Breeding For $$$

[minnnt]

About £10 each. These will produce more than 100 i reckon too. 30 gallon is more than enough for BN's and their fry. Once the male has kicked them out chuck them back in your main tank so the male don't kill the young.

 

[Scott MacAdam]

Cool. My LFS is actually closing and when I was in there today I saw that all their tanks are going cheap. 130gal full setup for $500(CAD) and 40-50gal breeders (tanks only) for $50(CAD) I could run in and pick a few up if I needed it. I may be able to expand my operation a bit here...

 

[minnnt]

haha, sounds like a plan mate.

 

[KkAaNnEe]

Lol remember you gotta find a decent pair first, you might need to buy 5-6 to narrow it down, also rams are not easy to keep alive IME, but do your research and you'll be fine

 

[Scott MacAdam]

Yeah, I'm not too worried about keeping them alive or the cost of buying them in the first place. It shouldn't be a problem.

Maybe I should go for the 130gal and try for discuss. Anyone breed them before? They fetch a good price.

 

[Harlequins]

Just going along the cory line, black schultzi,green lasers & gold lasers can sell around £15-£40 each depending where you go...very in demand compared to the usual corys...

 

[Scott MacAdam]

Thats actually quite a price for corries... I've never seen anything other than the regular black/brown ($1-2CAD) ones here. I'm not even sure where I'd get such fish to begin with, even if I wanted to go ahead with breeding them...

 

[nehpets81]

Might be a bit random, but have you considered some of the rarer snails? They might be relatively easier to post which should open up the market a bit... Never tried it myself, but just occured to me!

 

[Scott MacAdam]

I've actually never considered snails. That would actually be fairly easy I assume. Any suggestions on what kind? I'm sure I could just order a bunch online, they seem rather resilient...

 

[TwoTankAmin17]

You can make money to cover some of your hobby costs. However, you made the mistake in your post of ruling it out. Rarer plecos, esp some of the Hypancistrus and a few others are one of the best ways I know. The reasons are simple- these fish are getting harder to come by from the wild and some will be made extinct due to damming of rivers. Moreover, they are not being spawned in tanks in larger numbers and some never will be.

My advice is look to spawn things that you can sell for a minimum of $25-40/3-4cm fish or more. Fish that sell for a lot are either harder to spawn, take longer to reach spawning age/size, or spawn sizes are small or some combination of those factors.

All I can tell you is my breeding colony of H. zebra have paid me back what they cost, covered all my hobby costs before I got them and then all the hobby costs since then.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I would recommend Killifish, Ricefish or Rainbow fish- there are many stunning varieties and a fair few of them are pretty simple & easy to breed. My Oryzias Woworae ( http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3132) spawned without me having to do anything special at all- just some good food and a missed water change lol ! And they're much more unusual than the usual livebearers, cichlids & corys .

 

[Scott MacAdam]

Awesome, I've never kept killi fish but i've always been interested. The only thing is I've never seen them for sale where I live (or in any city near here) could I order them online without paying a ton of money for fish that arrive dead? Lol

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Awesome, I've never kept killi fish but i've always been interested. The only thing is I've never seen them for sale where I live (or in any city near here) could I order them online without paying a ton of money for fish that arrive dead? Lol

I've never ordered fish online myself but i do know that the Gold Medaka is very hardy fish which can survive both cold water, tropical water, saltwater, brackish & freshwater conditions and has been kept for centuries (making it one of the oldest aquarium fish) and is also easy to breed so i'm sure you'll have no problem with those. Its a pretty plain killifish/ricefish but there are numerous colour variations of Medaka's.
Medaka fish info ;

http/www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-medaka.htm

http/animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/Killifish/MoonlightMedaka.php

Killifish breeding & general info (really good);

http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/Killifish/index.html

They also stay pretty small at 1.6inches large tops and are totally peaceful fish and so make a great community fish for wide size range of peaceful community fish aquariums. They are shoaling fish with like a bit of planting in their tank and will eat a varietry of fish foods . Despite being around for centuries in countries like Japan, they don't seem to be that common yet in the aquarium hobby in the west, so i would personally recommend them as an easy started breeding fish.