hence my recommendation for African cichlids. There are more popular species there than I can count and many regions have deficiencies in one area or another you can talk to your local retailers and look on craigs list see what is there then fill in the blanks and start breeding what isn't. Overhead for even the most expensive africans is so much less than most of the larger SA fish IMHO you could pick a strain of frontosa or Gibberosa. Those being probably one of if the the most expensive fish to keep and breed from the african great lakes. Also the cost of wild africans is way less than wild south Americans for whatever reasons.
Because of the large selection of africans there is not much in the way of direct competition between breeders. You could breed 12 different kinds of fish and not overlap with many of the other breeders so no direct competition. Its great! As for overhead the smaller average size does seem to make the fish more profitable as well. If you want to go SA I would recommend doing Pbass since they are still underserved in many areas. A standard mono fry goes for 30-50 by me at 1"-3" in size.
