I love your honesty. It’s super cool to hear you lay out all the beans on the financial aspect of the fish business. For me the reward is like you mentioned in the intro. Do what you love for a living, and you’ll never “work” a day in your life. And you sir are making that happen! So I think we can all agree you came out above water over all!😅❤🇺🇸
I'm planning on turning this hobby into a business. I have no "local" shops (closest is 1.5 hours away) to sell to. So I'm looking to do local online sales mostly. Great info man!
Loved this video! Really appreciate how honest you were with how you felt about the project itself, what you’re doing going forwards and also with your earnings and outgoings, very insightful for all of us 🙌
Started following you recently and watched quite alot of your vids. Love your content man and you are very humble. Im beginning to get into fish breeding as part of a business. Youre a big inspiration
I just came across this video and everything you’ve said is so true and as i angelfish breeder myself I can relate to your experience on so many levels. For anyone who trying to get into breeding angels, I’d say breed only the “exotic” strains like Red cap albinos, bulgarian seal points or tuxedos etc or if you don’t have them available around you then you’ll probably have to breed the common strains like zebra, marble or platinums and you’ll have to produce a lot of them to make something out of them as they are worth less money. Pro advise do not inbreed angels
Love your videos man. Found your channel recently and it has been a breath of fresh air. Our values are extremely similar in our views and relationships with fish/breeding. Breeding fish has to be one of the most rewarding parts of this industry/hobby. Keep up the great work and amazing videos!
Good for you, if you can make money from your passion that is the most important thing. Your videos have helped me with my angelfish breeding project. I currently have about 50 wigglers in a breeder box and I can’t wait to see them all swimming around. Thank you for all your good information!
Hey I been watching you since you were in college. I have a pair of angels and grey convicts fry’s my first. My question is if I sell them them . How much should I sell them for
I am Jimmy from New Delhi. I mostly watch all of your videos you work over amazing information about different types of fishes as a hobbyist would love to learn from you about rams. Regards
GREAT EXPLAINING VIDEO :) THE CALCULATION SITUATION IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO DO FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW MACH I INVESTING ON CARING ABOUT THE FISH AND PLANTS AND HOW MUCH MONEY WILL I NEED TO ASK FOR PROFIT :) THANK YOU FOR SHARING :) THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
I have thing for snails. Loving the blue rams I got from you. I'm already getting some interesting colours putting some in with my red foot spotted ones. They're only tiny for now but looking forward to their growth.
This is a great video, shows that it takes plenty of hard work to make a small payday. It would be interesting to see what some more of these videos, but understanding that you share a lot more private information than others would. Rainbows would be interesting for a video like this, common but not quite a bread and butter fish.
Please do a video on the rams and howuch you made from them. Also a video on how to maximise breeding by having other fish in the same tank ( bristlenose and rams for eg.)
I know this comment is late, but I just discovered your channel and have been super impressed! From a business perspective, I am curious how you come up with the cost of your equipment per project. From an accounting perspective, first you would figure out the depreciation rate (which is normally 5-10 years for a lot of things, but I'm sure whatever the Australian equivalent to the IRS has an exact number for fishery equipment). Then you could figure out how much your equipment depreciates a month and divide that by the percent of your equipment you used for each project. I'm only saying this because I would only use the full cost if you only used the equipment this one time, and then it was unusable. Since I'm assuming you're going to reuse your equipment, I think the viability of these projects should be a little bit higher than you estimated since they aren't actually taking up the entire cost of your tanks, filters, and such. Unless you never use the cost of equipment again in future projects, then makes all of your future that much more profitable, because there would be virtually zero equipment cost. You just want to make sure you don't calculate the cost multiple times.
It is a good lesson learned. To reaserch the competition and if you are going to supply locally you need a product that is diffrent and desirable. A project I would like to start is Java moss. Because not a single local place sells it and most American suppliers do a hybrid or mixed clump of moss and then sell misleading small amounts for exuberant prices. If I can do a cost effective and space saving grow method and supply a pure strain for fair price for quantity and quality it will be profitable. I just need pure Java moss to start and a quantity of it. I just can't find a supply.
