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Is this fucking shrimp farming thing for real?! Are any if you autists actually doing this, thought it was a meme but after reading into it seems it could be profitable. Can you eat CRS?

>> No.9015139

>>9015130
Just like any dealer the first rule for shrimp farming is to not get high on your own supply.

>> No.9015215

>>9015130
Got out my mother fuckin shrimp biz. I will fuckin cut you.

>> No.9015219
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9015219

>>9015130
Did somebody say shrimp?

>> No.9015237

ornamental shrimps are not palpable. they are sold to aquarist hobbyists and the market is very flooded unless you get into the high end scene. be prepared to shell out $300 or more for a shrimp at that level.

>> No.9015238

>>9015130
It's just memes bro

>> No.9015254

>>9015130
Bin raising shrimps for years now you cyrpto faggots want in. Wtf. You dont know shit about aquarium.

>> No.9015255

>>9015139
rule 2 never sell shrimp on credit

>> No.9015261
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9015261

this is a $100 shrimp.

>> No.9015275

>>9015237
i live in hongcouver thought if asian eat em ill strike it rich but finding enough hobbyists to sell to would be a fuckin pain id imagine

>> No.9015288

>>9015261
read some stuff about blue and yellow shrimp and Hino quality but where do you find the buyers!?! i dont want to ship

>> No.9015294

>>9015130
the only people who actually make money on /biz/ are shrimp farming while buying and selling pokemon cards every moent the shrimphs aren't taking up all their attention.

there's literally no other method talked about on this board that can actually make one millionaire

>> No.9015326

>>9015238
I meme in you ass fuck boi

>> No.9015329

>>9015130
bro shrimp is a fucking BUBBLE I have been saying it for years. Buy gold instead.

t. peter

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9015332

>>9015139
tfw

>> No.9015361

>>9015254
Exactly dude. That's why you don't have to worry

>> No.9015363

>>9015326
triggered much basedboy ill run you outta town, youll be in knee pads by eoy

>> No.9015377

what to mine on shrimp farm?

>> No.9015385

>>9015294
t. 20k LINK

>> No.9015393

>>9015363
Ha. Joke on you. I use knee pads to adjust pump and filter for tanks. So many tanks. Much shrimp. Sell very low fuck boi.

>> No.9015401

>>9015130
/biz/ was founded by shrimp farmers know your heritage

>> No.9015415

How hard is it to breed arapaima?

>> No.9015416

>>9015130
These are the only good threads on /biz/ lately.

>> No.9015425

>>9015415
or arowana*

>> No.9015442

>>9015416
Nothing good about shrimo. No money in shrimp.

>> No.9015452

>>9015288
pet stores, fish forums, and so on. it's not easy as you think to strike it rich with shrimps lmao... neos barely sell for few dollars each.

>> No.9015455

>>9015442
Weak shrimp FUD m8.

>> No.9015477

>>9015130
I feel like you have to be heartless to be successful in this industry. You basically act like a father to all these shrimp who grow up under you and depend on your care, and then you murder them and sell their bodies. I just can't do it. I don't need money that badly

>> No.9015482

>>9015455
I raise shrimp for years to pay for grandmothers breast implants. Now biz all shrimp all day. Honest man never get potato.

>> No.9015506

>>9015477
Shrimps dont have soul. You can kill at will. Its not problem.

>> No.9015522

>>9015506
>>9015482
dont you sell them live?

>> No.9015540

>>9015522
Dead shrimp smell bad fuck boi.

>> No.9015552

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Breeding-epaulet-sharks-One-Male-And-Two-Females/282903796815

worth buying?

>> No.9015557

>>9015275
Nah what the Hongers want are: Abalone, lobsters, large edible sea whelks, geoducks, razor clams, King Crabs, Soon hock fish, Red Groupers and Cod

>> No.9015578

>>9015557
which one of these can I breed in tubs in my basement...?

>> No.9015602

Is it ok to hodl shrimp in my wallet?

>> No.9015611
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9015611

who /squilla/ here?

>> No.9015615

>>9015578
Go with geoducks. If you bring girls over and show them your rig seeing them will make them horny.

>> No.9015619

>>9015578
King crabs very good basement pets. Very successful. Lots of money. Everyone wants crabs.

