Great vid as usual. When I was growing up, we bred Blue veil-tail guppies and sold to stores for $2.5-3.00/pair - in 1968! Specialization is the key. People would call from across the state several years after we got out of the business.
Of all the content Creators that breed and share their experiences without a doubt your the best and that's because you have 2 of the qualities needed 2 be successful .....Heart and the Hustle !!! Yeah and you sure can make some awesome videos too 💙 Dean & LRB , tie for 2nd
I once bred Bristlenoses and my trustee shopkeeper accepted the batch. She spent some years selling all of them, they were in the dozens... I also have bred Guppies and Platies, but Bristlenoses are probably the best fish to breed for profit: they take care of their offspring, and the latter is very easy to feed - I threw them bleached vegetables, albeit actually their favourite was... Giant Swordplant (Echinodorus grisebachii) leaves, luckily the plant was big enough it managed curbing the damage and regrow.
How do you get fish stores to take you seriously and not low ball you on your fish? I've had problems with shops not wanting to buy fish from local breeders.
I regurally have my cichlids breeding and I make phytoplankton and culture copepods. The only problem is that fish stores don’t take me seriously as a seller. It’s rather unmotivating
Yeah can be pretty frustrating hey. I could relate to that. What I did that seem to help is to "build" relationships w local aquarium shop owner/workers. I got my supplies from there periodically and I always try to chat w them so they get to know me. Once they get friendly I just ask them if they do buy from local breeders as I have extra livestock (which I bought from them). They are surprisingly pretty happy w that and I've sold few batches already which I actually made net profit (when i calculated how much I've spent in their shop). But it did take me few months to build that relationships though. Plus, their aquarium shop culture is friendlier compared to other shops I've been. So it's a hit and miss.
Jeffery’s got it right, if you walk in saying you’re selling fish they’re probably gonna just ignore it but if they get to know you they’ll take you for real
@@brimen178 yup. I've just recently had a chat w my usual aquarium shop guys and they did told me they get some "funny" people they don't know (not even customers) coming in to sell them stuffs pretty often to the point that it's getting annoying for the shop owner. Plus, as a shop, not knowing the quality of the livestock, parasites, diseases, etc can be a liability for their shop. Hence, why they are very hesitant to just buy off livestock/plants from some random people coming in. Once they get to know you, buy off from you, you get that level of trust. Heck, to the point the shop owner keeps asking what do I do differently that mine keeps breeding!
Hey not sure if you will read this. I propose an experiment. Try and breed a pair of Oscars and document the entire process from purchasing a group, to separating the pair, and then having them lay eggs, etc. There are a few vids on UA-cam, but either in another language or just not helpful.
If you’re going to breed African Cichlids from Lake Malawi, go for the more rare ones. They’re more expensive, but I find them to be hardier and less aggressive, but that’s here in the states. Also they sell better.
From Lake Malawi I would only try mbunas bc the females have colors as well, and try some Tangayikan cichlids as well bc they do well. Especially she’ll dwellers.
If axolotl are legal in ur area they’re great. They’re not in my area but back in the day I had a pair n I never bred amphibians at the time but the first clutch I got from them hatched like 75~85 and with my fish breeding knowledge I was able to have a 90%+ success rate to selling size. Made a tonnnnn
You should focus on rare fish and try to breed them common fish that you find in all fish stores are not a good idea I wish you the best in your project 💯💯💯
you should look at breeding tilapia. there is huge demand from home aquaponics owners who want to buy 50-100 a month and our only real suppliers are the big guys who only sell in batches of thousands.
*Noting all this down for future sales to nicks new store* 👀 Totally realising i have just about all these species already... Id better get motivated to crack down on breeding now xD
I like your channel, the information is dead on from my own experience keeping and breeding. Have you thought about doing a video course ? Video is no different to a fish tank. If the light is behind you then you get shadow shading over your face. Try using a light behind the camera mess about with it and you'll work out where it suits you best. Just an idea and it might bring a slightly more professional look to your channel.
My local shop told me that Endlers can't be imported into Aus as they aren't on the approved import list. They aren't as popular as guppies but you might have a higher chance of selling them to shops given they can't import them in bulk.
