Im actually just starting to breed large cichlids.I am 19 now,but have been in the hobby since I was 12.I breed high grade flowerhorns and sell the to friends and mom and pop buisinesses.Mabey in a few years I can give you a couple.
Fish room/Business progression thread
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Yeah, I'm open for anything. If anybody has anything they want to sell or trade me or if anybody wants to buy some guppies or shrimp than just send me a message.
So Guppy fry are a little bit more active today and are eating. I'm seeing a GIANT berried shrimp looks like around 25ish eggs should be hatching any day now. Business off to a small yet sturdy start.
Sure, I will get some good pictures of the shrimps tonight, I just need to get my good camera out.
More good news! Found 6 more fry in the 55gal that I moved into the 10gal. I'm hoping the fry are from the guppies but we'll see.
So here is the tank stocks
55gal-Pleco,Pair of Bolivian rams,12 platies, 7 guppies
10gal- 20ish shrimp, 10ish small guppies,18ish guppy fry.
5.5gal, 3 betta's and a convict in a trap.
Going to give the Bolivian rams to a friend to hold until I get my fish room set up, as one ram is male and the other female. Going to try and get rid of the convict and the Betta's. Pleco is in there for algae control. So Once i set the fish room up It's going to be these three tanks and hopefully I'll have some guppies and shrimp to sell by that time. Everything Is going good so far
More good news! Found 6 more fry in the 55gal that I moved into the 10gal. I'm hoping the fry are from the guppies but we'll see.
So here is the tank stocks
55gal-Pleco,Pair of Bolivian rams,12 platies, 7 guppies
10gal- 20ish shrimp, 10ish small guppies,18ish guppy fry.
5.5gal, 3 betta's and a convict in a trap.
Going to give the Bolivian rams to a friend to hold until I get my fish room set up, as one ram is male and the other female. Going to try and get rid of the convict and the Betta's. Pleco is in there for algae control. So Once i set the fish room up It's going to be these three tanks and hopefully I'll have some guppies and shrimp to sell by that time. Everything Is going good so far
Sure, I will get some good pictures of the shrimps tonight, I just need to get my good camera out.
More good news! Found 6 more fry in the 55gal that I moved into the 10gal. I'm hoping the fry are from the guppies but we'll see.
So here is the tank stocks
55gal-Pleco,Pair of Bolivian rams,12 platies, 7 guppies
10gal- 20ish shrimp, 10ish small guppies,18ish guppy fry.
5.5gal, 3 betta's and a convict in a trap.
Going to give the Bolivian rams to a friend to hold until I get my fish room set up, as one ram is male and the other female. Going to try and get rid of the convict and the Betta's. Pleco is in there for algae control. So Once i set the fish room up It's going to be these three tanks and hopefully I'll have some guppies and shrimp to sell by that time. Everything Is going good so far
More good news! Found 6 more fry in the 55gal that I moved into the 10gal. I'm hoping the fry are from the guppies but we'll see.
So here is the tank stocks
55gal-Pleco,Pair of Bolivian rams,12 platies, 7 guppies
10gal- 20ish shrimp, 10ish small guppies,18ish guppy fry.
5.5gal, 3 betta's and a convict in a trap.
Going to give the Bolivian rams to a friend to hold until I get my fish room set up, as one ram is male and the other female. Going to try and get rid of the convict and the Betta's. Pleco is in there for algae control. So Once i set the fish room up It's going to be these three tanks and hopefully I'll have some guppies and shrimp to sell by that time. Everything Is going good so far
around here everything your keeping are gioving away for free. People give away jags, fh, pikes. If your gonna do the breeding thing you have to go big or go home. I bred jags and probly made enough money to buy some food and water chemicals and then i started giving them away. Also i understand your young and stuff but realize that the economy sucks andmost kids coming outta college wont get jobs they go to school for like me and have to settle. You dont realize how much it cost to run the tanks your parents are paying for you to have.
I actually know exactly how much these tanks cost to run. I've done every imaginable aspect of research. People are buying fish right now, people are buying everything right now, money is in importing things that are essential, like clothes, people will always buy clothes because people need it, The only problem is the start up cost is HUGE as well as finding people to distribute the products for you. I sell about 95% of the things I list on eBay. That's pretty high, my profit margin is pretty decent as well. If people are giving high price fish away they probably are not trying hard enough to sell, you could sell them to LFS for some money because having to give them away for free. I am paying to maintain the tanks actually, the 55gal cost around $10-$15 a month. I have no problem with that.
