Betta Fish Aquariums - He’s gotten the best personality since he’s gotten healthy!

He’s gotten the best personality since he’s gotten healthy!
A little before and after of my boy Spyro. He’s the best💜
Everyone, meet Sushi ♥️
newly adopted gal Snowcone enjoys her first taste of live food
He’s still kinda camera shy but I love him!
My rescue boys glow up! So proud 😩
Flare Out Friday
Meet Tippy my new Paradise Betta. It’s dinner time! So don’t mind the water
Little Man says good morning
How do I make this suitable for a betta?
Kimchi's pre-bedtime routine
Neptune in his jungle
So you want to make money breeding bettas?
after losing my betta fish ghostie last year to a tumor i finally opened my heart to a new betta. meet tetra! he is in a 29 gallon community tank. he is extremely active so it’s hard to take pics of him.
rescued pablo a month ago and I just can't get over how pretty he is
no pest snails allowed here 😡
His flutter makes my heart flutter! Meet my new guy- flutter fish!
Red Betta turning blue??
This odd boy looks angry on his left side but on his right, it looks like he had a little too much Redbull.
bojack when i first got him vs just a little over a week later <3
My beautiful koi betta lady. (She doesn’t mind her guppy companions most days, she’s only ever nipped one of them.) She was worth every penny of the 20$
Finished my aquascape!
I drew this colourful boy today!
Puddin is such a weirdo sometimes 🥰🥹
Meet Sunset, not sure exactly what type she is, and her fins are damaged, but hopefully in her new home her fins will recover

He’s gotten the best personality since he’s gotten healthy!

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 09:29 AM PDT

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A little before and after of my boy Spyro. He’s the best💜

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 05:13 PM PDT

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Everyone, meet Sushi ♥️

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 07:19 PM PDT

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newly adopted gal Snowcone enjoys her first taste of live food

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 07:46 PM PDT

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He’s still kinda camera shy but I love him!

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 12:59 AM PDT

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My rescue boys glow up! So proud 😩

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 08:44 PM PDT

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Flare Out Friday

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 09:29 AM PDT

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Meet Tippy my new Paradise Betta. It’s dinner time! So don’t mind the water

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 12:57 AM PDT

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Little Man says good morning

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 10:26 AM PDT

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How do I make this suitable for a betta?

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 04:34 AM PDT

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Kimchi's pre-bedtime routine

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 08:08 PM PDT

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Neptune in his jungle

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 08:55 PM PDT

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So you want to make money breeding bettas?

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 11:21 PM PDT

[I wrote this as a reply to another post and figured it warranted a post of its own.]

It definately isn't a casual endeavor. It is costly both in cash and time. I stopped 15 years ago because I wanted a life besides being in the fish room 7 days a week.

You should look to spend $100+ with shipping per breeding pair bought from different different breeders unless you can track their bloodlines back 3 generations to ensure you arn't overly inbreeding and getting too many malformed cull fish.

You need heated, filtered, 5gal tanks for each breeder to be conditioned in and live in post spawn.

Breeders will need to be conditioned for 2-3weeks prior to breeding with high protein, preferably live, food.

Breeding, esp with new fish, should be closely monitored to avoid dangerous aggression. Only about 75% of breeding pairs will be successful. You will get males, and occasionally females, that are too aggressive and have to be retired immediately due to the fact they will kill any mate you put in with them. Then their are couples that just don't vibe and won't breed. The first breeding of young fish is almost always low, or 0, yield (lack of fertilization, small female, male eats fry/eggs). Also here you need a heated, sponge filtered, 10g tank/container for breeding and the first couple weeks of fry growth.

Then you need varied, tiny, food for the first week. Multiple cultures of infusoria, vinegar eels, microworms on hand and grown out. You have to be home and have the time to feed these 3+ times daily.

Then you transition to baby brine shrimp. You need atleast 2 and preferably 3 hatcheries going so you have fresh hatched every 12hrs.

Around week 1.5-2 transition to growout tanks. 20g/50 fry with adequate heating and light. Feed bbs 2x per day. By week 3 you are doing 25-50% daily water changes due to both over stocking and growth inhibiting hormones that will stunt your fry if they accumulate.

At around 2.5 months you will need to jar all fry that you don't cull into individual containers. You will need a room heated to 80°f or another way to keep each small container at a good growing temp. You are still feeding 2x daily a mix of live foods and high protein pellets/flakes. Each jar needs one or better two 50% water changes daily since they arn't filtered and you are feeding for growth. Count on about 2 hrs/100 fish if you are changing manually. This goes on until fish are grown out and sellable at around 4-6months.

At no point in those 4-6months can you go on vacation even for a weekend without having someone who is willing, and trained, to spend the several hours a day to do the maintenance and feeding.

And this is where the marketing comes in. If you researched and bought in demand types for breeding, and the market stays about where it is, you can expect:

Direct to retail (usually shipped 1-2fish at a time and you have to garuntee live arival)- $15-45 depending on quality for males & $5-15 for females

Lfs(10-20 fish at a time)- $5-25m & ~$5f

Wholesaler(as many as you have)- $2-20m & $1-5f

If you plan on selling live animals at this scale you will legally also need to register a buisness and adhere to your states "pet store" laws.

Assuming you can get 100 top quality males to market (not guna happen) your gross sales would be ~$4500. Subtract a bare minimum setup cost of $500 (prob $1000+ but maybe you found a hell of a sale)for tanks, heaters, filters, lights, live food cultures, food, electricity= $4000/ 2hr a day average for 5 months=$13.33/hr. You will make more at McDonald's and there you don't have to worry about one slip-up killing every Big Mac and ever dollar you have worked for.

None of this is intended to necessarily dissuade you from starting your buisness. If you are willing and able to do all of the above I wish you the best. I firmly believe there should be more locally bred, quality, fish on the market as an alternative to the half dead fish in a cup options available now.

But having done it, even after much research, I was astounded at how much time and cash it takes to actually bring one, much less more, spawns to market.

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after losing my betta fish ghostie last year to a tumor i finally opened my heart to a new betta. meet tetra! he is in a 29 gallon community tank. he is extremely active so it’s hard to take pics of him.

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 03:15 PM PDT