Prices for fish in a glass box to look at are too high in general. It's not like these animals are driving me to work, signing my paycheck or paying my bills. For instance, $600 for a pair of discus? Even if you are able to breed them, it would take you some serious time to ever recoup your money if it happened at all. I mean really...they are fish. And, like you said, breeders are not just raising 1 fish. I could understand if someone raised 1 fish for a year and then sold it. I guess you need to consider the cost of a "HOBBY" before you get one. Demand always drives greed. Look at the recent natural disasters. Do you think construction companies are cutting people deals or raking them over the coals because they can and know that people are desperate (Demand)? Insurance companies are shorting all of these people because they are greedy. What politicians aren't destroying, mother nature is. This world is going to $h!t. How's that for an escalated rant......lol.