Saw this on facebook of all places and it cracked me up - but I'm wondering if anyone has legitimately tried this? I can't see it being anywhere near as profitable as OP suggests, nor as easy (what between licencing, food handling certifications and etc.) not to mention how many of you know your average restaurant owner who needs to get their hands on more shrimp? Absolutely no way this would work, right?
>>62283243>facebookThat means some middle aged boomer will now actually do it for the 1,000 followers he still has left.
>>622832431. I believe I've seen this pic before in a shark forum. Like people were raising aquarium sharks in those tanks. 2. Having kept saltwater tanks including very large ones with shrimp, I can burst your /biz/ headcannon bubble pretty easilyMarine shrimps are some of the most expensive and delicate saltwater critters you can keep, and most people simply can't breed them in any commercia quantity because the equipment you use to purify and oxygenate seawater also sucks up and kills shrimps larvae.commercial shrimp farms get around this by being in the ocean and pumping seawater into their ponds. You cannot do this. So you're going to have a very difficult time keeping shrimps alive as they pass through multiple impellors, filters, UV sterilizers, ozone generators, and protein skimmers.
>>62283250I'd still be keen to see that, provided they did a cost evaluation at the end, a boomer would more likely have the money to waste VS a zoomer
>>62283267tl;dr: Babby shrimp get suck into filter and die
>>62283250>Middle aged boomerLmao what a retard
>>62283243Everyone stop using Facebook in like 2012, but then I joined the army and all the small town cucks are still posting in this shit. Got out in 2020 and thankfully don't talk to flyovers anymore
>>62283267Makes sense. Some of the salt water shrimp need brine water to breed also don't they? Or are the farmer shrimp usually the types that don't need this? Whats stopping people from farming fresh water shrimp + breeding them to be larger? Although I guess thats just a crayfish huh?
>>622832821. the larger skrimps would need enormous $$$ for salt mix and trace elements to mold, plus equipment and water purification equipment. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. Could be done if you live on the beach, but beachfront property is expensive enought anyone that can afford it is not raising skrimpsB. Freshwater shrimps are almost as demanding about water purity as marine species, and will never get big enough to make a decent cocktail. Though both freshwater and marine skrimps are huge money for the pet trade, as they're worth anything from a few bux for freshwater variants to $40 or $50 EACH for saltwater
>>62283282so yeah, people are farming shrimps in their home aquariums. It's not easy and it's certainly not cheapbut they're selling them to pet stores and people who keep them in aquariums. And that's a big money business. Again, not cheap or easy, but you'd get far more cash for live shrimps than you will for food shrimps.
>>62283243I love in Florida and we literally scoop shrimp out of the gulf so I'm having a hard time imagine how to make this work
>>62283290Got ya, makes sense. Yeah I can maybe see the value there for selling salt water shrimps as pets but definitely not freshwater. Sure if you get a rare breed and get a solid line going that's cool af, but shrimp breed so easily that unless you're going for those super high quaility (inbred af) lines you'd have to sell quite a few shrimp in a day just to be equalling the money of a normal ass job. Considering how easy say, cherry shrimp breed, I just can't see the demand being high enough to do that for long unless you're selling them directly to customers and not distributors. In which case you're just starting a pet store, which has its own overheads. Hardly a 'get rich quick' scheme and just like... a small fucking business lol. Rarer / harder to breed shrimp are worth more, but again - because they're rarer and harder to breed / care for. So you're offsetting possible gains with more labor time. Not to mention if one of your tanks suddenly idk explodes you've lost a tonne of value VS a tank filled with cherries. Have you seen those youtube videos "I tried farming shrimp to get rich" and the like? Always pretty poor returns.
>>62283307pretty sure OP's pic is actually shark tanks.that's a common setup for raising out shark eggscommon dogfish mostlyPossibly epaulettes, bamboos, or coral cats
>>62283307I used to live like 5 hours in-land and I think that's the only reason it could be even slightly viable, but I still have doubts. Thats why I wanted to know if anyone had tried it cause like... no way? But also incredibly based if true.
>>62283308>Have you seen those youtube videosI have not, but I did spend close to $150k on saltwater tanks over the years and know the feeling of a tank breaking and losing tens of thousands of dollars in a single shot.
>>62283324Dang dude sorry to hear it
>>62283334it's part of the game. Anyone that wants a large reef tank has to know they're just flushing cash down the toilet for fun.and it was fun. I do love keeping fishes.
>>62283314those stock tanks would work for growing out benthic instars, but shrimp larvae wouldn't survive that filtration.
What about farming big shrimp like lobster?
wait until op learns about live cattle, and farming.you can just have cows around, and sell them for meat 1K each and they just eat grass
>>62283243I was in this thread
>>62283267You mean you shrimply can’t breed them?