I did one time in life angle fish breeding to see how it goes. They all turned to be very beautiful. Kept couple of them for my self. Sold all of the to local people online. There is zero profit in it. I did it to gain the experience. It was fun.
If I was a fresh water breeder I would see this dude saltwater breeding is much harder because u have to find the info and there is no ppl like this guy 😁🔥
Hay man if you don't mind why did you increase the price on your Cory's and Bristolnose.( Probably because of corona) but will this be a permanent change. Also love the vids
It’s best to breed and sell uncommon but colourful fish. Fish like guppies and mollies are sold in stores in tanks of 300 fish but bigger fish like gouramis and discus fish are sold from tanks of 10 for 5x more money than guppies or other small fish
Question what water parameters are ideal to keep I had two beautiful platinums and they got totally beat up and stressed developed finrot and pecking from other fish I have tetras neons and rummy nose in the tank and four smaller angels
Hey mate find these vids very insightful, bit off topic here but I wanted to ask a question was watching one of your old vids on neon tetras. You mentioned when someone gets them they should quarantine them and medicate them with ich treatment and two other meds. What are the other two you use that are available to us here in Aus, I know aquarium co op uses stuff we can’t readily get.
I’d would like to see you get into breeding South American cichlids specifically geophagus as I have been having mine laying eggs but it’s never successful.
Hi I am Shivaan I'm 11 turning 12 on Halloween I am one of your biggest fans I have 8 angels planning on selling 2 I have 2 batches of angels at selling size
I was going to ask but forgot would you think that breeding l134 and black rams would be ok in a 4ft tank I’m having to do ro water to bring my ph down as my ph out golf the tap is 8 so wanted to try and only do a couple of tanks with ro but I have l46 l397 and l134 in different tanks and I normally just put cherry shrimp in with them but I was thinking because the rams and l134 or l46 like the same water water what do you think
i was wondering how you could compete with the big land farms around the world that have massive acreage to breed millions of fish. Have you considered buying a farm with access to water so you can grow to an industrial scale?
I woke up this morning to Baby fry in my net box. Yesterday I had the urge to put her in with some Coco coir fiber and a surprise this morning I think I have around 20 or more she was so nervous in jerking and pacing the front of the box when I turn the light on I eventually let her into the main tank I had to put him in a net because he was riding her crazy I started a jar like you showed with tank water squeezed out the filter and added some yeast I hope to have food very soon at the moment I only have ground up fish flakes in bloodworms by the way I mean this in a kind and loving way I love to follow you and without the mustache please don't take offense
get better aquariums with huge filters and overflowing aquarium flowing over in the next one and the next and the next ... 1 big cycle :) that's my idea, than you got 1 eco pump with high turn around and yeah what do you think about this idea
How do you sex angels. I've got 2 pearl scales around adult size but haven't bread so far. They don't show any aggression towards each other and are always together. Could they be a pair or not enough info to tell?
I've never understood why angels attract such a high price. Yes, they are impressive but realistically they are one of the easiest fish to breed and it's easy to get perhaps 200 viable fry per spawn. You can get a spawn every 10-14 days. Given sufficient grow out space you can easily produce 20 fish a day just from a single pair. They should be as cheap as chips.
Well. They’re expensive because people could breed them easily. The seller need to make sure that people would not make the price of the fishes fall down easily by selling with the cheap price
@@tranthong8765 Not quite sure I follow this. If the price of Angels shot up to 50 dollars everybody who has them would be breeding them. The market would very quickly become flooded, supply outstripping demand and the price would drop to the point you'd struggle to give them away.
I am not working with angelfish, but guppies. It have the same issue, when you sell the new breed to people, they would sell with the cheaper price after breeding for sure. It happened to the albino full red guppies. The price should be around 20$ for one guppy, now it’s price drop to 3-5$ a guppies.
People when you put worked hours verses profit, he is doing this because he loves it, not for huge profits, Im impressed with what he has done for the square footage he is working with...........
Love how you keep this as a hobby that makes you profit. It’s very clear that you really care about the fish. Nothing but respect for you, my friend!
The lessons you learned from breeding Angel Fish are lessons that will stick with you for life. Much more so than something you read on the internet.
