Purchase Tropical fish, it's a good hobby and can turn into a hefty profit with little work on your part. Once you have been in the hobby for a while you will learn more and more about tropical fish. once you get into breeding tropical fish you can see where the profits can come from. Young fish 3 months old or 2 inch long can be sold back to the independant fish store, or online.

Anyone can purchase tropical fish. online or at pet stores, you can sell tropical fish at some stores, online advertizing, and from the home. If you look at it as an investment, you can make extra money by raising and selling Tropical fish, some fish are easy to raise and some are hard, some will cost little and some will cost a lot. some require a small tank and some a larger tank. so a little research is required, before getting into the hobby for profit.

If you were to decide to start with something simple you might start with live bearers. I would suggest guppies, mollies, or swordtails. To make it Profitable buy a dozen or so which ever fish you want to go with, put them in a hevyley planted tank with a lot of grass on top of water. get a breeder net and when you see the female about to bust put her in the net and wait until she has her babies before taking her out try to keep the young separated from the grown up and you will have lots of fish in no time at all.

The fry grow fast and at about one inch and a half you can start reselling. expect to get about one- fourth what they sell for in the stores if you sell to the store and adding shipping cost expect to get 50% profit from what they sell for in stores you can make 75% profit by underselling the pet shops.

From your purchase of tropical fish, lets say Mollie's, a dozen should reap no less than 4 female's, the average brood is about 15 surviving fry that times 4 female's is equal to 60 fry every 2 months or times 6 times a year which gives you 360 baby mollies to sell each year. Now keep in mind this is only one species out of thousands that can be bred in capitivity.selling the fry for only 50 cents each and you made a profit of $180 for about 10 hours of work per year in care and maintenance and about 3 hours in advertizing on-line.

Now for egg- layers you can expect anywhere from 60-2000 eggs and about a 25% survival rate and depending on the species will determine the price, for instance Red Bay Snook babies at 3 inches will sell for up to $16 each. while a Blue or Three Spot Gourami  will get you about $1 at 2 inches. So purchase tropical fish and make a profit with your new hobby.