Making up to $400 Profit A Month In A 10 Gallon Aquarium (From Home) Breeding Shrimp, Fish & Plants.
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- If i sold the whole tank it would likely retail around 500 but 300 is a reasonable profit with this system at full steam. Some of the most profitable fish fit in the smallest spaces! Celestial Pearl Danios, Pseudomugil Rainbowfish (Luminatus & Gertrude). Scarlet Badis, Panda Loaches, Neocaridina Shrimp, Japanese Shortnose Caridina Color Changing Shrimp, amongst other critters, like corydoras, tetra, and potentially plants!
Making up to $300 A Month In A 10 Gallon Aquarium - Breeding 2 Shrimp & 3 Fish Species
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To add to your example of pulling a plant out of one tank and leaving it in another, I happened to get exactly two assassin snail eggs or maybe even young hiding in a pennywort plant I picked up at the local fish store. It came in a pot with five stems, and before I knew it, there were these two strange stripey snails mixed in with the normal pest snails. Over the next month or two, I started to notice fewer and fewer snails in the tank. And more empty shells. As this process progressed, I noticed that more and more of the, as of yet unidentified, assassins were cropping up. I now have a total of six, and they're slowly hunting their prey snails to extinction. I'm eyeing some MTS myself because they bear live young as opposed to the large clutches laid by other species; the aeration of the substrate is purely a bonus.
Wow, that went farther than I planned. Another great example of how this hobby can surprise you, and evolve over time.
Great info. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
You know I've been following for awhile. I love all the things you've done with the wonder tank, and how you've taken us along step by step. Lots of good information.
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Thank you, as always. You rock!
as a German i was a bit confused to hear the word Aufwuchs during your explanation. It´s a German word :)
Hahah yes, we share this word... while we can't seem to catch up to your skill and diversity in the hobby....we can steal your words! Haha cheers, my friend
Alot of USA is German decent including my family. 🍻
My Celestial Pearl Danios and Sparkling Gouramis (I keep them both in the same tank) have got the bloodlust when it comes to shrimp. Just bought some really nice cherry shrimp and they've immediately become snacks.
Sometimes it seems they learn to start eating them...especially the gouramis
Thank you sir! You taught me a lot about shrimp and culls! I don’t really got the money to buy all 20 high quality shrimp so going with cheap culls and working my way up will really make my life easier and also more fun!
Totally. I started my latest colony with 20 cheap cheap culls of the same color grade red...and then they had babies, some of which were really really nice (they were culls from a painted fire line, so the grandkids of the culls had about 20% grade A babies out of 10 to 30 babies each time...so within 6 months I had a colony of painted fires.... sold the culls and kept improving their opacity and how vivid they looked.
How are you doing with your shrimp?
I went the cull shrimp route, and a year later I have the most beautiful shrimp around. I can name my own price $$$
Very Informative video! You have an awesome tank with great algae eaters!
Wow, those blue eyed fish are cool!
I love psuedomugils
Awesome tank and a wealth of good information. Cheers.
Thank you very much
This is the first video of yours I ever watched! 💖
Aww shucks, thanks 😊
Amazing tips, very helpful thank you.
Also, good on you for trying to keep panda loaches going :)
Thank you kindly! They're one of my favorite fish. I actually lost them during a 115 degree heat wave last summer, and I wish I could get a new colony again
Great information in your videos! I’ve watched 3 this am so far. I hope you are open to conversations.
Totally. Thanks for watching!
Thankyou for the video! :)
Thank you for watching, my friend!
Always great content and information
Glad you think so! Thanks for coming by
@@Fishtory would you mind rating my tank and maybe proving input?
Great video, from South Africa
Thank you so much for watching! I truly appreciate it. Also, i dream of visiting South Africa some day. I hope you have a great week! Cheers
I know this is a little old, but just seeing it -- those panda loaches are awesome!!! Great tank, too, of course. :)
They don't live long...but they're amazing while they are around with us for 2-3 years. Or so
Yeah they're cool
Those are the bluest blue shrimp I have seen yet!
