USA based Black / Silver / Jar / Lei breeding operations?

[David R]

If you're in it for the money go buy some shares or something, but if you're after a cool breeding project IMO set up a big indoor pond/pool with a group of blacks and see if you can spawn them. It could probably be done fairly cheaply using those plastic lined swimming pools, or a ply/pond liner type construction, or concrete blocks. Run a couple of big bead filters or a couple of barrels of K1, keep the room/warehouse well insulated...

I'm sure it's not impossible, and given the increasing cost and decreasing habitat of them I think it would be worth a shot (but not enough to rely on to feed your family!)

 

[Chicxulub]

If you're in it for the money go buy some shares or something, but if you're after a cool breeding project IMO set up a big indoor pond/pool with a group of blacks and see if you can spawn them. It could probably be done fairly cheaply using those plastic lined swimming pools, or a ply/pond liner type construction, or concrete blocks. Run a couple of big bead filters or a couple of barrels of K1, keep the room/warehouse well insulated...

I'm sure it's not impossible, and given the increasing cost and decreasing habitat of them I think it would be worth a shot (but not enough to rely on to feed your family!)

I think this might be the ticket. At least to start. It doesn't seem hard to do and if I'm a success hopefully people will begin to copy me to take pressure off of the wild fish.


Thanks for all of then input everybody.

 

[Oddball]

My silvers spawned, amazingly, in a counter-top 300 gal that held my cash register and had the most traffic around that tank.

In culturing black aros, you're missing a big chunk of the running costs. There's the Ovi-Prim to force conditioned adults to spawn if they refuse to. There medications costs for beat up spawning females and anti-fungals for the eggs and wigglers. Then, there's the big one, ...food. It will cost more to feed the aros than you could make on the supplier cost profits. The cost can be somewhat reduced by growing your own foods but, that requires space, time, and money for keeping live food cultures ongoing. This wouldn't be necessary if you're planning on selling egg-sac fry. But, these specimens have the lowest price per unit and that means little to no $ in the pocket for the efforts.

 

[Bderick67]

Yeah spending $25-30 a month just to feed my four arowana.

 

[sbuse]

I have a goal to breed aros. I had a good group of silvers going, then they got taken out. I said I would try again but with blacks. I am going to be doing just that. I am going to start with a group of 5 or so then add to them later. I figure if I have enough of them in a big display the chance of spawning is higher.

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