>> No.9015640

>>9015477
>he still has emotions other than greed

you're so far away from making it, it's not even funny

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9015642

>>9015615
mmm so sexy much profit

>> No.9015650

You can literally make more $ per cubic foot than a 1080ti mining rig and you brainlets say shrimping is just a fad.

>> No.9015663

>>9015650
who buys your shrimp mate lets pool

>> No.9015666

>>9015642
Lots of good meat on that big boi. You can use the shells and skin to make crafts to sell on etsy too.

>> No.9015672

>>9015650
YOU ARE BANNED FROM BIZ. DO NOT COME BACK EVER!

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9015673

>>9015477

Not only that, but you need to be able to pull off the eyeballs of the female shrimp, otherwise they won't reproduce in captivity

>> No.9015682

>>9015673
STOP.

>> No.9015742

>>9015650
shrimps are literally tulip bulbs

>> No.9015752

>>9015673
What the fuck. Im unironically never eating shrimp again thats like some scifi horror shit. Having your eyes ripped out to instigate reproduction.

>> No.9015751

>>9015673
what the fuck

>> No.9015774

>>9015673
how do you do that on an industrial scale?

>> No.9015793

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Frontosa-Fish-Zaire-Rare-Breeding-Pairs/323209031375

>> No.9015801

>>9015774

no idea, apparently its done by hand.

if there's an actual shrimp farmer in here, maybe he can share the secrets with us

>> No.9015825

>>9015673
So she can't see is fucking anonshrimp instead of chadmantishrimp

>> No.9015849

>>9015611
>actually the mantis shrimps deadly punches is not its most impressive feature, they are known to have the most complex eyes in the world, compared to the three types of colour-receptive cones that humans possess in their eyes, the eyes of a mantis shrimp carry 16 types of colour receptive cones, I think they can even see radio waves, plus the position of their eyes gives them 360 degrees field of vision, well they are called boxers of the sea because of having the fastest attack in the animal kingdom, their fist are nothing compare to their sight
what the fuck am i reading

>> No.9015854

>>9015294
Yeah i do these things when I'm not welding for 300k a year and just keep a link ticker on my desk so I dont miss the singularity

>> No.9015857

>>9015801
shrimp farmer here, its by hand. thats what locals are for

>> No.9015867

>>9015261
350 eoy screencap this

>> No.9015883 [DELETED] 

>>9015801
seems like it's done by hand when you consider the numbers.

>"We take 100 animals from the wild and produce 20 million animals — that's 20 million animals not taken from the wild," he said.

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>>9015673
this is fucking hardcore

>> No.9015997

Real life shrimp farmer here, produce 1000T of P. monodon per year.

Shrimp are highly fecund (loads of offspring per female) so you only have to ablate ~100-200 per crop to get what you want. Easy to do.

>> No.9016011

>>9015997
Why is shrimp farming so prevalent here on /biz/? Who do you sell your crop to, btw?

>> No.9016013

>>9015997
sounds fucking horrible my dude

>> No.9016030

>>9016011
A major supermarket chain for eating. Ornamental shrimp aquaculture is actually ridiculously profitable

>> No.9016033

>>9015997
>you only have to ablate ~100-200 per crop to get what you want

has pulling out so many eyes made you numb to it?

would you be able to pull out a female human's eyes if you had to without feeling any emotion?

>> No.9016037

>>9016030
>Ornamental shrimp aquaculture is actually ridiculously profitable
Do you dabble in this as well? Which varieties are most profitable? Is this a business which can be profitable on a small scale (home operation)?

>> No.9016057

>>9015130
farm coral instead pleb

>> No.9016082

>>9015774
you pay a mouth breather minimum wage to rip the eyes out of shrimp for 12 hours a day.

>> No.9016097

>>9016033
I'm not involved in that aspect of production, I just collect the post-larvae from our hatchery. I tried to breed with my gf by pulling out her eye but it didn't make me any less impotent

>>9016037
I don't because i'm living in a rental with mates, it is profitable at all stages. Ornamental fish and shrimp cost nothing to produce and sell for stupid prices because they look pretty. e.g. a goldfish would cost ~5c to produce and they're sold to fish shops for 50c+. Just an example but you can see the ROI is insane.