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thank you so much for this video
No worries! Best of luck, also
Our shrimps are related 🥰
A good antihistamine or Pseudoephedrine should get rid of those stopped up nasal passages you got going there. Good luck, I found Sudafed really helps me a lot when my nose gets stopped up and sound nasally
Yeah, thanks. That's my usual go-to solution also citrizine or hydrozine too...but that ended up being a sinus infection that lasted 2 months before I finally gave in (after netti-pots and rinses, ginger, honey and over the counter meds).... finally antibiotics cleared it in 48 hours
Damn two month sinus infection? Wow that is agonizing. If you are like me and get those kind of sinus problems often watch you ears because it can effect your ear drums. I am now 100% deaf in both ears because I ignored a finest infection. I was told if I had taken some Sudafed before it got too bad I wouldn't be in this predicament
17:58 "And then it's time for them to Move Out and Get A JOB" xD hahah that was so funny for some reason
Haha I’m about to do this in some 6 gallons I have.
It's a great hobbyist way to pay for your hobby a bit, that's for sure
I thought he was insane, but apparently the little blue shrimp do actually sell for 8 to 10 dollars each, and the rainbowfish or celestial pearl danios/ the female and male pairs sell for up to 30 locally! It's hard to find a female in Seattle I guess. Ok good work honey, I didn't believe you about making money in these tanks...especially the insane price of bucafilandra per plant!
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Subbed. Great video mate.
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thought you saying the snails actually exploded if overfed .... hahahahaha .... still laughing
Bwhahahahaha... you just made my day. Guppies will in fact do that though lol
I really admire your deep knowledge and effort to share it with us thank you, and one thing I have a 20 gallon planted thank and used some shrimps for co2 purposes now they are breeding like crazy so how can I make money here in Seattle?
Keep culling shrimp.... get a very high quality line (neos can sell for 7 or 8 dollars each if you have a good line... caridina... some are 100 or 150$ easily for new strains.) Get on the local GSAS club forums or Craigslist or whatnot.... offer to sell something like shrimp food or plants if they dont allow selling animals...then when people message you...you can tell them you have the shrimp...in the photo for the thing your supposedly selling...just have the background full of the shrimp you have for sale haha.
Also getgills.com and aquabid.com are good sites to sell on... but my favorite is bartering for something more valuable, then you both win big.
Also if you sell to stores they only pay 1 to 3 dollars a shrimp... since they always need to make 3 or 4x what they buy livestock for (just the normal business model).... so trying to sell hobbyist to hobbyist is by far the best plan. Also rotate tanks...ideally have 3 or 4 ....and have plants and shrimp plus a livebearer that's nice and rare, or nanofish/ or snails that are in demand ...mystery snails for example. Then you can really reliable start to make money and not have to wait for the tank and populations to rebound.
Best of luck sir!
@@Fishtory thank you very much I'll try it
@@teddyk001 so did you make money?
Hi there, really enjoy your video and great info of your well-set system. I have badis in my tank, I love them and saw there is mating activity going on. That come to my next concern: how can the spawn survive from snails? I saw you have snails in the tank as well, how can you avoid the badis's eggs being eaten by snails and do you extract the eggs from the tank before they hatch? Hope you can share a bit more about it. Thanks.
So the father badis is super aggressive while eggs are around and he will push the snails away if they come near his eggs
I came across a group on Facebook that asks to breed endangered fish to be re-released
Yes several groups do this. Usually when a habitat is now restored but the species is near extinct in the wild
I dont have any circulation in my 5 gallon , no co2. Just plants like java moss, hornswort, and some small plants like subwastertang. I get alot of hair algae. Its not a bad thinh for the shrimps it looks ugly to me. Help please how to grt rid of it?
quick question. do shrimps really need a lot of plants and hiding spots to breed and or mature?
Yes they need to feel safe. Live plants are always better than plastic
I really hope you are able to get the pandas to breed!!?? That's some good money for one small tank!!!! Keep up all great work ✌️🐟☮️🌿🦐
Thank you...ive had eggs and even fry, but they only seem to eat algae and bacterial colonies like auwfuchs - off moving stones that are emersed (similar to alge on a HOB spillway thats been left uncleaned for months)....so this round im literally prepping rocks covered in algae and moss in moving water for the fry...fingers crossed
@@Fishtory yeah go for it, I would even say that the fact you have gotten eggs to fry stage is a incredible achievement!!! Keep us updated!!