I love your honesty. It’s super cool to hear you lay out all the beans on the financial aspect of the fish business. For me the reward is like you mentioned in the intro. Do what you love for a living, and you’ll never “work” a day in your life. And you sir are making that happen! So I think we can all agree you came out above water over all!😅❤🇺🇸
I'm planning on turning this hobby into a business. I have no "local" shops (closest is 1.5 hours away) to sell to. So I'm looking to do local online sales mostly. Great info man!
What up triple j
@@CasualAquatics hey! Whats crackin
Good luck
Good luck
@@ange634 thanks
That discus at the beginning is one of the biggest I’ve see that takes years of hard work 👍🏽
Loved this video! Really appreciate how honest you were with how you felt about the project itself, what you’re doing going forwards and also with your earnings and outgoings, very insightful for all of us 🙌
Started following you recently and watched quite alot of your vids. Love your content man and you are very humble. Im beginning to get into fish breeding as part of a business. Youre a big inspiration
Best of luck!
You are doing a great job Nick,the fish always look in top condition. Doing a job you love means you never work a day in your life.
Seeing your new uploads make me so happy. Great video. And great moustache, it’s getting good.
Good to know! I feel like the market can get flooded quickly with a fish that breeds as often as they do and has hundreds of eggs at a time.
I just came across this video and everything you’ve said is so true and as i angelfish breeder myself I can relate to your experience on so many levels. For anyone who trying to get into breeding angels, I’d say breed only the “exotic” strains like Red cap albinos, bulgarian seal points or tuxedos etc or if you don’t have them available around you then you’ll probably have to breed the common strains like zebra, marble or platinums and you’ll have to produce a lot of them to make something out of them as they are worth less money.
Pro advise do not inbreed angels
Love your videos man. Found your channel recently and it has been a breath of fresh air. Our values are extremely similar in our views and relationships with fish/breeding. Breeding fish has to be one of the most rewarding parts of this industry/hobby. Keep up the great work and amazing videos!
Thanks for that Nick. Really appreciate what you do and your straight up honestly. I’ve learnt a lot from you. Never stop making videos ok.
Great hobby, great business and great guy. Keep it up mate!
Definatly makes me happy I kept my 300g and 180g (1136L and 681L) to use for angel grow out, I was worried about smaller tanks giving them bent fins
I just purchased 6 sapphire blue. All doing well. Beautiful fish.
Good for you, if you can make money from your passion that is the most important thing. Your videos have helped me with my angelfish breeding project. I currently have about 50 wigglers in a breeder box and I can’t wait to see them all swimming around. Thank you for all your good information!
Hi 🙂 so it's seven months later how's it going with your angelfish? You were where I'd like to be when you wrote this comment, any good tips to share?
your lucky as i cant even get my year old angles to pair off but its good to see you are succeeding
Love your channel and how real and honest you are. Keep it up!
I literally love your face and that mustache? You’re owning it dude💯
Mad respect brotha! Keep doing you.
Hey I been watching you since you were in college. I have a pair of angels and grey convicts fry’s my first. My question is if I sell them them . How much should I sell them for
You're a flucking legend mate, keep it up
Thanks for sharing your experiences and knowledge
I am Jimmy from New Delhi. I mostly watch all of your videos you work over amazing information about different types of fishes as a hobbyist would love to learn from you about rams.
Regards
great vid nick!
GREAT EXPLAINING VIDEO :)
THE CALCULATION SITUATION IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO DO FOR
UNDERSTANDING HOW MACH I INVESTING ON CARING ABOUT THE FISH AND PLANTS AND HOW MUCH MONEY WILL I NEED TO ASK FOR PROFIT :)
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
These are the best videos
I have thing for snails. Loving the blue rams I got from you. I'm already getting some interesting colours putting some in with my red foot spotted ones. They're only tiny for now but looking forward to their growth.
Hey! love your content ❤️
plz do a video about how you culling a fish. i think its very important for new breeders.
This is a great video, shows that it takes plenty of hard work to make a small payday.
It would be interesting to see what some more of these videos, but understanding that you share a lot more private information than others would.
Rainbows would be interesting for a video like this, common but not quite a bread and butter fish.
