if not posted discus for fresh and clowns for salt down here, but you will have to work to get the stores to buy from you down here cause there are allot of fish farms here people grow what you think are imported here on there farm ponds in the glades
What to Breed for Income?
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Breed for Fun not for profit i spend hundreds of dollars sometimes to get a breeding pair and i have being doing fish since i was in the 4th grade and my parents were very supportive i had 12 fish tanks (my dad loved it). So dont try and do it cause you want to make money do it cause you love fish.Or else you wont have anymore fun.
There's too many people breeding abroad and importing for pennies... (although this is never apparent when we go to our LFS and get made to pay well over the top!!!)
Breed Sturgeons and start producing caviar man, that's gotta be where the cash is at if your in it for commercial gain! (Plus sturgeons are great fish to keep, super friendly, never seem to get sick, hardy as hell...)
I agree with Nicolascrnelson about you know, keeping fish because you love them... But yeah if you can make cash from doing what you love (like footballers etc) good on you amigo!
Breed Sturgeons and start producing caviar man, that's gotta be where the cash is at if your in it for commercial gain! (Plus sturgeons are great fish to keep, super friendly, never seem to get sick, hardy as hell...)
I agree with Nicolascrnelson about you know, keeping fish because you love them... But yeah if you can make cash from doing what you love (like footballers etc) good on you amigo!
you might want to breed other things other than fish alone.. maybe snakes/lizards, those can fetch high bucks
or create large indoor ponds in the basement and start importing Arapima Gigas (like that guy in Amazone got these Ara Farm) and introduce it as commerical fish to your local markets and maybe stick a few high end king arowana in it
You gotta consider breeding fish is not a necessarity in life.. so you wont have a fix income unless you can sell a large quantity
THINK ABOUT IT! If this was so easy.. (under $5000 to set up/work less than 3 hrs a day/make at least $1500 a month) we wouldve done it already, but then again.. if all of us did it.. Crazy competition xD and in the end it wouldnt work at all xD
or create large indoor ponds in the basement and start importing Arapima Gigas (like that guy in Amazone got these Ara Farm) and introduce it as commerical fish to your local markets and maybe stick a few high end king arowana in it
You gotta consider breeding fish is not a necessarity in life.. so you wont have a fix income unless you can sell a large quantity
THINK ABOUT IT! If this was so easy.. (under $5000 to set up/work less than 3 hrs a day/make at least $1500 a month) we wouldve done it already, but then again.. if all of us did it.. Crazy competition xD and in the end it wouldnt work at all xD
How much you can make also can depend somewhat on your location.Still $1,500 is probably a bit much unless you've got a lot of money to risk in the first place, and are with the understanding that it will be just that,a risk.
I live in BFE my town's population is almost 100,000 and the nearest cities to us are 200 miles in each direction.
I don't know how else to describe it other than being a retirement town, the people have more money than they know what to do with and are to lazy to look on the internet for what they want. (others are simply distrustful of the internet and some may not know it exists)
The 2 LFS can hardly keep stock in,any time something cool comes in it's gone with a quickness,usually that day because of how many people come in on shipment day and sit like vultures waiting for the boxes to be opened.
Theres a guy in town who breeds African Cichlids,mostly peacocks, and I know he makes a fair amount of money each month because everybody goes to him for cichlids....the LFS can't really compete with him because he's been doing it for long enough that he's got a bit of a rep.
He just does that on the side though, if it all fell through tomorrow he wouldn't be without income.I think thats the only way to go... if you don't have a huge amount of money you can set aside to risk on a fish business than at the very least make darn sure it's not your only source of income.Have a fall back plan.
If I was going to do something along those lines I would get solar power,which will eventually pay for itself,and probably a large a greenhouse as I could afford to construct....but I live in a state with a reasonably mild climate.
Greenhouses can stay pretty warm inside even when it's pretty cold outside, and if it did get a bit chilly inside you could use the solar generated power to heat the greenhouse,which won't take much.
That would take care of your heating, possibly your lighting if you set it up right.You would probably want to make sure you were out of city limits as not having to dechlor your water would probably save lots as well.
Still all these shavings of cost still may not put you in the position where your putting $1,500 a month in your pocket.
I live in BFE my town's population is almost 100,000 and the nearest cities to us are 200 miles in each direction.
I don't know how else to describe it other than being a retirement town, the people have more money than they know what to do with and are to lazy to look on the internet for what they want. (others are simply distrustful of the internet and some may not know it exists)
The 2 LFS can hardly keep stock in,any time something cool comes in it's gone with a quickness,usually that day because of how many people come in on shipment day and sit like vultures waiting for the boxes to be opened.
Theres a guy in town who breeds African Cichlids,mostly peacocks, and I know he makes a fair amount of money each month because everybody goes to him for cichlids....the LFS can't really compete with him because he's been doing it for long enough that he's got a bit of a rep.
He just does that on the side though, if it all fell through tomorrow he wouldn't be without income.I think thats the only way to go... if you don't have a huge amount of money you can set aside to risk on a fish business than at the very least make darn sure it's not your only source of income.Have a fall back plan.
If I was going to do something along those lines I would get solar power,which will eventually pay for itself,and probably a large a greenhouse as I could afford to construct....but I live in a state with a reasonably mild climate.
Greenhouses can stay pretty warm inside even when it's pretty cold outside, and if it did get a bit chilly inside you could use the solar generated power to heat the greenhouse,which won't take much.
That would take care of your heating, possibly your lighting if you set it up right.You would probably want to make sure you were out of city limits as not having to dechlor your water would probably save lots as well.
Still all these shavings of cost still may not put you in the position where your putting $1,500 a month in your pocket.
