How I Breed Fish for a Living (and How You Can Too) 

I am 50 years old I am just starting on building a fish room. I have asked myself a couple of times if I am crazy but I keep moving forward. I brought my first 5 tanks online this week and it was a joyous moment. Your video was inspirational. Thank you and keep up the great work!

You are a true entrepreneur and someday you will look back at this and remember how you started this in just a small building. Much luck to you!!!

It is a very encouraging story for a young man to start his own business; thumb up for you

Ive been watching your videos since January of this year and you inspired me and my friend to start our own fish room modeled after what you're doing!!! We have been running since March of this year with minimal catastrophes and so much of that I credit to your videos! We just had our first official sale to a LFS in Grand Rapids, Michigan in mid July with tons more locations lined up and ready :) Thank you so much for posting all the types of videos you do, each one is super valuable!

During COVID, I decided to learn more about the hobby, understanding water chemistry, and become familiar with different species. The you tubers you mentioned, along with your videos kept me sane! So cool how you’ve evolved. Best of luck to you!

Congratulations!! It sounds like you got lucky with having good support and also worked really hard to make everything happen. It’s awesome to hear success stories like this.

All your hardwork will payoff!!!! Glad to see you thriving in something that you love!!! And so impressed for doing something that you are passionate about!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨✨

Turning a passion into a job and it will never feel like you are working again. Good on you! I can see how excited you get talking about this. Doing a great job!

Amazing story! What an incredible journey you have had. Thank you for sharing, you are truly an inspiration. I love your 1% principle. It really does help. I do this to myself all the time too and I can always achieve a higher level of satisfaction when putting in just that little extra effort each day. Sometimes it's those little things at the end of the day that bring a great sense of contentment and fulfilment. I wish you all the best in the future and I look forward to many more videos. 🐠 🥰👍

Congrats mate, love your work!! Your website looks great and look forward to supporting your business and getting some cool livestock and plants from you

You're doing a great job mate! It's hard work to setup and maintain all that. Keep it up.

What a journey this was, I started watching in 2019 and now you have a own shop mate, great work, I am on 20 tanks and expanding now, you were my motivation that I can do it from the start

Watching this while I pull eggs from my corydoras emeralds. I love animals and one tank is now 26 to planning a fish room too. All from watching u and others on RU-vid. I love this video please make more. Absolute inspiration 🙌

Cannot express how deeply this video resonated with my soul, fish used to be a hobby for me, covid made me realize that it's my calling/gift, lots of love and support from Barbados 🇧🇧

Awesome video, good to see a young person doing what you are doing with your business!

Well done not to many yongster want to word hard for anything these days. Keep it up

you are one of the channels that have helped me rediscover a childhood hobby, im trying to get approval from my landlord right now to get my first fish tank in years.

Your honesty, resiliency, and tenacity are why I watch your channel! It is amazing how focused and dedicated you are to your business at your age - so freaking impressive! My Venezuelan Corys have been breeding and I feel addicted 😬🙈 I see why you do this 🤣 I started selling. Thank you so much for your fun and informative content, fan forever ❤🙏

Nick, I am 100% positive that this has been an amazing journey for you! Loving what you do, is the most important aspect of "working" for a living. Because it doesn't feel like work, it is life fulfilling. The joy of watching your progress in the industry is how I feel about being an Educator. The success of you breeding a species and sending them off to their new homes is like me watching my students graduate and go off to "life"! We have an emotional component that is attached to our vocations and that is passion. I wholeheartedly wish your continuous success and growth to be filled with joy and personal satisfaction! Thank you for sharing...

I appreciate your videos, I am a hobbyist that is working on becoming a full fledge breeder and your videos have made me realize that it is possible

Really great story, I have been following your channel for some time now and have learned a lot from you. I have been trying to breed fish for about a year now, with moderate success. I'm 17 and have kept fish for 6 years and I'm starting to get really invested into breeding fish. Thanks for sharing your story, and I know exactly how it feels to put all your money into fish keeping. Keep on going, you are doing great! Love the videos!