Awesome videos, keep up the great work! 👊🤘
Really appreciate your honesty
Please do a video on the rams and howuch you made from them. Also a video on how to maximise breeding by having other fish in the same tank ( bristlenose and rams for eg.)
I know this comment is late, but I just discovered your channel and have been super impressed!
From a business perspective, I am curious how you come up with the cost of your equipment per project. From an accounting perspective, first you would figure out the depreciation rate (which is normally 5-10 years for a lot of things, but I'm sure whatever the Australian equivalent to the IRS has an exact number for fishery equipment). Then you could figure out how much your equipment depreciates a month and divide that by the percent of your equipment you used for each project. I'm only saying this because I would only use the full cost if you only used the equipment this one time, and then it was unusable. Since I'm assuming you're going to reuse your equipment, I think the viability of these projects should be a little bit higher than you estimated since they aren't actually taking up the entire cost of your tanks, filters, and such. Unless you never use the cost of equipment again in future projects, then makes all of your future that much more profitable, because there would be virtually zero equipment cost. You just want to make sure you don't calculate the cost multiple times.
Well explained bro.
Haha not sure if it Clementine or not, but your Discus is very interested in you and the camera 🤣
Is your fish room open to the public? That's where the money is. Thanks for the update.
It is a good lesson learned. To reaserch the competition and if you are going to supply locally you need a product that is diffrent and desirable.
A project I would like to start is Java moss. Because not a single local place sells it and most American suppliers do a hybrid or mixed clump of moss and then sell misleading small amounts for exuberant prices.
If I can do a cost effective and space saving grow method and supply a pure strain for fair price for quantity and quality it will be profitable.
I just need pure Java moss to start and a quantity of it. I just can't find a supply.
I did one time in life angle fish breeding to see how it goes. They all turned to be very beautiful. Kept couple of them for my self. Sold all of the to local people online. There is zero profit in it. I did it to gain the experience. It was fun.
Great video, thanks I loved this :D
If I was a fresh water breeder I would see this dude saltwater breeding is much harder because u have to find the info and there is no ppl like this guy 😁🔥
If you are doing what you love you never work! Thats the best part
8:44 did you make that box out of corflute?
Thanks for the rainbows I bought off you, I now have breed 20 fry from them
Good video. Thanks
2:10 is that a pleco on a tile
Hay man if you don't mind why did you increase the price on your Cory's and Bristolnose.( Probably because of corona) but will this be a permanent change. Also love the vids
Really like your honesty on breeding angels l noticed you have discus do you breed them if so let us know thanks
Great job 🎉👍😁🙏
It’s best to breed and sell uncommon but colourful fish. Fish like guppies and mollies are sold in stores in tanks of 300 fish but bigger fish like gouramis and discus fish are sold from tanks of 10 for 5x more money than guppies or other small fish
Great video. Damn you can talk!😮😆
what microphone are you using mate cheers great channel
Are You keeping ancistrus with pairs? Does he not eat angel's eggs?
Hey make one about plecos
C’mon guys he deserves this get him to 100k we are at 97.7k!
Question what water parameters are ideal to keep I had two beautiful platinums and they got totally beat up and stressed developed finrot and pecking from other fish I have tetras neons and rummy nose in the tank and four smaller angels
I hope you will continue this series curious on how much you can earn from breeding bristlenose and cory
9:15
I believe you meant to say earned.
$12.50/hr. That's alotta fish food/meds and water changes to equat to $12.50 an hour. 🙃
Good work 💪👷
OMG! You're so cute with the moustache! (It makes you look old enough to talk to. You usually look like a teenager.)
Useful to know
Hey mate find these vids very insightful, bit off topic here but I wanted to ask a question was watching one of your old vids on neon tetras. You mentioned when someone gets them they should quarantine them and medicate them with ich treatment and two other meds. What are the other two you use that are available to us here in Aus, I know aquarium co op uses stuff we can’t readily get.
That mustache is hiding your handsome face
Aren't you in UK or Australia wonder if the price and market is different here in tge states
What's your power bill like?
How much time do you have to spend on your channel (editing etc.)?
I’d would like to see you get into breeding South American cichlids specifically geophagus as I have been having mine laying eggs but it’s never successful.
