Females vs males

[guitrage]

Why do females cost so much more than males? Also, do males or females grow larger?

[JDouglas]

Codom traits are affecting the market. Normal females cost more because one male can breed multiple females. A friend of mine bred on male pastel to 9 females and all 9 had nice clutches! Normal females have gone up in price because of traits like spiders and pastels and normal males have stayed the same.

Pastel and Spider females are more because sellers know that people want to make super pastels, bumble bees, killer bees, etc. and the way to do this is to cross visual morph pairs. So their demand is high right now.

I would love to have a male spider and about 8 female pastels or even better a male pastel and 8 female spiders!

I hope this answers your question!

[Jeff_Favelle]

What Jaremy said.

How many clutches can you produce with 30 males and one female? You could only ever produce ONE clutch per year, no matter how hard you try. But what id you had one male, and 30 females? Well then you're potemtial rises by 30 fold. So what if there are 1000 other breeders out there like that? That means the demand for males is 3,000 males, but 30,000 females! And when demand is higher, what does that do to price?

Simple economics.

[hhw]

Conversely though, because that one male can breed with several females while a female can only breed once, you see males costing more for certain morphs like spiders. This makes sense when the supply is more limited and the animals are more expensive giving a larger barrier to entry, and you can restrict the supply by only selling the females while using females of less expensive morphs to make your own crosses.

[guitrage]

That makes sense. Thanks. But who grows larger?

[guitrage]

Do males and females have different behavior or anything?

[nita]

Females usually get larger, disposition is all relative.