What to do with large # baby Bangaii?

[Sharkey18]

I have been breeding Bangaii cardinals for several years. I broke down my tanks when I remodeled my house but I have been back up and running for about a year and breeding again for about 6 months.

Between my pair and a friends pair we are now sitting on 62 baby bangaii's and I have 2 other young pairs that are getting ready to breed.

My question is: What to do with all of these fish? Bangaiis are listed as threatened in the wild and obviously captive breeding can help reduce stress on wild populations.

So I can sell them through my local club, I can probably start selling to my local LFS's. Is anyone producing a large quantity of captive bred fish and selling them regionally or even nationally?

Would love to hear about scaled up breeding programs.

 

[ikanlaut]

that is great!! why don't you start selling or trading them to the local lfs?

 

[reefstew]

Almost any lfs will buy them if the price is right.

 

[Sharkey18]

Yeah, I've been doing some reading and that seems like the best route to go. Thanks!

 

[woodnaquanut]

Where are you located? I'd love to get local CB fish.

 

[rogersb]

My petco sells them for $20 for CB so don't expect much money. I think they go on sale for $15 so probably only worth a couple dollars a piece to stores.

 

[accordsirh22]

i know sunpet was wholesaling the wildcaughts for 11 and the cbb for 28, which is borderline criminal imo. either way, you should be able to get $10 a pop for them easy

 

[shifty51008]

Actually youll be lucky to sell them for more than 10 at a lfs most likely around 6 or 7

 

[Spyderturbo007]

I have a breeding pair, but no LFS will buy them from me if I decided to raise the fry. The all say "sorry, but we don't buy from hobbyists".

 

[leveldrummer]

Where are you located? will you ship? Id take some.