I don’t think he likes the aggressive nature of cichlids. It’s a shame they don’t often mix well with other fish
@@lukefontaine3186 geophagus aren’t really aggressive as most other cichlids I’ve got 6 red head tapajos in a 4ft and there’s barely any aggression
do you ship anywhere within the USA?
I love your videos
The stache is the most valuable thing in the room.
Hi I am Shivaan I'm 11 turning 12 on Halloween I am one of your biggest fans I have 8 angels planning on selling 2 I have 2 batches of angels at selling size
I was going to ask but forgot would you think that breeding l134 and black rams would be ok in a 4ft tank I’m having to do ro water to bring my ph down as my ph out golf the tap is 8 so wanted to try and only do a couple of tanks with ro but I have l46 l397 and l134 in different tanks and I normally just put cherry shrimp in with them but I was thinking because the rams and l134 or l46 like the same water water what do you think
Will you have more black rams available soon ?? 😄
in Indonesia, you can get small angelfish so cheap.. 3-5 angelfish for 1 USD..
It gets hard dealing with fish that spawn a lot. Not many people buy them and they take up a lot of tank space.
nice man!
do you have any fancy nice looking tanks? :)
Wow that's awesome
What lights and tank sizes do you use?
I have a dumb question but I am thinking of getting some angel fish to breed but what do I do if I have to many babies?
i was wondering how you could compete with the big land farms around the world that have massive acreage to breed millions of fish. Have you considered buying a farm with access to water so you can grow to an industrial scale?
Welp at least you broke even and got to make this cool video for us 🥳🐠
Bro moustache superb like it
I wish I can buy some angel fish from you
I woke up this morning to Baby fry in my net box. Yesterday I had the urge to put her in with some Coco coir fiber and a surprise this morning I think I have around 20 or more she was so nervous in jerking and pacing the front of the box when I turn the light on I eventually let her into the main tank I had to put him in a net because he was riding her crazy I started a jar like you showed with tank water squeezed out the filter and added some yeast I hope to have food very soon at the moment I only have ground up fish flakes in bloodworms by the way I mean this in a kind and loving way I love to follow you and without the mustache please don't take offense
What stores will buy from you
Can a pair of angelfish live in a 15 Gallon column tank?
get better aquariums with huge filters and overflowing aquarium flowing over in the next one and the next and the next ... 1 big cycle :) that's my idea, than you got 1 eco pump with high turn around and yeah what do you think about this idea
Mustache is lookin reeeaaaaal nice, brother!!
Bravo!
Great video 👍 handsome host ❤
Who are your buyers ? Normal people or do you sell them to shop owners?
Education is expensive, the more you learn the better your profit margin.
What do you do with the fish that are deformed?
How big is each tank eith the pairs?
20 gallon
I just brought a pair of blue sapphire angle fish
How do you sex angels. I've got 2 pearl scales around adult size but haven't bread so far. They don't show any aggression towards each other and are always together. Could they be a pair or not enough info to tell?
I've never understood why angels attract such a high price. Yes, they are impressive but realistically they are one of the easiest fish to breed and it's easy to get perhaps 200 viable fry per spawn. You can get a spawn every 10-14 days. Given sufficient grow out space you can easily produce 20 fish a day just from a single pair. They should be as cheap as chips.
It’s selectively breeding them that’s difficult, not allowing dodgy fish to spawn, the time spent sorting them etc
Well. They’re expensive because people could breed them easily. The seller need to make sure that people would not make the price of the fishes fall down easily by selling with the cheap price
@@tranthong8765 Not quite sure I follow this. If the price of Angels shot up to 50 dollars everybody who has them would be breeding them. The market would very quickly become flooded, supply outstripping demand and the price would drop to the point you'd struggle to give them away.
Then they would need to bring the other rare breed to sell. You could not keep selling with the same price
I am not working with angelfish, but guppies. It have the same issue, when you sell the new breed to people, they would sell with the cheaper price after breeding for sure. It happened to the albino full red guppies. The price should be around 20$ for one guppy, now it’s price drop to 3-5$ a guppies.
People when you put worked hours verses profit, he is doing this because he loves it, not for huge profits, Im impressed with what he has done for the square footage he is working with...........