I'm so confused on what to do.

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I'll add require major water changes often when younger and need great water parameters. Don't know that much about them either. Seriously though these are all suggestions, discus are a lot of work so I wouldn't even do them if you don't really deep down want to deal with discus.
 
I know, I just confused on what to do with them. I would love to breed and make some money but If I did i wouldent have a clue on what to breed.
 
i would put african cichlids in the 75 and something odd like a toadfish in the 29 and use the 20's to breed feeders
 
milkman407;658953; said:
I know, I just confused on what to do with them. I would love to breed and make some money but If I did i wouldent have a clue on what to breed.
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Galaxy rasboras. They're new, hot and hard to get, but they breed easily and since hardly anyone has them yet they're easy to get rid of. Plus they're freakin' awesome for little fish. They look like tiny brook trout.
 
75 gallon: Show Tank; Datnoids, a nice Pleco, and Clown Loaches

29 gallon: Planted Community; Tetras, Cories, Otos, etc

20 gallon: Breeding Feeders; Convicts or Mollies

20 gallon: Feeder Grow Out Tank.
 
While blue jack dempseys are a little bit "last week" and I have personally failed miserably with a breeding project of this variant, if I had a few spare tanks right now, thats exactly what I would do: Order a group of 8 from Rapps and set up that 75 as a breeder (maybe even split it into two sections), then use 20 and 29s to grow out fry with blue gene. Most impotantly, price your young ones slightly cheaper than the competition when selling them and you will do quite well (going rate now is $15-25 for a 1-2.5" juvi)
 
If you want something fairly easy to breed and possibly most LFS would take in store credit or you could see online, try African Cichlids. Especially the Electric Yellows, they go from about $3-$4 each up to $10-$15 each. They are bright and most people not into aquariums gravitate to them. Go with a single specieces in the 75, maybe do about 20 young ones and when they get larger determine who are the females add trade the males for more females you typically want 1M to 4F or 5F. Use the other tanks as grow out tanks. I dumped about 24 African cichlids (about 6 of 4 different types) in my 135gal 3 years ago they breed like crazy, wasn't planning on it. We moved to a new house and I had about 300 too 400 .25 inch to 1 inch fry in an 18gal rubber maid container. They started up breeding again so now I have extra tanks to grow them out in. These guys stay small too, around 4-6 inches so they are easy to transport. :)
 
FWIW, African cichlids are not easy to sell, at least around here. Ease of placing them falls somewhere between finding homes for unwanted kittens and finding a place that will take a vat of toxic waste. At the LFS I work at, we get at least 3 people a week wanting to get rid of Africans, and there's no way we'll give credit for yellow labs.
 
Milkman407's first step might be finding out what LFS want but don't get very often. This could help narrow down his choices.
 
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