@@Fishtory Did you have success then ?
@Detective Lopez only 3 babies were born of the panda loaches sadly.... 2 showed up one day and 1 showed up a few months later...never sucessful at raising any more than that sadly
Those blue eyed little fish are really pretty. Loved seeing everything you keep in this tank. Love the blue dreams. I've sold some of my higher quality cherry shrimp in the past to my lfs for 1.50 each and I think they were selling them for $3.00. I may try and sell some blue dreams when my colony gets bigger.
Yeah they definitely command at least 5.99 bare minimum in most of the usa ... Seattle pays 8 or 9 retail for good quality...i try and sell person to person since i have some of the best quality out there with this line....i started culling at 80% 2 or 3 years ago and now im only culling 20% of them, since i took my time. I Have a video specifically on grading blue neocaridina shrimp, if you're interested
@@Fishtory Oh, I was talking about my higher grade cherry shrimp/fire red even... that I've sold for 1.50 at my lfs. (I would have been paid a little more if I continued selling with them but I got really sick and it took many months to get back to myself. Anyway,.. I wouldn't sell my blue dreams for just 1.50. I paid I think 6 or 7.00. My lfs is great because usually if you purchase 10 of any schooling fish or shrimp they give you a discount and they also give me another discount for something??? Membership???. They have been great with me. I think I may have seen your blue dream culling video. I'll try and find it later in the week. Thanks.
Which test kits would you suggest for keeping the water quality of the shrimp tank good for breeding? I am loosing my cherry shrimps and I don't know what is going wrong. Most of the deaths are due a term called the WHITE RING OF DEATH
So you probably need a kh and gh test kit from API (Liquid version) ....it'd good to double check ammonia and nitrates nitrites too though... any of those 3 being detected can kill shrimp..
And you need a kh of 3-8 and gh of 4-12 or so
Usually you can also check TDS total devolved Solids for 12 dollar electronic sticks too....I think I linked to this gear in the description too
You remind me of tybot
Can fish (specifically live bearers) breed in fake planted tank?? accidentally bred them in a live planted tank, just not sure with the (heavily) fake- planted one??
Yes, livebearers will breed just as much in a fake plant tank, however I would assume more babies will be eaten by their parents while growing out, because the fake plants generally give fish less hiding spots
Have you ever tried selling on aquabid?
A bit...but i hate shipping, i like getgills.com (owned by a fellow friend and youtuber)...and bottom line, shipping eats into profit if i can sell person to person and pump 30 top notch shrimp out a month and get 10 dollars each or 8 dollars....then sell the culls to stores for 3 a piece or whatever
Are you do siphoning there ? Or just do water changing ? How often you do that ? Thanks
Just surface siphoning if there aren't too many tiny shrimplettes around ...if there are (then stretch cheese cloth or panty hose over the intake of the gravel vacuum as a screen. That'll save the babies!) But im just getting old food and some loose poop up...usually id recommend not disturbing the actual deep substrates- especially on any tank over 6 months old.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium so siphoning didnt recomended for shrimp tank ? I just started 1 week ago, and almost everyday i got my shrimp died.. so confuse whats wrong there, so just keep cleaning the surface and patient right ? Thanks mate 🙏
What is your take on planeria?
Do you have a video on it?
Yes i have a few videos on it... as long as baby shrimp arent in the tank.... then i dont care, i assume that im feeding a bit too much and cut back
@@Fishtory i do have baby shrimp. But i dont want to use stuff that will harm them
does anyone know what the container he puts his culls in
It a floating fry pen ...and also you can use Tupperware, a dip and scopp fish holder or another tank
What food with calcium carbonate are you using?
Usually I hunt for plain tums or egg shells and grind it up into a dust then mix it with garlic paste or pureé and add some blanched shelled peas, zucchini and sometimes blood worms or black worms, then freeze it in ice cube trays and toss them in the tanks as 1cm³ ice cubes or normal wedge icecubes for angels and cichlids.
However Hikari and tetra have several foods for vegetarian fish/ and snails or inverts..I wanna say "tetra veggie wafers" and Hikari snail and crab, along with Hikari crustaceans Pellets if they're the ones made and packaged in Japan and not North America or Europe.
