Top 8 Best Fish to Breed for Profit! 

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

Thank you for sharing your experiences... You truly inspire the rest of us who want to pursue this hobby!

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.

Thank you for including price suggestions!!!

I’m loving your videos. Thank you so much for sharing!!

Good video. Very informative and no sugar coating

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.

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

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.

great video! i love apistos, i'll get back into them one day!

Thanks for the advice. I am going to set up a paludarium with hermit crabs and guppies so this was really helpful

Such a great video, as usual!

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

Thanks Nick😜 Great tips👍 Keeping it Fun🤩 Shop’s taking shape 🤪🐟🌿💋

Thanks for sharing, your content its great. I finally bred my betta fish after checking your content out.

Wow, this video was amazing! Very helpful and informative! You did an amazing job and keep up the incredible work!👍

Thanks for all the info mate 👍 👌 you got a new sub

Yay! Thanks for the updated breeding for profit video. I enjoy your videos and it’s inspiring me to further push my hobby

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.

when I first saw your content, I started to like it, keep up the good work. 👍

Always fun to watch you work. Keep up the good work and let's build this hobby in Australia. Andy

Love your videos!

I've made an ok amount with Bristol nose, very easy they don't take up much space till they grow out. But it seems to dry up the market for a few months at least in my area(Saskatchewan,Ca) but it's doable, have fun, and thanks for the good video!

have done some breeding for shops as wel, realy good hints!

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.

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.

Ty for the timestamp brother

I plan on breeding Panda Corydoras since they're so cute I need more!

Hey good to see you grow up online with the fish hobby

Good luck with your shop

Dude has literally jumped 100k subs since I joined 6-7 months ago, insane 🙌🏻🔥

thanks, where do you recommend getting starter beeding tanks (im also in brisbane so local is fine)

Shop is looking good. Best wishes and success with this new adventure.

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 😂

Appreciate you giving such genuine tips on breeding and make some cash too... 🙏🇱🇰

Wish we had some fish stores around here.

Great selection there but have you ever considered killifish? I discovered that many species are much easier than I had thought. Some of the bottom spawners and switch spawners are really colourful. Yes, the eggs need to be kept for a while but once the fry hatch they grow really fast.

I have a group of albino sterbai I’m working on getting to breed. I live in Noosa but go to brisbane white often (I also have long fin and short fin bristlenoses, albino peppered corys, decent grade yellow neocaridina shrimp, mixed endlers, and golden pencilfish, and I have apistogramma macmasteri and apistogramma panduro and I’m working on getting them to breeding size)

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.

Hope all is going well with the new shop. Would be awesome to be a local breeder for you, but I'm not quit at that stage yet. Your videos are helping me get there tho :)

Great video I’m breeding super red plecos

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.

Hello! Great video! What’s the name of the white spotted plecos we can see at 3:59? Thanks

Glad that you posted today!

Nice video, Keep up the good work!

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.

My pandas sadly passed away in the last 3 months. I miss them a lot and really want to breed some and document it! Glad to see they are on your list!

Thanks, Nick. Wow, look at all the movement happening for you. Your hard work is paying off for you and I think it's every bit as much of a thing of joy, focus and discipline for you as it is for economics right now. You're a fortunate young man. Are you still getting help from that fantastic older fella with the mouth of a drunken sailor on him? Lol... ;-). He was great and he knew his stuff. You're doing alright when you've got people that believe in you like that to lend their hands. Just wondering how the shrimp in the big garbage buckets project worked out for you? Forgive me if I missed it in another vid, but I can't catch them all. Anyway, things are going swimmingly for you and that's a fine thing. Bright futures to you, Nick! All the best!

I wish you have a tictoc acc, it would be educating and fun and simple

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.

I may be a bit late but i have some juvinile angles, corrys and some longfin plecos

Dayum Bro looks majestic

Good video

I have kribensis and they are great to breed

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

What do u consider local? Just in Bris or happy for someone from the sunny coast? I have lemon blue eyes some more pelcos growing up rice fish and mystery snails and about to get a bigger fish room!

Good video mr Nick! If everyone start breeding them for profit the prices will go down due to supply and demand tho 🤔🤷‍♂️😉🥰🐶

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

Keep up the Good work Bro 💯💯💯

I’m getting into this hobby and really love fish I’ve always wanted to see how far I can go. I know that you can make money but I feel like I just like it due to the challenge and beauty in this. Idk about you guys but my local aquariums offer to pay me by store credit so if it’s actually money idk who to look for or how to negotiate with these aquarium stores any advice? Btw I’m focused on rams I love these fish and really take the time to understand this fish and it’s needs as a whole very beautiful fish

How are you breeding bristle noses? I have two in my community tank yet they neevr breed.

thanks for the information 💯✌️👍

Day 9 of asking where in Brisbane your fish shop is, btw I loved this video ❤️

Platy Fish 😊

I have about a 100 juvenile electric yellows that I need to offload, brisbane local

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.

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

Please do you have recommended Australian pleco ‘how to” references

Also on Endlers can they breed with normal female guppies? I can only source male Endlers locally here.

I occasionally breed albino Cory’s. Never made a dime. Just do it as a hobby and give them to the local fish store and barter for fish food.

I'm in Brisbane and would love to try. Zero experience BTW.

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?

Can you have a sorority tank with several females and one male in a community beta tank??

I wish you posted more 🧐🧐

Lux

Are you going to sell online as I live in Stanthorpe and so I have to buy my fish online?

Currently have around 60+ endler/guppies growing out in my breeding tank, thanks to watching your videos it has got me on my own way to becoming a breeder.

I wouldn’t mind having a l340 pleco never seen one though

Do i get more plecos if i breed them in a biger tank?

What about the Luminata fish?

What’s your store called

Hay sir are you in amarica ?

Will you be breeding altums again

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 RU-vid, but either in another language or just not helpful.

Do you live near Houston? I have shit ton of platinum angle babies

Hello. I am breeding Nannostomus mortenthaleri. Now their is profit too.. Greetings from the Netherlands!

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.

How to know the pleco is male or female

Where's the shop?

I have 200 bristlenose fry that I’m looking to offload in about 3 months (I am a brisbane local)😉

very nice

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?

I was thinking of selling angelfish any thoughts

Ain't no way bro, I was watching kaimuki backyard when I was 14 too, he's the best 😭

My boss, I work at a fish shop, almost solely gives store credit which kinda sucks if youre looking for a bit of cash

I’m struggling with my angels, after 3 days they eat them or something eats them.

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!

*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

What are you feeding yåu L333

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 💯💯💯