Been doing this for decades. You cant beat the kiddie fish as I call them. White Clouds, Cherry barbs, angels, tetras, cheaper corys etc. They move. Specialty fish once the people who want them have them they are slow moving. I make a little bit and put it back into my hobby.
Yay for African Cichlids! They are a great option! They are so easy to breed and popular. I even accidentally bred mine and one of the fry grew up in my tank 😂
For my area, african cichlids aren't popular at all and i tried selling my shell dwelling similis and my local fish stores bsically said they wouldnt take them if i paid them to take them.
@@Ilostmyschmungus damn, that's rough 😂 Where I am Malawi Cichlids are quite popular, but the variety of Tanganyikan cichlids available is minimal and mostly shell dwellers (which also don't seem that popular here)
I’ve been waiting for this updated list! I started into the hobby right around when you posted the first one of these videos and now I’m actually starting to get into breeding fish for profit
I´ve been a half professional fish breeder (it means I got half of my income from fish breeding) and you have some good advice here. I just wanted to add something about guppy. Basically everywhere you hear about guppy it is said that they are so easy to breed. Some strains are truly not. Some really professional breeders go for brackish water and use a lot of antibiotics. These guppys often look great and will sell very good - but they are very difficult to breed (even to keep them alive in a normal tank can be hard). With Endlers or if you find an old strain (check old the old aquarium folks, they sometimes have some amazingly easy to breed livebearers), that will pretty much "take care of themselves", especially if one gives them some high quality food. My point is that some guppys are worthy of the nickname "Millionfish", but some strains are basically as hard to breed as Discus. I personally view the "extreme professional" guppy breeding as bad for the hobby. Kids will buy these fish and they die fast. Also - some guppy breeders that know about genetics will only sell fish that they have cross paired with another strain. The first generation will look as their parents, but if you get these "F1" guppys to breed, their offspring will not look like their parents. I am kind of impressed with that trick.
@@metametameta69 Not sure what is meant by "good genetics", but for breeders that want to sell fish (no matter what), it is usually color/new color variants, big fins and size. For breeders that breed for guppy competitions, it is more complicated. There are twelve fin variants (you need to get a particular fin variant as perfect as possible) and you need to have three very similar males on display. The size of the fish is not very important; you simply need three very similarly colored males with a perfect fin variant. For other breeders, they go for survival rate. To make the kids happy, because the fish survives and give babies. A rare variant of breeders nowadays. Happy kids and sad parents, because the kids will want a second tank to raise the babies. :)
Mbuna were the first first I ever bred, fun to watch as many are mouthbrooders. I was getting $1 each at maybe half inch size in the 90s. Not as popular as they were then, but I had an OB zebra pair that was reliably cranking out 30 or so fry a month - paid for my fish food for quite some time.
Dude! I just turned 65 and never really thought about breeding fish. I am hooked on rainbows and I am finally on board to try to raise them because I can remember how many times there is nothing available at the LFS.
Endlers are good - theres hardly any on the Gold Coast. Kribensis are easy to breed and look after their babies really well. Theyre also adorable. they sort of 'bounce' around the bottom of the tank. Electric Yellows are also easy. High Quality Shrimp - blue dream, bloody marys. Snowballs etc are really good to breed and sell
Why do you breed cheap fishes is better go for expensive and popular fishes like the clown fish, you will spend the same money and space that breeding fresh water fishes but you will get more money and are easier to sell. Also the coral is expensive and easy to breed like the zoas. In fresh water i will go for flower horns or discus. Maybe electric blue dempseys or transgenic fishes you are in australia is easy to get crazy sh!t from thailand.
Can you stop telling people that you won't make money off of this you can make money, it's just not enough to become a millionaire but you're pulling people down by those comments saying you won't make any money, you can make some decent money if you sold them online
You make great videos my dude. Editing is a pain in the ass, I know from experience…so I applaud you for taking the time to make quality vids given all your fish related work.
I've accidentally bred some fish, but I consider myself pretty lucky. Got a pretty decent relationship with our lfg, and he just gives me credits for other supplies I buy from his store. What does everyone think of breeding birchirs?
If anyone is considering African cichlids to breed I recommend any of the shell dwelling cichlids they are easy to breed and you can breed most of them in colony tanks.