Thanks for this video. You are very inspiring... im starting some businesses myself and it was intended to start with my father.... but he passed away christmas eve. Ive taken some time and now im starting from scratch and found your channel. Youve really helped my belief that i can succeed and i will not give up. Please keep up the content

Great video! My fish room has only really been up for about 18 months. It's amazing how life can change in such a short amount of time with hard work

Been watching you since I started keeping plants in aquarium. Watched all of your plant videos and continued watching you on your journey. Amazing work man! From mums kitchen to a fishroom GG

I really enjoyed this video it was informative, to the point, and realistic. I have been enjoying your videos and will continue watching. Sorry to hear about getting scammed, great to hear you used your passion to not let it dissuade you.

Good job man started watching you in March 2020 it’s crazy to see the growth of your RU-vid channel and the variety of fish you have now keep up the great work can’t wait to see where you are in a years time

I am very inspired by people who love animals and are passionate about it. I have many animals of all shapes and sizes (horses to dogs to fish and all in between) and am so happy to watch your videos.

keep up the great work, been watching your videos since 2020. seen you and your tanks grew non-stop. from tanks in your home to a fish room and from a clean shave to a moustache! keep doing what you're doing, persistence, determination and like you said patience. well done!

Amazing story bro. Very inspiring... you have no idea how this helps me look back at a time when I felt so passionate about the hobby and breeding fish. I did go into it as a business but somewhere along the line I lost that passion. Your dad was very correct. Retail wasn't the answer. It was breeding fish. I'm hoping to start back breeding again. Thanks for sharing. Huge fan all the way from Trinidad, Caribbean 🇹🇹

Dream!!!😁🐟🐟 One of the best vids yet!! Ur incredible mate. Good job. Clean floor!!yay

I'm really happy about you mate ❤️ plz make more content like this

Hard work turn into reward. Keep up this great work and make more great videos for us to watch ya!

Omg nick!! So amazing, inspired by your journey 😍

This story is pretty amazing 🤩

So proud of you good job God bless you

you have put some true dedication into this farm keep it up god has given you such a gift

That was a great video. Thank you for sharing some of the "secrets to your success". You are one great young human!

Excellent video. Great story. It all starts at home doesn't it? Good family means a lot. It occurred to me the other day that the people you see in life that are doing well, in the vast majority of the cases had good starts in life. Same with businesses, marriages, churches, anything. Doesn't mean you can't come from nothing and become something, but mostly it's people who got a good start...they had both parents at home and it was a stable environment, good work ethic instilled at a young age, saving money taught at a young age and helped to get started, those sorts of things are real advantages that turn out to be huge in life. Keep up the good work! From America! Thanks!

Best Fish Channel on RU-vid , Keep up the good work!!!

Watching your video has inspired me to not give up and keep trying to breed fish. I envy the position your in and hope to succeed some myself.

Passion, Self believe, Hard work and taking risks. Good job my men.

Inspirational for both kids and people twice or 3 times your age. You seem to get through to all audiences Nick with great detail and modesty. You can't buy that pal! Best wishes from the UK fella 👌🇬🇧

This was Awesome to listen to, thank you for sharing with us your journey and your helpful tips and tricks. I’ve learnt a lot and hopefully it’ll all help me become a better fish owner. Thank you

Great inspirational video, and your fish room is a credit to you, I can't believe I haven't stumbled on your videos before, I think I will definitely enjoy watching some of them 🌾🐠🙂

Great inspiration mate, big time respect! 🐟👍

Plan came together, well done,👏

Simplyamazing. You're going to do great things

Thanks, you inspire me to keep on following my passion!

You are my role model ❤️

Awesome video mate! Massive fan of your channel and a fellow Queenslander 👍

So cool to see a fellow follower of Aquarium Co-Op and all the OG fish RU-vidrs with their own fish room!

This video is giving me major inspiration ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

Love your story man! I’m glad to be a OG subscriber ❤️

What a good kid, you are doing great and you deserve every success.

You've inspired me to restart fish keeping

I am currently at your ~golfing era~ where I am letting life take over and keeping the hobby aside. I recently moved to another country for schooling, but I really could not keep myself off the hobby completely and I purchased a small 3 gallon tank. It just has three zebra danios. I might be far away or not even on the same path of what you are going on, but watching this spiked my interests in the hobby all over again.

I love your 1% idea. I’m going to use that always from now on.

Your parents are awesome to help to create your bussiness idea.

What great life principles. Sounds like a golfer's mentality applied in business. Keep up the great work buddy 👍

What a journey!! So inspirational.

