give me any ideas.... im looking to breed a cichlid in my 100Gallon or my 55-75Gallon tank to help reduce the depths im in (tank wise!) what cichlid would be the best to breed and sell ? im down to my final 3 but if you know anything better let me know. or any other unqiue fish that can help me maintain the well being of my tanks !!! thanks guys
Best Overall Cichlid?
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if youre trying to make money breeding cichlids, good luck!!!
i think the only one that could possibly even pay for the efforts would be flowerhorns.
every serious fishkeeper has tried, and most only learn that its nearly impossible to move any significant numbers.
good luck with your endevours!!!
i think the only one that could possibly even pay for the efforts would be flowerhorns.
every serious fishkeeper has tried, and most only learn that its nearly impossible to move any significant numbers.
good luck with your endevours!!!
perserverance is best! I sustain my hobby on fish sales. Your not gonna make money right away. it will be 2-3 years to get enough fish to sustain you.
I would say the most profitable would be EBJD... Although a little complicated.. First you need a male EBJD and a female regular dempsey. they have to mate. this will only give you fry with the blue gene, NOT electric blue dempseys. the next step is to grow out some fry to sex and have (a bit taboo) the dad mate with his female offspring... Then you will have some of the fry that will be ebjd... not all, just a percentrage.
At least that is how I understand it.
I am trying the same right now. I already have month old blue gene fry...
I will do a post here cause everytime I post in the SA/CA cichlid forum they move it to the media lounge
Good luck
At least that is how I understand it.
I am trying the same right now. I already have month old blue gene fry...
I will do a post here cause everytime I post in the SA/CA cichlid forum they move it to the media lounge
Good luck
If your sole purpose was to bred for money in this day in age be prepared to faile. Research your local market ( the stores and local breeders in your area). Thats your competition, if they have it ..then you should not bother raising the similar fish they always carry. I would go with a harder to find fish that the usual stores do not stock. Every place is going to be different. In my area rare things are like Nanos, zebra plecos, leusistic hunduras red point,and golden pheniox fader flowerhorns.
Unless you think you can dominate the competition with a higher quality blood line - thats the only way to breed similar things sold in your erea.But thats a hard thing to do. Remember will you have to have space to rear larger more agressive cichlids. Flowerhorns require alot of tanks space and a ton of food.
You could always go to the local stores and ask if theres a kinda cichlid they'd like a local breeder for, BUT dont get excited to follow thru with their request and have them turn you down or give you a few bucks in only store credit for fish they will want at a potentially want at near full grown size.
I would not go into this as a business concept. Start reading on stuff on line, like how little a store chain likely pays per unit(fish)....on a mature betta for sale(.08 cents a fish)you cannot compete with the prices from asia...
I am just putting this on here as a heads up, the more research the more success for yourself.Try and ask the store owners on their over head. I my self used to breed flowerhorns and was very compensated in early 2000's here in toronto only because the market had no competition and I am surrounded in a large asian market here in toronto that drove a good market for flowerhorns, but not so much now....
The only advice I can say is if you raise a fish no one esle has odds are they will want that kind of fish next so rare can some times be better...depending on the fish...
The posted picture has no reference, just a recent pic I had on my desktop I figure what the heck I toss it up...hybrid mixes I had in 2006
Unless you think you can dominate the competition with a higher quality blood line - thats the only way to breed similar things sold in your erea.But thats a hard thing to do. Remember will you have to have space to rear larger more agressive cichlids. Flowerhorns require alot of tanks space and a ton of food.
You could always go to the local stores and ask if theres a kinda cichlid they'd like a local breeder for, BUT dont get excited to follow thru with their request and have them turn you down or give you a few bucks in only store credit for fish they will want at a potentially want at near full grown size.
I would not go into this as a business concept. Start reading on stuff on line, like how little a store chain likely pays per unit(fish)....on a mature betta for sale(.08 cents a fish)you cannot compete with the prices from asia...
I am just putting this on here as a heads up, the more research the more success for yourself.Try and ask the store owners on their over head. I my self used to breed flowerhorns and was very compensated in early 2000's here in toronto only because the market had no competition and I am surrounded in a large asian market here in toronto that drove a good market for flowerhorns, but not so much now....
The only advice I can say is if you raise a fish no one esle has odds are they will want that kind of fish next so rare can some times be better...depending on the fish...
The posted picture has no reference, just a recent pic I had on my desktop I figure what the heck I toss it up...hybrid mixes I had in 2006