Forgot to write how many reads becos a hint, due to attacks. Anyone any idea to just bypass a ruling and let me breakthrough off a harassment not like an attack? Or hidden due to preaches?
I was breeding African cichlids in the 90's not far from where you are now. It was a good high school side hustle and paid for my fish food, but you won't make any decent money out of it in Brisbane. They're easy to breed. But the broods are too small in number and you have to put too much work into getting them away from the parents and growing them to a saleable size.
Brisiel noses have been the same price since day 1 $2 at 4cms has always been the price cichlids like Africans are 1 of the eases to breed I have sold 1000's of them but get One like electric yellows dolphins peacocks are good to but most people just want the males Johanie people like colorful fish where electric blue males are pretty the females are just drab and another good 1 but hard to breed are hump heads there a bugger to get pairs and are a little harder to find but sell for a good price at 4cm's
The guppies yeah I had three from a shop and cost some lead of money from were they don’t do what they should be so I am always looking for small companies
I mistakenly unintentionally read bristle nose coming out my ears!! I had a lot of different tanks and there was a Water accident from the city and all my beautiful Thailand imported guppies and the babies died! Hundred dollars gone. But anyway so the fish that were left or my panda quarries and my bristle nose I put them all in a 55 gallon and they were happy to meet each other oh my gosh!
Great vid as usual. When I was growing up, we bred Blue veil-tail guppies and sold to stores for $2.5-3.00/pair - in 1968! Specialization is the key. People would call from across the state several years after we got out of the business.
Of all the content Creators that breed and share their experiences without a doubt your the best and that's because you have 2 of the qualities needed 2 be successful .....Heart and the Hustle !!! Yeah and you sure can make some awesome videos too 💙 Dean & LRB , tie for 2nd
I once bred Bristlenoses and my trustee shopkeeper accepted the batch. She spent some years selling all of them, they were in the dozens... I also have bred Guppies and Platies, but Bristlenoses are probably the best fish to breed for profit: they take care of their offspring, and the latter is very easy to feed - I threw them bleached vegetables, albeit actually their favourite was... Giant Swordplant (Echinodorus grisebachii) leaves, luckily the plant was big enough it managed curbing the damage and regrow.
*blanched lol
Thank you for including price suggestions!!!
How do you get fish stores to take you seriously and not low ball you on your fish? I've had problems with shops not wanting to buy fish from local breeders.
I regurally have my cichlids breeding and I make phytoplankton and culture copepods. The only problem is that fish stores don’t take me seriously as a seller. It’s rather unmotivating
Yeah can be pretty frustrating hey. I could relate to that. What I did that seem to help is to "build" relationships w local aquarium shop owner/workers. I got my supplies from there periodically and I always try to chat w them so they get to know me. Once they get friendly I just ask them if they do buy from local breeders as I have extra livestock (which I bought from them). They are surprisingly pretty happy w that and I've sold few batches already which I actually made net profit (when i calculated how much I've spent in their shop).
But it did take me few months to build that relationships though. Plus, their aquarium shop culture is friendlier compared to other shops I've been. So it's a hit and miss.
Jeffery’s got it right, if you walk in saying you’re selling fish they’re probably gonna just ignore it but if they get to know you they’ll take you for real
@@brimen178 yup. I've just recently had a chat w my usual aquarium shop guys and they did told me they get some "funny" people they don't know (not even customers) coming in to sell them stuffs pretty often to the point that it's getting annoying for the shop owner. Plus, as a shop, not knowing the quality of the livestock, parasites, diseases, etc can be a liability for their shop. Hence, why they are very hesitant to just buy off livestock/plants from some random people coming in.
Once they get to know you, buy off from you, you get that level of trust. Heck, to the point the shop owner keeps asking what do I do differently that mine keeps breeding!
I have given shops freebies of my clutches to prove the quality of my fish, and as others have said, get to know them first.
Thank you for sharing your experiences... You truly inspire the rest of us who want to pursue this hobby!
