Do I need a License(s) for starting a breeding buisness sort of thing?

[fishboy]

It's not easy to make a profit from breeding snakes so i am told. In the last 2 years i have spend somewhere in the region of £5-6000 on animals and equipment and have yet to make a penny back from selling. I hope to breed something this year but i will very unlikely make back more than the cost of feeding them, let alone the money i spend on electricity and driving to breeders meetings to purchase new snakes. There is no question therefore that i would be classed as a hobbyist with an interest in breeding to subsidise my hobby and would not require a petshop license.

To make any sort of profit and be classed as a business you would need to make a huge outlay in the beginning, either on huge numbers of lower end stock, housing and warehouse space, and sell wholesale at a low price, or you would spend a huge amount on new morphs which would have a higher return for lower numberof animals. Either would cost a lot to start and i think you would need to either be, or predict to be earning over a minimum threshold, to be considered a business. I'd imagine to do this and get a business loan, business accounts, be VAT registered, have business insurance and so on, you would be considered a business and would need to have a PSL. This would also mean you would not be allowed to sell animals at shows as this is restricted to hobbyists only.

I am in no way an expert and i'm sure someone will correct me on some of these point. This is literally just what i've learnt of this forum