Dont your shrimps cross breed? Thought you were supposed to keep em separate
Yes - HOWEVER...Depends on species and strains. I have a bunch of videos on the genetics of it.
Man, if you still have any of those panda loaches I'd like to get some
I do have a family of 12, but it's not spawning season until fall again.
@@Fishtory thank you. I will try to remember to get back up with you then
Do you have a way to find at least one female scarlet badis?
I recently found a new one after 5 months of checking 4 shops weekly lol
@@Fishtory I'll tell you what, if you make babies I'd love to buy/trade for a female or two!
how many times do you feed your shrimps?
Usually a pellet of food per 2 shrimp, every other day in a food dish
How many shrimp i need to start from to sell 50-100 shrimp per week and how long it will take me to reach this goal.
I would say you'd need a few hundred if you want to sell weekly. Usually each healthy female has babies about every 4 to 6 months (if you count time they space out between spawns...even though some can spawn every 45 days on cue if lucky) and say 10 to 20 babies survive if you care for them well. So if you start with 20? shrimp and 10 are female then you'll be making 150 to 300 shrimp a year just from those females probably ....and those babies will take 6 to 8 months to mature fully...then they'll have babies and if you expand the tanks, you could see likely 300 to 500 shrimp In the first year... but the more you sell off quickly...the less breeders you'll have, so I always keep 50 to 60 adults in a tank and sell any extras beyond that number
Best cheap lighting for this? Thanks
Fluval Stingray or fluval aquasky is decent. Ot flood lights with any floodlights with Cree LED diodes at Lowes or Home Depot
You can always make your own now with waterproof LED strip lighting
how are the loaches not eating the shrimp?
Panda loaches only eat algae and tiny worms/planaria the literally let the baby shrimp sit on their heads lol
My CPD breeds like crazy I have like 50 fry, but don't know how to sell them.
Where do you live? Id post to the email or forum/ group page of your closest aquarium club / association.
Also pet stores will likely pay 2 or 2.50 a fish whole sale... maybe give you 3 credit
But in Seattle you could sell them direct to hobbyists for 5 dollars each, all day long
@@Fishtory Thanks for the good tips. I live on the other side of the ocean, in Europe. :) I will talk with local small fish stores. Aquarist life is not that great here, we have very few forums and not real clubs, but I will see what can I find.
I want to start a Cherry Shrimp colony. I have a 15 high tank with a couple of guppies. I plan to give most of the guppies away and maybe keep a selective trio in a 10 gallon and start planting in this tank.
What plants do you recommend for shrimp tanks? I have a really intense light that I cant leave on for very long because it grows alot of hair algae.
Do you have any tips to creating a commercial relationship with local fish stores?
Do you sell your fish to hobbyists, or only to your local stores?
Mostly to 3 local stores...sort of 1 or 2 of the 3 each month... and then i used to sell online on getgills or aquabid ...now i have a decent sized wait list just from UA-cam and my fish club members in seattle locally
I can't find the females in my tank y had 8 sherry shrimp and now I can only find 4. I assume the females are missing beacuse the ones left are smaller and the color is less intense. I had a bit of a c02 spike, but I think it was not that bad. I found only 1 dead one. Do females hide for some reason? Should I consieder them dead?? Should I buy more for them to start breeding?
Totally! The females hide in most tanks for up to 4 weeks while pregnant or molting. Plus pregnant females molt the week before pregnancy in most cases. Up to 5 week's they hide. Good luck and thanks for watching
@@Fishtory Ohh man, you just gave me a lot of hope, thanks for the info. And if they're dead ohh well, can't do anything about it. Love your channel man.
Question: Do Neocaridina like flow? I know I've had cherry shrimp in some very high-flow/high-light conditions suitable for high-tech plants without CO2, and they didn't seem to mind at all. I was wondering what flow conditions they prefer, though, because I'd like to breed as many as possible. :P
From my experience they like very subtle flow....like a trickle from a creek....they can get scared by falling water though, and powerheads chop them up lol.
But like a corner filter with some top flow is perfect.... HOB for a 5 to 10 gallon - perfect.... it also helps certain algae grow as well
@@Fishtory Thank you so much for your reply! You're the best!!! I guess subtle flow it is :D
Where do you sell them? Do you need permits to breed/sell?