Hey good to see you grow up online with the fish hobby
He's come a long way
Great video can't wait to see your shop. Just got some peppermints and I'll get some more when you open. Best of luck
when I first saw your content, I started to like it, keep up the good work. 👍
Yay! Thanks for the updated breeding for profit video. I enjoy your videos and it’s inspiring me to further push my hobby
Please do you have recommended Australian pleco ‘how to” references
Hey not sure if you will read this. I propose an experiment. Try and breed a pair of Oscars and document the entire process from purchasing a group, to separating the pair, and then having them lay eggs, etc. There are a few vids on UA-cam, but either in another language or just not helpful.
have done some breeding for shops as wel, realy good hints!
Ty for the timestamp brother
At least in America, quality guppies sell well. Unfortunately, stores don't have quality guppies
Day 9 of asking where in Brisbane your fish shop is, btw I loved this video ❤️
started a panda cory project, got my fish (12) 2 months ago and got all my setup done. I'm eager to see how it's going to turn up.
Thanks for all the info mate 👍 👌 you got a new sub
If you’re going to breed African Cichlids from Lake Malawi, go for the more rare ones. They’re more expensive, but I find them to be hardier and less aggressive, but that’s here in the states. Also they sell better.
From Lake Malawi I would only try mbunas bc the females have colors as well, and try some Tangayikan cichlids as well bc they do well. Especially she’ll dwellers.
If axolotl are legal in ur area they’re great. They’re not in my area but back in the day I had a pair n I never bred amphibians at the time but the first clutch I got from them hatched like 75~85 and with my fish breeding knowledge I was able to have a 90%+ success rate to selling size. Made a tonnnnn
You should focus on rare fish and try to breed them common fish that you find in all fish stores are not a good idea I wish you the best in your project 💯💯💯
Appreciate you giving such genuine tips on breeding and make some cash too...
🙏🇱🇰
Dayum Bro looks majestic
I have kribensis and they are great to breed
Also on Endlers can they breed with normal female guppies? I can only source male Endlers locally here.
you should look at breeding tilapia. there is huge demand from home aquaponics owners who want to buy 50-100 a month and our only real suppliers are the big guys who only sell in batches of thousands.
big tank needed
Where's the shop?
What about the Luminata fish?
I was thinking of selling angelfish any thoughts
What about the bettas ?
... just paid like 25$ for a baby panda Cory in nt qld yesterday :( -2023-
If you can stock some wild species like wild Altums for a reasonable cost,I swear I’ll be your biggest customer.
Are you going to sell online as I live in Stanthorpe and so I have to buy my fish online?
Is your fish shop going to be open to anyone just to walk in and look around?
Yoo. I want to get shrimp to my aquarium but iam worried that they wilo breed and overtake it. How do i control their population?
The third fish that you've mentioned, I can buy 10 of it in just 1$😅😅
*Noting all this down for future sales to nicks new store* 👀 Totally realising i have just about all these species already... Id better get motivated to crack down on breeding now xD
You are so good-looking!
Me who don’t NOT breed fish or sell fish:Mhmmhm I could do that
Can you pls make video for weather/dojo loach, and more specific how to tell if is male or female, thank you.
They're illegal in Brisbane so he can't get any (probably)
I’m not sure what it’s like in America but here you have to have a license to sell bred fish
Don’t matter just get paid in cash
It's a local/state matter in the US but most require a license. I think its $40 per year in Ohio.
I like your channel, the information is dead on from my own experience keeping and breeding. Have you thought about doing a video course ? Video is no different to a fish tank. If the light is behind you then you get shadow shading over your face. Try using a light behind the camera mess about with it and you'll work out where it suits you best. Just an idea and it might bring a slightly more professional look to your channel.
You are greatest hobbit i ever seen
🧭🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🏋️🏋️🤸🤸🏼♀️
Are they salt water fish 🐠! I just have a regular fish 🐟 tank
Move to marine if you want $
First omg
Platy Fish 😊
I plan on breeding Panda Corydoras since they're so cute I need more!
My local shop told me that Endlers can't be imported into Aus as they aren't on the approved import list. They aren't as popular as guppies but you might have a higher chance of selling them to shops given they can't import them in bulk.
It may be illegal but i guarantee you they are still imported in large numbers every year
Been doing this for decades. You cant beat the kiddie fish as I call them. White Clouds, Cherry barbs, angels, tetras, cheaper corys etc. They move. Specialty fish once the people who want them have them they are slow moving. I make a little bit and put it back into my hobby.
