Breeding for profit

[Nabbig2]

Breeding fish for money is a failing enterprise, but there are some papers out there on farming tropicals in a small setting. Angels are probably your best bet as they are very well documented. Given your aquarium size constraints, I recommend you get some african cichlids and breed those. Try yellow labs or saulosi. Both are popular and colorful and easy to breed. I have a colony of wild caught saulosi, I am bout to pull about 50-60 fry and they sell for about $1 to $2 wholesale. But seriously you are not gonna make more than couple hundred bucks a year under the good circumstances. Lots of non-obvious costs to raising fish.

I agree...breeding fish for cash is not a great idea. Just do it for fun.

 

[Alistriwen]

If you know what you're doing and have a business sense it can be done. Most people who try are just enthusiasts though and that's why it generally fails. I'm making $100 / week off fish and fish food and Im just doing it as a side project for pocket change while I finish my degree. $100/ week isnt much but if I were to get more serious about it and had the space I could no doubt turn it into 1000 / week or more. That is actually one of my aims for this coming year I'll let you know how it goes!

 

[Cappuccino]

did you ever think about breeding bettas? they are easy to care for, cheap to keep, easy to breed, dont take up to much space and you could probably get 1 to 2 dollars each from your lfs. guppies also do very well because of the quantity they breed.