You need a business license if you make over 5k a year in most states. I go over all of who I sell to, in the video
what are those fish @ 2:20 + with the blue eyes?
Psuedomugil luminatus! Lovely fish to keep or breed. "Dwarf Neon Rainbow fish" or "Paskais rainbowfish"... they have several names around the globe
Hi, if I were to home breed some fish, normally what are the difference of price ( interns of percentage ) between retail price and the price local aquarium willing to buy from me ? Understand that it is different in each country, but just a rough estimation
Don't know if you get all these messages on older content but evidently the loaches don't eat the baby shrimp. Are Panda Garry's a problem?
Yes panda garra will eat the baby shrimp. But panda loaches do not
Where do you sell them and for local shops, what if they only give store credit?
I do so at a few shops in Seattle. But most dont want to do cash unless your price is super low (it's gotten really bad, since wholesale they pay 50 cents to a dollar for shrimp now from overseas.) Which wasn't the case when I filmed this...they used to pay 2 or 3 dollars too
@@Fishtory wow, so it’s tough to make money on shrimp nowadays then. Cause they’re offering $1.50 a shrimp for store credit only. How is it going selling them online?
how to spell ''awfux' ? and please can i get a link to your video on that topic? thanks
Just came across this comment now. The word you are looking for is probably "Aufwuchs". It's actually a german word :)
For some reason, I'm feeling mathy. I realized that it is likely possible to approximate the number of shrimp in a dedicated tank by feeding them a standardized bolus of decomposition-resistant food (in shape and mass) at a standardized time of day for a week or two to establish equilibrium, and then plotting the time required for the disappearance of said food over several known numbers of adult shrimp to establish a normal curve (at equilibrium, the population should have a fixed distribution of ages). Then, using this relationship, you could derive the colony size from food disappearance time. You could use this data to find the true carrying capacity of your tank/feeding regimen by letting the colony grow until population size stayed constant.
Using this data and the knowledge that maximum reproduction occurs during the exponential growth phase of the curve, you could determine which food disappearance time (a proxy measure of population size) corresponds with the most rapid population growth rate and titrate your rate of shrimp culling/sale accordingly. This would ensure that you always have the ideal number of shrimp left in your tank to maximize productivity. I'm not suggesting anyone actually do this, I just thought it was an interesting thing to think about! XD (Though if someone were to do this and publish all their conditions and data, we might have an optimized breeding set up on our hands)
Another method for probing shrimp colony size (probably far less feasible): Spectroscopy. The gist is that you focus light shined through the aquarium to a point using a lens, and shine this light through a double slit to determine interference bands. Averaging the results from doing this hourly and calibrating the system by using known quantities of shrimp, you can find the wavelengths absorbed by the presence of shrimp, and the magnitude of absorption will correlate with the number of shrimp in some way (to be established experimentally).
Well, I've certainly had my fun writing this comment... sorry I'm so annoying!
The second one has way too many variables i think. The first idea may work if you account for sunlight and nutrients that feed the biofilms and auwfuchs in your tank, along with that decomposition rate you mentioned (which likely changes as shrimp shed and plants decay or whatnot (but in a bare tank, with pvc or plastic hiding huts and no real plants it may work within reason)..and also of course, knowing 100% there are no planaria or snails or whatnot that sneak out and munch on the food.
When all is said and done, i usually just catch them ' all '- then the next day put out their favorite food and see if i missed some...then toss em back in
@@Fishtory I agree, there way too many variables in a healthy ecosystem to take a good measure of shrimp population through food disappearance. It was fun to think about, though! I'm sorry I subjected you to the reading and parsing of my silly comment!
Have you ever kept with Sulawesi Cardinal Shrimp?
Yes...definitely not with neocaridina or even caridina or crystal...but I've had about 10 in a 5 gallon for a year... theyre kinda cool...they didnt breed well for me though
@@Fishtory Do you have a video about them? I want to get some but they are still kind of rare and I have not seen much first hand information.
@@kpllc4209 i do not have one of them unfortunately... i managed to never get them to breed to i felt weird pretending to be an expert on a species that looked sick half the time i owned it.... but i could probably give it another go and try
@@Fishtory That is understandable, you usually have the real scoop, I have read that they possible live on sponges and in caves. I have heard they are fragile but then Cory from aquarium Coop mentioned in passing that they are hardy. I actually do have one of the fifteen I ordered that survived shipping. I am waiting for aquatic arts to get some in, I have never had any problems with them before.
