love of fish alone, then continue on. What fish do you love? Do you think you could breed their strain stronger? More colorful? Have you looked at pics of wild ones? If you have looked over alot of fish in the stores today you will agree that fish are looking far from their wild relatives in color, size and even health. Here is where it becomes worth it as we mentioned before. Imagine obtaining a wild specimen of perfection and breeding it to the nicest tank bred fish you have creating not another fish or a first generation wild but a hearty, healthy colorful, sizeable fish who's genetic structure is new and unmatched, a kribensis with color, a guppy with natural finnage or a killifish who only has one head lol. This is our goal as aquarists, to strengthen a strain. Easy or not to breed has nothing to do with the quality of fish you produce. It is that quality that draws crowds to the fish you love and back to worth? You still might not make much money off of them, but in the end it will all be well worth the effort you put into it. What happens if we don't? Hmm well ask yourself where Endler's livebearers went for all those years, Gymnogeophagus Austraille, even a few cories are no longer seen available because no one seemed to care anymore. These fish bred easy, then people bred them until no pure strains were left and the fish's color, size and health depleted, people looked down on them from that point on and instead of building a new and stronger strain just lost interest in them, luckily we can still rejuvenate these fish, but what happens to the ones that become extinct in the wild before we lose interest in them, they become extinct. This is a good lessen for those who never cull their fish or breed only from the best and most true stock. If you love a fish, easy to breed or not it is worth it and creating a healthy happy colorful strain of an easy to spawn fish is worth ten times more in the end than a hard to breed fish which has been quickly and steadily inbred for mass sales.

[fishboy]

Easy, definately does not mean not worth it. Lokk at people that are going to breed albinoe tiawan reef, very easy to breed but if you want any, they cost you your first born.

fishboy

[dunl]

killifish who only has one head lol.

ROTFLMAO.