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"A lot of \"private breeders\" will also import fish and sell those to keep up with demand. I've seen several YouTube/FishTube guys who started out as private breeders selling their own fry who now mostly import and resell.  You might as well buy from Petsmart as from them since they're all just buying and reselling fish instead of breeding them themselves. If a \"private breeder\" you're interested in buying from has unboxing videos showing them unboxing hundreds of the fish they're \"breeding\" yeah, they're not so much a \"private breeder\" anymore as just another fish store. You have to be a smart consumer these days. If a \"private breeder\" always has ample stock of whatever fish you're looking for, odds are they're not breeding them but are importing them. Real breeders only have stock from time to time. It's cheaper, easier, and more profitable to import fish than breed them yourself, so many former \"private breeders\" have gone that route and more or less deceive their buyers who think they've buying locally bred fish. I could name names, but that might get me in trouble, but just be forewarned that it's definitely buyer beware time in the tropical fish hobby. A lot of people who made their reputations on fish they bred, aren't selling fish they bred these days. They're just reselling stuff they imported.\n \n"
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