Selling Guppies

**GuppyMan1** · January 24th-2005 11:41 PM

ok i am curently breeding guppies and they have a lot of fry. well what do you do with all of the adult fish

i was going to sell them to one of my lfs but when i sold them my 2 angel fish they didnt even give me any money, store cridet, not even a (thank you)

does petco or petsmart give you guys any money,store cridet, or a thankyou lol

let me know

GuppyMan1

**bobnelson** · January 25th-2005 12:05 AM

Most stores will give store credit so either way they are making a large profit off of you..but if your like me and seem to be at the pet store every other day, it's not so bad.

**guppiecouple** · January 27th-2005 03:37 AM

that depends...How old are you?!

**FancyGuppyGuy** · January 27th-2005 03:48 AM

Most LFS work of the store credit deal because they get items wholesale and raise up the prices. this way they pay even less for the fish. If you can get over $1 a fish cash your doing good i think but for store credit I would have to have $1.25 or higher and even thats too cheap

If there are a bunch of people in the area raising gups then you wont get as much for them.

They will sell good quality guppies for $3-5 bucks each. For lesser fish about $2 bucks.

I had one store tell me .60 - .90 each store credit LOL!!!! I will give them away first.

this is of course if your just rasing guppies that are not IFGA quality. For those youd want premium prices. No sense paying for a good breed and getting ripped on them.

**jimwest** · January 27th-2005 05:50 AM

i get half of $5.99 a pair at one lfs but there my tanks and i do water changes and filter changes. the other 2 lfs give $1 a fish they get my secs lol petsmart and walmarts on on huge contracks with poor sick fish

**guppiecouple** · January 27th-2005 01:34 PM

I wish there were some way to get wal-mart fish tanks shut down. My local WM (Acworth) is always closed, or is it the hiram one... anyway they are always close because of sick fish and when they aren't closed down, there are tens of fish dead on the bottom or stuck to the filter... Don't fish count as Pets... cant the humaine society step in and stop this nonsince?

**kittykat013** · January 27th-2005 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by guppiecouple

I wish there were some way to get wal-mart fish tanks shut down. My local WM (Acworth) is always closed, or is it the hiram one... anyway they are always close because of sick fish and when they aren't closed down, there are tens of fish dead on the bottom or stuck to the filter... Don't fish count as Pets... cant the humaine society step in and stop this nonsince?

Wow, thats crazy! The wal-mart around my house actually has good qualitity fish. I think the most dead fish I've ever seen in the wal-mart tanks is two (not from the same tank.) I actually got four neons, one female guppy, and one cory from there about one+ month(s) (I'm not sure exactly how long. Longer than a month though.) ago. One of my neons died. But, it was a few days ago and it was because he was already TINY and the others seemed to pick on it. My female guppy is doing GREAT and my cory died. But, he died on accident. I didn't get algea waffers in time.... And my tank doesn't have algea in it. Stupid me thought he'd live off of eating just the tiny scraps of food on the bottom....

**jimwest** · January 29th-2005 05:09 AM

well your lucky 90% of walmarts fish dept should be shut down.

**FinalFantasy** · January 29th-2005 06:39 AM

how about... open your own shop? or a garage sales? LOL ... can you do that?

**FancyGuppyGuy** · January 29th-2005 07:03 AM

actually yes you can sell guppies to any one in a private transaction. although I suppose some states to have laws about mass breeding and selling of live fish.

They have to protect the rich you know

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