Parker Aquatics

Parker Aquatics

A podcast about the aquatics business, hosted by Marcus and Misty — breeding, selling, pricing, and species selection for people who keep fish, breed fish, or want to sell fish.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    The Live Food Kitchen: Feeding Your Breeders for Pennies

    Live food is the cheapest way to get your breeders spawning. Marcus and Misty walk through the whole live food kitchen: baby brine shrimp hatchery, daphnia, microworms, and vinegar eels, the first-food ladder for fry, which food fits each fish in the Parker Aquatics fish room, the cost math at about fifty cents a hatch, the winter indoor plan, and the mistakes to avoid.

  2. 3d ago

    Selling Online: From Swap Table to Storefront

    Marcus and Misty take the next step after the swap table: selling your home-bred fish online. Which platforms say no (Facebook Marketplace, Etsy, Craigslist), how eBay, AquaBid, Light Fish, and Reddit's r/AquaSwap actually work, what sells best right now, the fee math on a real order, and the scam rules that protect you — including never shipping on a promise.

  3. 6d ago

    Pricing Your Fish: What Your Home-Bred Stock Is Really Worth

    Marcus and Misty work out what home-bred fish are really worth: your true cost, the market, grading, bundles, eggs, shipping math, and holding your price.

  4. Nov 4

    Legal Before You Sell: Permits, Sales Tax, and the Paperwork That Protects Your Fish Room

    Marcus and Misty walk through the paperwork before the first sale: the Mississippi aquaculture permit, local licenses and zoning, sales tax, interstate shipping rules, hobby versus business taxes, and a simple record system.

  5. Nov 2

    Your Next Money Fish: Endlers, Celestial Pearls, and Picking a Breed That Pays

    Your Next Money Fish: Endlers, Celestial Pearls, and Picking a Breed That Pays

  6. Oct 29

    Shipping Live Fish: Getting Your Home-Bred Stock Across the Country Alive

    Marcus and Misty explain how to ship live fish by mail, from bagging and insulated boxes to carriers, weather holds, pricing, and fair DOA policies

  7. Oct 26

    Winter-Proofing Your Outdoor Fish Room: How Cold-Water Fish Ride Out Winter

    Marcus and Misty explain how to winterize an outdoor fish room, species by species, from feeding taper and gas exchange to protecting broodstock for spring sales

  8. Oct 25

    Your First Swap Table: Turning Home-Bred Fish Into Sales

    Marcus and Misty walk through turning home-bred fish into actual sales at club swaps and auctions: how swaps differ from auctions, lot types and splits, bagging and transport, pricing for the room, haggling and trading, and following up after the table.

  9. Oct 25

    Small Tanks, Big Opportunity

    Marcus and Misty explain where the money is actually moving in aquariums

  • 9 Episodes

About

A podcast about the aquatics business, hosted by Marcus and Misty — breeding, selling, pricing, and species selection for people who keep fish, breed fish, or want to sell fish.

Information

  • Creator
    Parker Aquatics
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Parker Aquatics
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    Parker Aquatics