How to start a fish breeding buisness
- Thread starter M3AN ONE
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If you like keeping fish, a good way to stop liking them is to put a price on them and make it a job. From experience...
I agree once you start looking at them as money the fun drops away pretty fast.
Best advice I have heard about breeding for profit is find a fish you enjoy keeping and keeping, after that if you can find a buying great if not keep looking until you find a market.
So many easier ways to make money. Fish is the hardest way I've tried. I've seen some people do ok that are species specific for high dollar fish such as discus. You can do ok fragging coral but it is pretty competitive. Your lfs owner is typically doing ok but not getting rich. Idk why people think wholesalers do well, that is a brutal business. Need huge capital outlays with razor thin margins with inventory that's prone to die. While saying all that you could always make a few bucks selling fry from expensive fish but it does cost some cash to grow them. Great hobby. ..horrible business
Yea, it's work. You need lots of fish to breed, you have disease outbreaks, feeding and cleaning gets to be a big job, water costs, food/meds/filtration costs, weather and climate have to be controlled. A prolonged power outage can wipe you out.
It's a lot more planning involved than just keeping a few tanks in the house.
Then you'll have to ship and transport rays--they're kinda dangerous.
It's a lot more planning involved than just keeping a few tanks in the house.
Then you'll have to ship and transport rays--they're kinda dangerous.
Now all I have to do is figure out how this will be plumbed and setup a drip filtration
