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On Acclimating Livestock , (& See Article Below on Guerilla Acclimation Techniques)
Many organisms are lost due to inadequate, improper acclimatizing. Collectors, distributors, transhippers, wholesalers, retailers and hobbyists suffer most of their losses in the process of receiving new livestock. When placing fishes, inverte ...
900-1000 Words on Live Corals
New folks to the marine and reef aquariums are often amazed to find out how "young" these hobbies are. In all actuality, only since the mid-eighties of last century have we been able to keep "reef life" alive with any success. ...
A Brief Introduction to Setting Up A Marine Aquarium
Like all major subjects about the marine aquarium hobby, setting up a system is full of new terminology, concepts, and controversy… But don’t become overwhelmed. Once you’ve gone through the learning of your options, and gathe ...
A Complete Livestock Treatment System
A systematic scientific approach to aquatic life keeping results in reduced costs and increased efficiency and enjoyment. One aspect of the livestock business that sorely needs improvement and continuous updating is disease diagnosis and treatment ...
Air and Water Moving Pumps; Selection & Sales
Pumps and related accessories are a key category in aquarium sales. These tools are medium-to-large ticket sales items on their own, but can do so much more for your store. They should be functioning to distinguish you as a premier Specialty Outle ...
Aquarium Decorative Accessories, Merchandising, Selling, Selecting
Of all the definable sales categories of aquatics products, tanks, filtration, medications, foods, lighting…. there is none as profitable as decorative accessories. If you disagree with me on this statement you should read and heed the follo ...
Aquarium Service Business
The concept of running a service company in concert with a retail business is not new to many industries. A survey of periodic literature points up the tremendous growth in the service sectors of employment and the prospectus for more growth. Ther ...
Avoiding the Summer Doldrums In Aquatic Sales
Are reefs going out of fashion? When will real freshwater (i.e. live plant) systems be a substantial part of the U.S. market? Can tank bred and raised marine livestock hope to supplant wild-caught stocks? You’d be har ...
Basic Garden Pond Components: Livestock & Service
Unlike much of tropical freshwater and marine livestock sales, garden pond plants, fishes and other animal sales can be surprisingly highly profitable. This due to three principal factors; the seasonality of sales, higher survivability of stock, a ...
Basic Garden Pond Components: When & How to Merchandise Them
For decades I was accused of being "the little boy who cried Pond!" by folks in the trade; no longer. Look around you, there are a dozen manufacturers offering full pond product lines; complete lines with liners, books, pumps, filters, c ...
Beginner Marine Livestock: Some of the Best Available Right Now
The "giving" and cooler weather season is among us, combining to provide pressure on livestock suppliers to make available new and established "standards" for marine hobbyists. Yes, there are seasonal variations in what’ ...
Breeding Marine Fishes at Home
Once the "Holy Grail" of the saltwater aquarium experience, breeding and rearing marine fishes (and non-fishes) has become, if not easy, far from impossible. Indeed, many of the most popular types of marines; Clownfishes, Dottybacks ( ...
Building Your Aquatic Library
What can you do to participate, learn and make known to aquaristic others your ideas, notions, facts, methods and attitudes beyond fish-store shopping, club events, visiting with tolerant friends and family? Take a look at the title again! Of cour ...
Central Filtration Systems
In the dark, distant years of independent aquarium systems, when days were long, backs were sore and arms appreciably stronger, aquatics hobbyists, retailers, wholesalers et al. were oft heard making strong slogans such as, "Water change day! ...
Cleaning Coral, Plastic Plants and Other Aquarium Ornaments
Periodic cleaning of aquarium decorations is necessary to maintain aesthetic and reduce algae proliferation. Many situations are the result of too much light coupled with high nutrient levels, too few plants and/or "scavengers", ...
Collecting Aquarium Literature
Along the way, from goldfish, to freshwater community, to specialized/oddball; to forays of collecting & possibly breeding cichlids et al., through attempts at saltwater, back (if you live long and well enough) to goldfish and plants, th ...
Disinfecting Nets and Related Equipment
The single most common vector of carrying disease from one system to another is by way of nets, specimen containers and other catching equipment that wipes off skin, slime and disease-causing organisms from one batch of organisms to another. This ...
Employment Opportunities in the Pet-Fish Business
Email Listing (Fritz offering employment opportunities!) Dear Mr. Fenner, I cannot help but notice what incredible emails you send out. While you manage to make the forwarded emails seem personal, you must be forwarding them to intelligent men ...
FAQs 2 About the Business of Pet-Fishing, Are You Ready?
Public Aquariums... discover, discern your destiny, seek your path, become yourself 1/25/06 Hello, I love saltwater fish and love taking care of my little reef tank enough that I want to work in a public aquarium.
FAQs about Business Financing
Question you may be able to help with. Possible new LFS Yes I and a friend are interested in starting a pet store. Our Main focus of the store will be our Fish department. We are also going to be focused on ...
FAQs about Business Locating/ions
Re: your ol' buddy from the west Texas desert... Wasn't demeaning PetCo as a chain. This specific store has a bad showing for Saltwater stuff. The supply of books and reading material is abysmal and the livestock selection is very small. The tanks ...
FAQs about Business Personnel
Job Opportunity Bob, I am sitting here waiting for fish to finish dripping (been working 16.5 hours so far today with another hour or so to go- thank goodness I love this industry or I'd be dead by now!), passing the time by finally taking a good ...
FAQs about Business Personnel
Job Opportunity Bob, I am sitting here waiting for fish to finish dripping (been working 16.5 hours so far today with another hour or so to go- thank goodness I love this industry or I'd be dead by now!), passing the time by finally taking a good ...
FAQs about Business Set-Up
Retail Acrylic Holding Systems sources 1/18/06 Hi Bob, Do you know of a company that manufactures the acrylic fish holding tanks seen in retail stores? Please advise. Thanks Nancy Looking for dry-goods wholesaler that's not out to gouge your eyes out 1/18/06 Hello All, Re: Multi Tank Systems, Size does Matter 2/2/06 Maybe I should ask another question. Collecting in Kauai? 3/4/06 Hey crew, New Pump Plumbing Question Hi Bob, I've had a frustrating day (and evening) installing a new pump, and I desperately could use some wise guidance. Here's the deal: I have a Mag 12 pump on my 300 gallon reef tank. The flow rate for the tank is ... Home business ... a nudging 3/21/06 Hi Bob, Coral skeleton source I found your articles and letters very informative. I have not been in the business for over ten years. I can see a lot has changed and am having trouble finding a good decorative (skeleton) coral source e ...
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