Yay for African Cichlids! They are a great option! They are so easy to breed and popular. I even accidentally bred mine and one of the fry grew up in my tank 😂
Just looking at trying to breed Cichlids
For my area, african cichlids aren't popular at all and i tried selling my shell dwelling similis and my local fish stores bsically said they wouldnt take them if i paid them to take them.
@@Ilostmyschmungus damn, that's rough 😂 Where I am Malawi Cichlids are quite popular, but the variety of Tanganyikan cichlids available is minimal and mostly shell dwellers (which also don't seem that popular here)
I’ve been waiting for this updated list! I started into the hobby right around when you posted the first one of these videos and now I’m actually starting to get into breeding fish for profit
I have 200 bristlenose fry that I’m looking to offload in about 3 months (I am a brisbane local)😉
You'll have another 600 by the time the 200 are ready lol
I´ve been a half professional fish breeder (it means I got half of my income from fish breeding) and you have some good advice here. I just wanted to add something about guppy. Basically everywhere you hear about guppy it is said that they are so easy to breed. Some strains are truly not. Some really professional breeders go for brackish water and use a lot of antibiotics. These guppys often look great and will sell very good - but they are very difficult to breed (even to keep them alive in a normal tank can be hard).
With Endlers or if you find an old strain (check old the old aquarium folks, they sometimes have some amazingly easy to breed livebearers), that will pretty much "take care of themselves", especially if one gives them some high quality food. My point is that some guppys are worthy of the nickname "Millionfish", but some strains are basically as hard to breed as Discus.
I personally view the "extreme professional" guppy breeding as bad for the hobby. Kids will buy these fish and they die fast. Also - some guppy breeders that know about genetics will only sell fish that they have cross paired with another strain. The first generation will look as their parents, but if you get these "F1" guppys to breed, their offspring will not look like their parents. I am kind of impressed with that trick.
What would be considered “good genetics” that guppy breeders breed for ?
@@metametameta69 Not sure what is meant by "good genetics", but for breeders that want to sell fish (no matter what), it is usually color/new color variants, big fins and size.
For breeders that breed for guppy competitions, it is more complicated. There are twelve fin variants (you need to get a particular fin variant as perfect as possible) and you need to have three very similar males on display. The size of the fish is not very important; you simply need three very similarly colored males with a perfect fin variant.
For other breeders, they go for survival rate. To make the kids happy, because the fish survives and give babies. A rare variant of breeders nowadays. Happy kids and sad parents, because the kids will want a second tank to raise the babies. :)
Mbuna were the first first I ever bred, fun to watch as many are mouthbrooders. I was getting $1 each at maybe half inch size in the 90s. Not as popular as they were then, but I had an OB zebra pair that was reliably cranking out 30 or so fry a month - paid for my fish food for quite some time.
Dude! I just turned 65 and never really thought about breeding fish. I am hooked on rainbows and I am finally on board to try to raise them because I can remember how many times there is nothing available at the LFS.
Dude has literally jumped 100k subs since I joined 6-7 months ago, insane 🙌🏻🔥
Hello! Great video! What’s the name of the white spotted plecos we can see at 3:59? Thanks
My boss, I work at a fish shop, almost solely gives store credit which kinda sucks if youre looking for a bit of cash
What’s your store called
Endlers are good - theres hardly any on the Gold Coast.
Kribensis are easy to breed and look after their babies really well. Theyre also adorable. they sort of 'bounce' around the bottom of the tank.
Electric Yellows are also easy.
High Quality Shrimp - blue dream, bloody marys. Snowballs etc are really good to breed and sell
Why do you breed cheap fishes is better go for expensive and popular fishes like the clown fish, you will spend the same money and space that breeding fresh water fishes but you will get more money and are easier to sell. Also the coral is expensive and easy to breed like the zoas. In fresh water i will go for flower horns or discus. Maybe electric blue dempseys or transgenic fishes you are in australia is easy to get crazy sh!t from thailand.
Cichlids, Shell Dwellers breed fairly easily
Definitely
i think that the fish clowns are more profitable, then discus, flower horns, bettas, gold fish, kois.
