Breeding Fish For Money

[Mako Man111]

I was just wondering what the market is looking for, as in what fish and what they look for in a fish. I'm guessing angel fish are pretty popular? I'm considering doing a little breeding to make some extra money. What do angel fish fry typically sell for?

 

[vancouver]

The only way you'd make money off angelfish would be if you could breed rare ones..

They're not an expensive fish in the first place, so making money wouldn't really be that easy.

If you had the space, and felt like putting lots of effort into it, electric blue jack dempseys would be the way to go.

 

[Mako Man111]

The only way you'd make money off angelfish would be if you could breed rare ones..

They're not an expensive fish in the first place, so making money wouldn't really be that easy.

If you had the space, and felt like putting lots of effort into it, electric blue jack dempseys would be the way to go.

I hear the electric blue jacks are something that occur every other generation or something, I forget what its called already and had bio just last year.

EDIT: Like F2 generation or something

"The principle reason that Electric Blue Dempseys are not widely available on the market, and that prices remain high for the species ($30-$60), is due to the fact that breeding Jack Dempseys to achieve Blue Dempseys is a tricky proposition. Two blues bred together will not produce a full blue offspring. To achieve full blue offspring, you must first start with a blue male and breed him with a regular color female Jack Dempsey. The offspring that this pair creates will appear as regular Jack Dempseys, but the difference is that they will carry the blue gene. This group of fish must now be grown out to the size where a female can be determined and selected and bred back to the original blue male. The offspring of this pairing will produce an indeterminant number of true blue variant fish. Obviously a project like this is not for the faint of heart and will require enormous growout type of facilities."

http/www.tropicalresources.net/phpBB2/fi...ciatus_blue.php

 

[Tolak]

It depends on your local market more than anything. Do some research by asking around local shops, trying to find a local aquatics club will help in a big way. Different fish sell better in different areas at different times of the year. Around here it's generally slower in the summer, and picks up starting in the fall through the winter.

You won't make a lot of money breeding fish, if you break even consider yourself lucky. I figured out the time it takes me to raise a spawn of angels to sellable size, and what they sell for a while back. I end up making around $5 per hour. This is after all the equipment is paid for. If I was looking for money I'd shut down most of my tanks, and work an extra day each week, I would be ahead dollar wise, but wouldn't have as much fun.

Depending who I'm selling to, angels go for anywhere from 50 cents to $1.50 each, dime to nickel body size. I deal with a broker who buys 200 every other week, he pays $.50, and sells them for $1 each to about a dozen shops he deals with. A couple of local shops pay $1.50 each, but take 25 or 50 every 2 to 4 weeks. If the market is slow nobody is buying anything, and it's easy to get stuck with hundreds of fish nobody will buy, or even take. Brokers pay less, but buy a lot more & come to your house. Dealing with shops takes more time due to having to deliver, as well as sales skills, but they pay better. It all evens out.

Start out slow, and leave extra space in case the market goes dead. I keep a couple of plastic kiddie wading pools in the garage rafters for emergency overstock.

 

[Mako Man111]

It depends on your local market more than anything. Do some research by asking around local shops, trying to find a local aquatics club will help in a big way. Different fish sell better in different areas at different times of the year. Around here it's generally slower in the summer, and picks up starting in the fall through the winter.

You won't make a lot of money breeding fish, if you break even consider yourself lucky. I figured out the time it takes me to raise a spawn of angels to sellable size, and what they sell for a while back. I end up making around $5 per hour. This is after all the equipment is paid for. If I was looking for money I'd shut down most of my tanks, and work an extra day each week, I would be ahead dollar wise, but wouldn't have as much fun.

Depending who I'm selling to, angels go for anywhere from 50 cents to $1.50 each, dime to nickel body size. I deal with a broker who buys 200 every other week, he pays $.50, and sells them for $1 each to about a dozen shops he deals with. A couple of local shops pay $1.50 each, but take 25 or 50 every 2 to 4 weeks. If the market is slow nobody is buying anything, and it's easy to get stuck with hundreds of fish nobody will buy, or even take. Brokers pay less, but buy a lot more & come to your house. Dealing with shops takes more time due to having to deliver, as well as sales skills, but they pay better. It all evens out.

Start out slow, and leave extra space in case the market goes dead. I keep a couple of plastic kiddie wading pools in the garage rafters for emergency overstock.

Thanks for the info, I also read your awsome guide. Seems at this moment I may be getting a bit over my head to try breeding on a mass scale, maby sometime in the future though it would be something I would enjoy doing.