Cory and I live in the same town and have a lot of overlaping connections and friends, however his shop carries only neos, amanos, and bamboo/blue algae shrimp...i think maybe years ago i saw a few crystal shrimp...but if he thinks they're so hardy and they are selling for good money (they only cost 1.50 or a dollar TOPS, wholesale...neos are 25 cents to a buck usually to anyone importing or even to stores ordering like 100...the mark up is almost always 6x-20x the price a store pays...so i would expect if they were so easy, he would carry them (perhaps ive walked passed them or something) but Coop does not specialize in shrimp at all, and he's good friends with Robert who owns Flipaquatics.com....who gives me shrimp from time to time...and im sure would hook cory up big time also. So reading between the lines, i think they're a little bit tricky to keep alive very long, and way harder to breed.
However, when you dial in the parameters to only that specific shrimp...they are hardy, but nothing else is...they live in a very odd lake chemically
think your loches are really panda Garr
Panda garra? No, i have a 7 of those in another tank though hehe. These ones are 1 year old or more. I have videos of panda loach fry on older videod however
I would like to purchase your cull shrimp if possible alot of your shrimp you are culling look beautiful
Where are you located at? And which colors/species are you interested in? Currently I have a ton of malawas and gold nebulas
I live in Philadelphia pa. I favor the neocaridina, rili, the green jades are my all time favorite then the Blues and the reds oh can't forget about the carbons
@@bountyboy5888 ive sold pretty much all the colorful species culls lately. But have malawa Sulawesi algae eaters and golden nebulas. Ill make a post when i have more neo davidi strain culls
Oh ok cool. Do you have any vids of the ones your talking about that i can see now
Can I see the other shrimp you was talking about
How many shrimp could be in a 10 gallon tank?
I've had over 150 in a well planted tank with algae growing all over
Usually 40 to 60 is more likely the max for most 10 gallon set ups however. But they barely produce any ammonia or harmful waste, like fish.
My tank is similar to yours with the plants, shrimps , small fishes as well as the substrate. However I am seeing lots of leeches lurking in the substrate . Anything I could do to eliminate the leeches without harming the plants,shrimps and fishes in it? Would the panda leaches help out .
Im guessing you're seeing beige to pink colored little slug looking critters? Those are most likely planaria. And the best way to stop them from growing in size and number is to cut your feeding back 50% for a month and see if you notice a difference (ps neocaridina shrimp can survive off eating their own waste 4x before moving onto other foods. If it really drives you nuts, you can use deworming medications and they'll usually die off from that. (You can use dog and cat based products )
Can I use a 8 gallon?
Sure? Why not!
I have subscribed you long ago but now review this video for the side profit as a student want to try some cash in my 10 gallon would you please explain how much can i get neos a month in it with other small species like mentioned in video
Im working on a video TODAY that updates this and other videos on how a 2.5g tank made me 1200 this year.
@@Fishtory will you post the video today or later?
Have you had any issues with aquatic arts? They have some good deals but someone told me there fish all died after they got some from aquatic arts.
Never, I had one fish die in shipping due to UPS and they sent me THREE more of the same fish as an apology...ive been using them 18 months, almost monthly now and so have my subscribers...the only issue is shipping is all overnight..and 30 or 40 dollars to some locations....so like most rare fish or shrimp, you should wait untill you want to spend $100 or so in my opinion, and get plants, and hard to find nano fish or cichlid/livebearers...not just espi rasboras or rummynose tetras...they have the best shrimp and crayfish selection of anyone i know....other than AZ garden or wet spot..but 3 people now, have said shrimp from AZ has elobiopsodae (killed their whole tanks in each case, sadly)...but i personally haven't tried them after seeing those posts
If you use the code SECRETHISTORY15 you can try them out...they have an alive delivery gaurentee, and with my channel's code - your name also gets added to a random list of people who purchased products and in july we will give away something like a dozen gift cards to random shoppers and my channel's subscribers in a sweepstakes. So the more money spent on products and animals, the more we tose (4% of each sale into the jackpot).
