Fish Breeding Pleas Help

[thelaw]

I am setting up a ciclid breeding project I will be breeding electric blue rams and electric blue jack dempseys I just want to know how much I can /sell the baby's for to my LFS thanks

 

[cambojnr]

You will have to ask your local fish store, and even then they will probably only give you cents per fish.

 

[star4]

Do your research first before breeding. Ask your LFS if they will buy any fish from you, many I found will not pay you for fish, they will take them for free or some will swap fish for dry or frozen food. You need more than one shop to take fish. Cichlids can produce a lot of fry, many shops do not have the room to take 100 fish of the same species - and in the case of the EBJD, these are high priced fish, most shops would only have very few on display for sale.
 
I do not wish to put you off, breeding fish is really nice, but you can end up with lots of fish you just cannot get rid of, you cannot rely on selling them to a LFS. You will also have to look into advertising them elsewhere and possibly also set up to send fish by courier - this gets expensive.

 

[thelaw]

Do your research first before breeding. Ask your LFS if they will buy any fish from you, many I found will not pay you for fish, they will take them for free or some will swap fish for dry or frozen food. You need more than one shop to take fish. Cichlids can produce a lot of fry, many shops do not have the room to take 100 fish of the same species - and in the case of the EBJD, these are high priced fish, most shops would only have very few on display for sale.
 
I do not wish to put you off, breeding fish is really nice, but you can end up with lots of fish you just cannot get rid of, you cannot rely on selling them to a LFS. You will also have to look into advertising them elsewhere and possibly also set up to send fish by courier - this gets expensive.

my friend sells fish to his pet shop and he gets 50% of the money and i do plan on selling to 2 different LFS on craigslist to my youtube viewers and on ebay so can i just have a estimate of how much?

 

[attibones]

That really all depends on your location and your shops. It's not a set in stone kind of thing. The best way is to go to your LFS and ask them how much they charge for theirs, then think about how much they will give you. Then, when selling on the Internet, charge about as much as your LFS plus shipping so you can kind of break even.

 

[thelaw]

That really all depends on your location and your shops. It's not a set in stone kind of thing. The best way is to go to your LFS and ask them how much they charge for theirs, then think about how much they will give you. Then, when selling on the Internet, charge about as much as your LFS plus shipping so you can kind of break even.

ok sweet thanks man 

 

[madmonkey04]

Anything from 50 cents to 3 dollars depending on the health