Fish room/Business progression thread

[Newbie Breeder]

Snails are going crazy so I'm selling the ramshorns at $1 a dozen.

 

[yayfish24]

Are you only selling locally or shipping? Im interested in some ramshorns and id love to help you out.


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[sts558]

I was reading your thread and I'm interested to know how things are going. Any updates?

 

[TheBigB]

I was reading your thread and I'm interested to know how things are going. Any updates?

+1

 

[fishmanbob87]

lol guppies would sell 12 babies for 25cents to a lfs , my lfs sell 12 guppy fry for 75cents and large pairs for $3 , bro there is no value in guppys

theres plenty of money in guppies if you can do it on a large enough scale... for a cheap alternative to tanks i would look into baby pools. like the ones you see outside of k-mart selling for $20. three of those and you could breed and house thousands of guppies. $25 adds up when you do it a few thousand times over. i admire your determination, goodluck with the project and keep us posted

 

[fishmanbob87]

guess i should have looked further into this thread before i posted. awesome job!! and i see you have created some diversity in the types of species you are breeding. i would still recommend thinking about the baby pools. very easy to move, maintain, and house bulk quantities in. keep it up

 

[bulldovii]

I think that if you found a decent pair of flower horns it might be a quicker turn around for profit.

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[hamster]

If that is the case could you cross breed and then select breed?

Not sure how well the Fire Reds will work for you, the reason being from what i've heard from all the shops in Hong Kong i've talked to, they breeders don't sell Fire Red Shrimp Females to LFS' or outsiders so it may turn out to be impossible for you to breed (IF that is the case)... which in all honesty seems to make sense since in all the time i've seen fire reds for sale over here (which is at least 2-3 years+ now), i've never seen one that was pregnant...

And its not like the shops are selling pregnant shrimp either, since i've seen King Kongs, CRS, Cherries etc all berried which were for sale, but not once seen a Fire Red which was holding a clutch... even when i kept a tank full of them never had one that berried in over a year...

Either way, hopefully you'll get a mix of both male and female to help you kick start your colony and business...