Great job...love the discus and angels ...I'm a cichlid fan my self

Young man you are so inspiring…..you are wise well beyond your years! I too have had a dream of breeding/ selling fish for a living, then 30+ years flow by. I wish I had taken the steps you did when I was young, well done!! I now into my 50s am now trying to make my dream come true. I hope I’m not too late, thanks so very much for all you do and have done🙂👍🏻

Been here since close to the start! My fave go to for the hobby! Crazy growth! Well done :)

You are doing great bud keep it up 💯🤘🏽

Inspiring, I was just fed up of looking after my fry and the new inactive fish today.. I really need that resilience. Good luck with your business

Did not even watch 10sec and liked and subscribed. So good to see a young aussie lad on youtube and your room is on par with all the american big boys (just on first site) To top it off you got the fish I like too! I'll stay tuned for more!

I wish you all the success in the world. Thus was awesome to watch n listen to the backstory

You got me on the leaving extra 1% better for the next day mate, such a good mindset :)

We are even not relatives but I very proud of you. It was huge and probably stressful part to build up everything and you did it. Rewarding? Definitely!)

Definitely inspired me to get into betta's especially fell in love for the hobby. Wishing you nothing less but the best!

I like that 1 percent rule!

Really inspirational video, keep up the amazing work.

Great man. Really appreciate what you are doing.

Pumping out the videos lately, good to see

I'm trying to start my own fish breeding buissness. I'm quite young and I was not sure if it would be possible, but now I am committed and I do think it's possible.

Nice work,keep these great vids going. 👌🏼😁

Cool video.. Really cool to know what you want and go get it! Also cool for us ppl to learn so much about you! Stay motivated and don't lose focus, bad experiences only makes you grow wiser so don't get beaten by them.. Keep up the good work and make more cool videos.. Stay positive always.. All the best Fish Boy!!

You got a dream job, i thinking of start my own breeding business, but little to scared to take the big jump, now its still more a hobby with 9 tank and only breed L numbers

Well DONE!!!

LOVED this 😍

Good Stuff bro, U r an excellent inspiration to all....Hoorah!!

Awesome dude. You are the 1% you made all this happen

Good job on keeping care of your fish respect

I also started to keep fish when I was 12 and today I’m still keeping fish at 13

Great work mate keep it up.

awesome video, bro!

Actually ur the best fish keeper met in You tube .ur going to be my favorite utuber,U have a nice talent,lvur work br really appreciate ur work.Actuall after seen this video my mind was like "yh ur good u can do it ".❤️

Fish keeping has helped me thru the worst part of my life, it came in at the same time everything started to fall apart. Year and a half later and I feel like I’m still learning and healing but I’m in a better place then I was and the fish are a huge reason , I keep thinking about trying to grow and eventually make it a business I don’t care what I make but getting sales is so exciting and seeing my baby’s go to someone that’s going to appreciate them and they get to go places I’ve never been is a rush😆. Never thought I would think about a fish business but here I am 20 tanks later.

Well done for accomplishing your dream. Keep up the good work 😆

Yo. Ur summing up my life but im only up to the first year😄. I will follow ur steps master🤴🔥😁.

I share your videos all the time. You have done a really great job. And, I hope you keep going!! Keep having fun with it. That's the key, right?

Awesome!!! Thank you.

Just discovered you today and binge watched love this channel!

You are an inspiration to this old lady in Canada. ;)

This was amazing 👌

Best of luck to you I recently bought 3 platies 2 female, 1 male and now my tank is being over run with young! Hopefully I have local people to take some or hopefully a store will my current objective with this little project is to at least make enough money to supply my fish keeping hobby. Maybe later if I can sell fish at a bigger scale, I'll buy more tanks and other types of fish! My goal is to have a "fish room" with fish im breeding and selling and others that I just really want as permanent pets!

Nice. I am expanding my fishroom soon to about 30000 litres of water. Hope that with this volume it can become my only job. I specialize in discus and characins mainly but generally as a business we need to breed whatever wholesalers want to be buying. Probably my market is totally different than yours but it is always nice to have some insight into fishrooms of other breeders.

Great job bro Following from Nepal

Wonderful. Good luck in your fish breeding. Subscribed.

Great Job!