Talk:Gardenia's Gathering of Roses/@comment-26947630-20160204010416/@comment-5160912-20160206132709

In addition to those mentioned there are other reasons to consider having multiples of one dragon. First though I would like to say that Dragonvale is a continuously evolving game and some of the current popular practises may have evolved from game rules that no longer apply. For a long while, if you had a pair of dragons you could use them to breed another 100% of the time, even if it was a limited dragon and it was no longer available. This is no longer the case, mostly you have a 20% chance and you can always breed your dragon with a friends in the cooperative breeding cave (a relatively new addition to the game).

Besides having multiple stages of the same dragon or keeping pedestals you may want to keep multiple of the same dragon for "breeding for profit" i.e. farming for dragon cash which you can use to purchase game assets islands, habitats and decorations. For example, I keep a Rainbow, Paper and Panlong (mostly) island for that purpose. Actually the Panlongs are a bit of a remnant of past rules. They multiplied by three boosts were the biggest money earners until BFS reduced their earning capacity in the intro to 2.0.

This became more long winded than I originally intended but I wanted to introduce the concept on keeping multiple of one type of dragon as cash earners.

As others have said, welcome to the game Deedee and others.