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  1. Daniel
    Discus and bettas a fair amount. Apistogramma and pygmy sunfish to a lesser amount. If I were to try and breed something to sell to a LFS and wanted to make an actual profit, I would grow Cherry Shrimp in mini-ponds or outdoor pools. I am pretty sure the dollars coming in would be greater than the dollars going out with Cherry Shrimp.
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    I don't know. I am sure I have never made an actual profit. I have almost exclusively sold adults and stores really like large angels. But I bet you could get the stores interested starting at about 50 cent size. Local markets vary quite a bit so you will just have to ask your prospective customers what they want/what they need.
  3. Daniel
    Occasionally I will, but not on a regular basis.
  4. Daniel
    Even little angelfish are pretty aggressive when it comes to food. Check out this video of some dime sized angelfish stealing eggs. I have never kept Congo tetras so I don't know. But if there is enough food my guess the small angels will find a way to get their share.
  5. Daniel
    Changing several hundred jars a day was daunting work and depended on help from my 2 sons. One morning my 6 year old son said (bursting into tears): "Dad, I wish I had two broken legs! Me, "Oh no! Why?" Son, "So I didn't have to change the bettas jars every morning!" At 26 years old now he thinks it is pretty funny, but not so at the time. Not sure why he has never kept an aquarium? You system looks more sane.
  6. Daniel
    My list would include pygmy sunfish, blue barred sunfish, black banded sunfish, more kinds of darters than I can name, Heterandria formosa (the Least Killifish), half a dozen Fundulus type killifishes, and Gambusia. All of those could be found near the coast in freshwater ditches and streams and swamps. I don't think I have ever seen mollies in North Carolina but I haven't done much brackish water collecting.
  7. Daniel
    Oh yes, just like slurping down a spaghetti noodle.
  8. Daniel
    What they are is inexpensive. 🙂 But more seriously, they are irregularly shaped small pellets kind of like Grape Nuts cereal. If I could use only one word to describe a granule, the word I would use is 'pellet'.
  9. Daniel
    Back when I was breeding bettas, I grew thousands of them out in 1 gallon wide mouth glass jars, which is pretty similar to what you are doing. I did daily or every other day 100% water changes, so I didn't have plants or aeration in the jars.
  10. Daniel
    They definitely got a lot of baby brine shrimp and mosquito larva early on, but they also have eaten a lot of live blackworms and prepared foods like Vibra Bites, and Tetra Color granules.
  11. Daniel
    I purchased some dime to quarter sized angelfish that were very likely hatched mid to late July. I have 2 pairs from these juveniles breeding already. So that would put the minimum time at about 5 months. September 16, 2020 the fish were dime to quarter sized. Starting last week they were pairing off and beginning to lay eggs. Today:
  12. Daniel
    My guess is your platys look like super sized females to the Endlers, which pushes every known button on a male Endler. Not so much bullying as very over enthusiastic mating attempts. And that is almost impossible to prevent short of separation.
  13. Daniel
    In every negotiation you will ever be in in life, if you aren't willing to to walk away at some point you will not be taken seriously.
  14. Daniel
    When the mails are running normally I get my plants in a week or less. Which is pretty good considering that includes travel across the entire continent. Plants ship really well, but cold can be an issue if it below freezing cold. If I had money burning a hole in my pocket, I would check the weather and if that looked good then I would pull the trigger and get the plants.
  15. Daniel
    Yes, nothing official though. Usually the Livestreams are on Mondays at 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (but not always). For me, I find out when I get a notification from YouTube that there is an imminent Livestream coming up. If you subscribe to the Aquarium Co-Op YouTube channel and click the notification bell icon, you too will get the pre-golive notification
  16. Daniel
    And as it turns out, the discus that are in the old angelfish tank pictured above have also decided today is a good day to spawn. When it rains, it pours. And it is raining today. My wife thinks there is a connection.
  17. Daniel
    A recirculating pump and a heater on one side. And on the other side, storage for some old 20 lbs Carbon Dioxide tanks that I no longer use.
  18. Daniel
    It exists here on the forum. Here was a great post by @Bill Smith on how to make one:
  19. Daniel
    I think the angelfish would eat the adult Endlers if they could catch them, but they can't catch them. I have had three 40 breeders stocked with angelfish and Endlers for the last 60 days and so far no adult Endlers have gone missing. But, anytime I hear popping coming from the direction of the three 40 gallon breeders, it means one of the Endler females is giving birth and the angelfish are picking the fry off at the surface.
  20. Daniel
    And as it turns out. While trying to take the 1st of my two photos just above, the angelfish kept pecking at a sword plant leaf, you know, like they were cleaning a spot to lay eggs. Well, it turns out that they were cleaning a spot to lay eggs.
  21. Daniel
    I've had good luck with Finnex Stingrays in 40 gallon breeders.
  22. Daniel
    Yes
  23. Daniel
    @lefty o speaks the truth! According to the Manual for the Commercial Production of Swordtails file I just uploaded, Livebearer reproduction doesn't cease apparently until 51°F which just goes to show you how much cold they can tolerate.
  24. Daniel
    Apparently swordtails are just platys that were sexually selected by female platys to have big swords. Here is the Maury Povich version:
  25. Daniel
    My guess is a whole bunch transfers over to platys as platys and swordtails are super closely related species that only recently began to separate into distinct species.
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