Can you stop telling people that you won't make money off of this you can make money, it's just not enough to become a millionaire but you're pulling people down by those comments saying you won't make any money, you can make some decent money if you sold them online
Need to supplement income. Would fish breeding be profitable to make extra $1-2k a month?
Hello. I am breeding Nannostomus mortenthaleri. Now their is profit too.. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Heb je betta vis geprobeerd??
@@RiskTaker32 Ja . Staat geloof ik ook op mijn UA-cam kanaal.maar ik vind Betta's lastig.
zebra plecos are 10$ each in China breeding size and AA grades. I think Australia is too over priced
You make great videos my dude. Editing is a pain in the ass, I know from experience…so I applaud you for taking the time to make quality vids given all your fish related work.
I went into PetSmart and opened my trenchcoat and said look at my cocatoides! They did not buy from me.
I want to get into breeding and i would like to start with shrimps any suggestions?
Do you live near Houston? I have shit ton of platinum angle babies
I've accidentally bred some fish, but I consider myself pretty lucky. Got a pretty decent relationship with our lfg, and he just gives me credits for other supplies I buy from his store.
What does everyone think of breeding birchirs?
If anyone is considering African cichlids to breed I recommend any of the shell dwelling cichlids they are easy to breed and you can breed most of them in colony tanks.
Yes I agree , they are quite easy as well and very entertaining🙂👍🏻
Good video mr Nick! If everyone start breeding them for profit the prices will go down due to supply and demand tho 🤔🤷♂️😉🥰🐶
Is it easy to sell these fish on eBay?
Yeah or mercari
@@jaxxonfishroommerica let’s u sell them?
If a Pet Shop Franchise is How Much Investment(issit something like this?)?
Forgot to write how many reads becos a hint, due to attacks. Anyone any idea to just bypass a ruling and let me breakthrough off a harassment not like an attack? Or hidden due to preaches?
thanks, where do you recommend getting starter beeding tanks (im also in brisbane so local is fine)
Thanks for the advice. I am going to set up a paludarium with hermit crabs and guppies so this was really helpful
I breed guppies and managed to breed a corydora ...
Always fun to watch you work. Keep up the good work and let's build this hobby in Australia. Andy
Wow, this video was amazing! Very helpful and informative! You did an amazing job and keep up the incredible work!👍
uk way more expensive on the plecos
It's always about making money
i’d just want to make 60k a year lol
How to know the pleco is male or female
What are you feeding yåu L333
I was breeding African cichlids in the 90's not far from where you are now. It was a good high school side hustle and paid for my fish food, but you won't make any decent money out of it in Brisbane. They're easy to breed. But the broods are too small in number and you have to put too much work into getting them away from the parents and growing them to a saleable size.
Want to sell some of your endlers?
I’d be happy making $50,000 a year to be honest. But I’m a betta fan and I want to breed them because I love them.
Wish I lived in Aussieland. You guys pay WAY too much for fish.
Nah, we don’t
yes you do@@AxomasYT
Hay sir are you in amarica ?
Brisiel noses have been the same price since day 1 $2 at 4cms has always been the price cichlids like Africans are 1 of the eases to breed I have sold 1000's of them but get One like electric yellows dolphins peacocks are good to but most people just want the males Johanie people like colorful fish where electric blue males are pretty the females are just drab and another good 1 but hard to breed are hump heads there a bugger to get pairs and are a little harder to find but sell for a good price at 4cm's
Ain't no way bro, I was watching kaimuki backyard when I was 14 too, he's the best 😭
The guppies yeah I had three from a shop and cost some lead of money from were they don’t do what they should be so I am always looking for small companies
Cichlids have been, become unbelievably expensive four fish that super simple to breed
You are lucky to be in Australia. In Europa You would not be able to get that much for fish
You fail to mention, that you are going to sell very very small amounts of 500$ fish.
I mistakenly unintentionally read bristle nose coming out my ears!! I had a lot of different tanks and there was a Water accident from the city and all my beautiful Thailand imported guppies and the babies died! Hundred dollars gone. But anyway so the fish that were left or my panda quarries and my bristle nose I put them all in a 55 gallon and they were happy to meet each other oh my gosh!