Then my reward is that i get 4% of sales as basically gratis and then can order any cool fish or plants monthly, and show them to viewers.
Dont the Badis eat the shrimp?
They eat a few babies, but not too many when the tank is well aged with microscopic life
Profit is the excess of revenue over cost, there is a difference between revenue and profit. To have hundreds of dollars of revenue a month from what has been produced in a 10 gallon tank you have to get paid super premium for that, and such prices won't last. If all that is needed is a 10 gallon tank, others will also mass produce the same things.
Even if you could get $400 revenue from what has been produced in a 10 gallon tank, 2, or even 3, consecutive months, that is not "$400 Profit A Month". That is revenue generated from invested money, and it is a value that has taken time to build up, and a revenue that can't be maintained.
What’s the max number of shrimp for a 3 gallon
Eh probably 15 to 25 comfortably....but technically, as many as you wanna cram in
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium thanks for being honest. Some ppl say 5 shrimp per gallon
Do you sell to LFS or to individuals to make $400?
Just read your answer to similar Q below... thanks!
Mostly individuals, but I have trade credit of 2.50 or 3 dollars per shrimp at 2 stores...so it saves me money on anything id buy anyhow...same with corydoras
Some months i make $800 off plants and older fish and some times i only make 150 if im not aggressive about it (if i shipped i could make far more).... However, in a metro area of 4 million people, its pretty easy locally selling 20 shrimp at 6 a pop to several people (i try and price a dollar less than the local stores...and toss in a few freebies of plants or roottabs, aldercones etc. Then offer to bundle more things if they Express other interests.
secretshrimp15 still works on aquatic arts by the way
Secrets ;) lucky you
Better use the new one next time ...haha each can only be used once...but the 10% is always allowed...seems you found the glitch in the matrix
@@Fishtory 👍🏻👍🏻
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You won't make much selling to fish stores..they want below wholesale prices and even then,how much would they buy?..not much is the answer. The only way nowadays to sell like that is to operate like a true business and ship them all over the country. That's more than a pastime and "easy money".
You are 100% correct.... i make 50 to 100 from this tank when i have to deal with shops, however -shrimp still has a line of people dying to pay 5 or 10 dollars each for high quality stock ...stores want to give me 2 max...but one guy gives me 4 and sells em for 10 alongside some utter crap blue jellys he sources for 1 dollar each.
Also having buce in the tank, or annubias is a good idea, growing rare algae shrimp...and as for psuedomugils, still people will gladly pay me 10 dollars a fish and i raise the fry to half an inch in this tank...so technically i have a 20 long to finish off the growing and hold the parents
@@Fishtory Like in life..how good a salesman you are is part of it. But,people don't realize pro breeders for example grow 3" peacock cichlids..and sell to wholesalers for ..sixty cents each!..he sells them for $3 to fish stores and they sell them for $10-20 to customers.
My badis female is striped especially when the male is showing off for her. Granted most of the time they are very faint.
Not red though, right? Or is it?
@@Fishtory no red or blue from what ive seen. very prominent stripes when shes breeding which is pretty often lol
@@GrandMasterPeep oh okay, yes that's also what I've seen. No color markings other than a silver blue pectoral fin :)
Why keep loaches if this tank is for shrimp breeding
Dont really see the thinking behind those profits.must be based on morr than just that tank./grow out time/ etc.
Its not every month that would fo that well' but if you harvest plants and all your spawned nano fish and or shrimp, you can easily get 400...or more, if you sell direct to hobbyists... 5 to 10 buck's a shrimp ,*if you have quality stock
Wow another 15 second unskiable ad
Appologies, UA-cam changed their auto ad loading time. Ive turned it off, turned off all midroll ads for several months, but this video is an old one.
U need the market first to make a profit
You are 100% correct. The internet gives it to you easily for shrimp. But other fish and plants, can take more work
Uh....uh...uh.uh.
Miserable huh? You should try making a video in one take lol 😂
Clickbait? Catching shrimp in a fully planted aquarium is nearly impossible...
Clickbait, I think so. Catching one or a few shrimp at a time, from a colony, is not the problem though, that is easy. And that aquarium is far from _fully_ planted.
A lot of talk, nothing about starting a business. I get the impression you're giving your shrimp