I know people who have big tank systems in their garage on racks and do make a lot of money. It's also a lot of maintenance though. Aquaculture in general has enormous potential for big bucks

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>>9016097
Thanks for the reply. Can you give us any examples of profitable ornamental fish? Not looking for spoon-feeding for an actual business model here, just genuinely curious about the industry and the general state of things. Fish are really fascinating but I never thought about breeding them for profit.

>> No.9016121

>>9015130

yes you can eat them but there is very little meat

>> No.9016199

>>9016109
I can tell you from first hand experience that clownfish are a really good species (especially after finding nemo). They will sell for $40 Australian, and once you start selective breeding for cool phenotypes (i.e. pigment colour) you can net $1000 for an individual. Google snowflake clownfish to see what I mean. Marine ornamental fish are all very profitable because rich people love having big saltwater display tanks with coral, anemones and the fish to go with it (coral fragging is really easy and corals sell for a lot).

Any crustacean is generally profitable because they are very hardy, e.g. the colourful cherry shrimps people talk about on /biz/.

Most people grow South American cichlids because they are easy, but the market is quite saturated, imo, albeit still profitable.

I'm more interested in algae aquaculture atm.

>> No.9016205

Breeding rare/expensive fish/crustaceans sounds pretty fun actually. It's a shame you guys are just memeing.

>> No.9016210

>>9016109
Koi
Arowana
Bettas
Pufferfish

Coral farming is still hugely popular now but requires a complicated set-up and knowledge of how an ecosystem functions

>> No.9016438

>>9015849
Mantis shrimp are no joke, they can break the glass in aquariums, and take a finger off. Most stores won't sell them, too risky.

>> No.9016551

>>9016210
Not to mention cost, and size. To make enough corals or polyps to sell, you'd need 500-1000 gallon tanks, and a lot of the species would need a year or two or longer to be grown enough to be transported. The heating/cooling/filtering systems for tanks like that are pretty expensive - a lot of the guys doing it are in backyard setups that use natural sunlight, but still have to heat the tanks overnight.
It's a great hobby, and a lot of conservation societies exist to help out, but to do it at a commercial level, you're looking at a huge initial investment and a long wait for the first wave of sales.

Any kind of saltwater creature that sells for a lot are usually pretty hard to mate in captivity, which is why they're expensive. Seahorses sell for a lot, but they're hard to get to mate, and then keep the fry alive long enough to ship them - and you're gonna have to ship to make any kind of money.

If you really want to do it, ask the big aquarium resellers if they buy captive raised fish, and ask them what they are looking for or need. I knew someone who supplied a couple of small resellers and local shops with a regular supply of beta fish, she had a pretty big setup in her basement to farm them. It wasn't life changing money, but it was regular extra income. She said the electrical bills were what ate up most of her profits - she had well water and special filtering, which saved her water bills. If you live near the ocean, you can collect drums of seawater to fill and maintain salt tanks, if you filter it really well before. For corals, you need really clean water - the downside here is you'll also be filtering out their food, so you'll have to put fresh food back into the water.

Source: used to keep reef tanks and was looking into farming on a small scale, just out of curiosity, mostly.

>> No.9016555

>>9015130
i unironically paid 5 dollars for a shrimp for my goldfish tank that instantly got eaten by my goldfish, switched him to the cheap ones as a snack and he thrived. While the ones he hasn't eaten survive in the tank they also eat some algae and produce some chemicals or some shit for the biosystem

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>>9016438
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U11DgbefmQQ

>> No.9016614

>>9016555
I've never heard of shrimp pooping out chemicals, but they are great as cleanup crew for tanks, they will pick anything off the bottom of the tank and eat it. I've always had shrimp in my tanks for that exact reason, they cleaned my reefs. In the wild, some shrimp will hang around the tops of reefs in one spot, and fish will come by and have the parasites eaten off them. Fascinating shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaner_shrimp

It's why I kept tanks, you can watch them for hours, like watching the clown fish protect, clean and feed it's anemone. I used to keep feather dusters and Christmas Tree rocks, that stuff is awesome to watch for hours. I used to love getting new live rock and seeing what came attached to it.

>> No.9016777

>>9016614

I have a room, 3x3 meters. How much shrimp can I make here? How much food per year? How much would equipment cost? Asking for a friend.

>> No.9017765

>>9016614
you had have sex do you?

>> No.9017776

>>9015867
Underrated

>> No.9017827

>>9015912
I don't really want to eat shrimp anymore. I have no problem with eating dead animals but this is a bit much