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Originally Posted by rgcraig
My lord, 17 years?
What are you doing with fish?
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It's HUBBY's fault!
You might say, we're basically breeding tropical fish.
Hubby has this hobby. He calls it a hobby, I call it an obsession. I didn't care much for it until it started making money.
He gets a LARGE batch of fish... for example--dime sized angelfish from a wholesaler. Investment of $50 or so. Raises them out in a large aquarium-- watches for them to pair off. Once they are paired off, we pull the pair, and put them into a tank by themselves and wait on the female to lay eggs. Once they've done that-- they are worth a small fortune to the right person. Finding the right person is easy. There is a website where people buy and sell any tropical fish imaginable. He got into it before we had three kids. It worked well with one child, because we had an extra bedroom which he kept all the tanks in. No problem, I could close the room and not have to see it all. My part in all this was taking photos of the pairs, and putting up the auctions on the website-- taking in the money by paypal-- and helping prepare them for shipping. Drop them at the post office for express mail-- and collect anywhere from $150-$300 for the pair of fish. My job was done.
Then the family grew... He took down most of the aquariums that he used for raising out the baby fish-- and started two 55 gal tanks in our bedroom... and a 30 gal and a 20 gal in our bedroom. There was also a 55 gal mixed tropical tank in the living room. (This will be the last one to go... he's gotten them all out of the bedroom today!!) Four years ago, he started on a building to move all the aquariums into. It was a slow process, because he was building it out of items he picked up free or from outlet building supply places. Believe it or not, it is a nice looking setup to keep the fish in.
He's furnished it nicely... all kinds of aquariums set up out there... even a couple of recliners he can kick back in to relax and watch the fish.
This has gone from him picking up and raising out angelfish-- to buying a few breeding pairs of different types of african cichlids-- and breeding those. Quite profitable during certain times of the year. Hopefully when he gets all these aquariums out and the fish adjust to the change, they will start breeding again. Which would mean some mega bucks about June when the time is right to auction & ship what is raised out over the winter & early spring.
More than you wanted to know, huh? LOL
Oh... the total number of aquariums he will have set up out there will be about 20, at last count... and he wants a 180 gallon tank so he can get into raising some larger fish.
You asked...
Can't have that.....
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