Thanks for all your replies...

Pretty much ruled out breeding the Piranha's.. just not how to get rid of them and make sure they go to a good home!

We didnt actually plan on having them in the first place we sort of adopted the 2 tanks.. the big one....the piranhas were in a terrible state, underfed, fungal growths and generally real poorly and the tank its self was disgusting, water hadnt been changed in god knows how long.. the filter was foul and wasnt nearly powerful enough and there was nothing in it other than some sand at the bottom! we offered to help with what little basic knowledge we had but instead they told us to either take the tank else they were gonna flush the fish and get rid of the tank! wasnt going to let that happen...

I am not really looking to make a profit from breeding, enough to cover basic costs would be nice though! doing it more as a hobby/past time... and enjoyment than for money... I know it takes a lot of time and dedication to seriously breed fish... but then so does keeping them... I am disabled and cant work so I have plenty of time to devote to my fishy friends

Spoke to someone at the LFS this morning (Customer not staff) and He siggested going for a huge assortment of guppies, platys and mollys along with easy breed plecs like the bristlenoses cos they are all always in demand and easy to breed but I have visions of the tank being over run by them lol.... His answer to that was to sell them prvately as live feeders... sorry not doing that... each to their own but I just couldnt do it!

His suggestion got me thinking tho... would it be possible to have a large community tank with different easy breed fish in there?

I know there are endless possibilities and Im sorry to keep asking but I have googled and seem to be getting contradicting facts! Hope these questions dont make me look too much of an idiot!

Many thanks again

Donna