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On 5/2/2024 at 1:14 PM, GoofyGarra said:
placed an order yesterday, curious to see if the shipping rates will be faster. @Cory is there fish food at the new place?
Basically everything is at the new place. We have fish foods in stock, We ship full time from Kentucky now.
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On 5/2/2024 at 1:04 PM, Tazalanche said:
I just found out about this today & am very excited because it's only about 3 hours away,. Shipping was pretty quick before, so now my shipping time should be super quick!
When will the new warehouse it go live?New warehouse has been live for about 10 days now. 98% operational. A few items sitting out of stock. but otherwise good to go.
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Unfortunately it is correct we only allow the approved vendors list. Even with praise. Praise starts, then others say, I had a bad experience or talk about a completely different company. Then we start getting emails from competitors etc. It's a whole situation we want to avoid. I'm glad you had a good experience, and I like Erik as well.
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My current fish room has higher hardness, and so doe sour Kentucky warehouse. Both have growing plants. Do you have a green thumb? Whats your setup, have pictures? Which plants are you trying to grow? Most often we find people are "doing all the right things" and but not understanding what they are doing. Often left searching to an answer, and start trying random things, like plantings an anubias into substrate for different ph/hardness when the Anubias prefers harder water.
At a very basic and predictable level. Plants want light, fertilizer and time. Now you just need to figure out which one of those you aren't delivering.
You have an anubias, they can basically grow in the dark. You could be giving it too much light. Whats the nitrate level from easy green in your aquarium? Often people can put in 1 dose a week not realizing their tank needs more and msot of the week the plants are starving. Do you have algae? they eat up fertilizer much faster than plants. How long is the light on? Plants basically can't photosynthesize more than 12-14 hours and algaes can strip fertilizer out after that.
I'd start with nitrates, pictures of the overall tank, how often you dose, what light you're using at what intensity. From there we can trouble shoot some more. -
What are you feeding him? What are you doing to engage with him? Got a mirror or something for him to chase against the glass like a pencil eraser? Temp up to 80 might perk him up a bit more.
Also if you've owned him for 2 years, if he was already a year old, puts him at 3, might be slowing down a bit naturally from old age.
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Glad to hear your fish are enjoying. I think for the brine shrimp it depends on what fish you have. I find platies, angelfish, and other fish that aren't afraid to eat out in the open gobble them up.
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felt this meme was appropriate
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I myself am going to resize my fish room. I'm going to turn it into a an office with a computer and my tanks. I believe it's easy to get over stimulated in the aquarium hobby. Rare fish pop up, new fish pop up etc. Unlike most hobbies, fish aren't a hobby you can buy in bulk, let it sit there and wait for you to have time to get to it. I'll make a video on this for sure, and also document how I change my fish room. I've got quite a few thoughts on it.
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We have removed aquahuna from the approve vendors list. Now that they're selling plants against us, it doesn't make sense for us as a company to let them be promoted. There will be plenty of spaces on the internet where people can discuss who to buy plants from. However on our forum, it will be aquarium co-op that is talked about and recommended for live plants. Or your local retail stores.
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Every market will be different. Every store will be different. We retail Endlers at 4.99. Most customers only want males. Also the easier something is to breed the more competition you'll have. Routinely someone just drops off 50+ endlers at the store for free because they are crowding their tank.
You quoted me saying operate like a business. But you also asked, do I need a business license. You're already on a path to no operating like a business. You need a business license. Any store wanting to do actual volume, needs you to have a business license. This allows them to properly account for them tax wise. You'll likely need to store their wholesale/resellers permit on file to be able to sell to them without charging tax. Both parties will want invoices so that they can deduct the items from taxes. You'll want to justify writing off foods, electricity, partial rent, tanks etc. They'll want to be able to show it as a COGS and deduct it from the profit.
Just because a store isn't selling something doesn't mean there isn't a market for it. I don't sell lots of stuff, but it's because we focus on a specific thing, planted community aquariums.
My best advise would be get started, learn along the way, run a legit company. Every time you step away from a legit company you're 1 step closer to just being a hobbyist. Get a business license, get a checking account and credit card in the business name. Buy everything with the credit card to make tax time easy. Then take cash, check, credit from the stores, with invoices. The easiest will be paypal invoices/credit cards at the beginning.
I don't mention this in videos, but lots of people are never meant to be the face of their business. People assume that's how it works because they watch me do it. But most companies have lots of people who aren't good at selling, but great at running day to day operations. You may be terrible at getting stores to buy, but a great breeder. Or vise versa. You'll need to learn where you struggle and improve on it. Often times you may have to create and supply marketing materials for the stores about your products. Theres a reason they don't sell it, could be education, could be marketing etc.
My advice is to start with something that's already selling at the stores. If they sell 50 red platies a month. And sell 0 endlers per month. Which do you think will be easier to get them to buy from you and have them sell volume? As you learn to supply necessities you can gamble some of your time/profits on what you think might be missing from the market.
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Thought I’d share some pictures from building our new warehouse in Kentucky.
4x the space of our old warehouse, closer to the majority of our customers, the hope is even faster delivery.
Now for some pics.
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I believe the metal leeches into the water and is harmful over time.
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I've never had a problem making my own ant bait with borax. I haven't seen any problems from it. I'm not saying it could never be a problem, but it hasn't ever been one for us. We get ants in the store and sometimes in my fish rooms over the years. They seek out the warmth and water during the cold months.
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Crypt nurii.
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Thought I'd post some information. First data and graphic for our light PAR values. We'll be making modifications to fit the website. All testing was done on a 65 gallon aquarium. So the 8 inches from center data won't be correct for small tanks like a 5 gallon.
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We didn't end the partnership with Aquahuna, they requested to end it with us. They wanted to stand on their own 2 legs without our advertising. They'll be treated like all other vendors on this forum for us.
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This discussion is becoming aggressive. Shutting it down.
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What a character. love it.
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I wanted to follow up. Someone did a comparison on this AQQA heater vs the co-op heater. There is now some data that shows they are indeed different heaters using different parts even though they look similar.
The Blue and orange lines are two Co-Op heaters, while the red and green lines are two of the knockoff heaters. Each is heating approximately a 20-gallon tank (though the green one may be more like 25-30 gallons, in the rubbermaid trash can).
They're not the same heater!
The Co-op heater has incredibly-stable temperature control, probably the best I've ever seen, and as good as much more expensive models like the Fluval E series. Notice that the fluctuations are no more than the resolution of the temperature probe itself! The AQQA knockoff is not nearly as good -- notice the .6 degree fluctuation -- more in line with most bi-metallic strip heaters like the Eheim Jager. The electronics are all sealed in black epoxy, so I have no idea if the brains are different between the two, or if it's just different programming. Maybe it's the more accurate programming that caused the failures prompting all the returns? I don't know.
It's probably good enough for most folks. But it's not the same heater. RIP the Aquarium Co-Op heater. 🙂
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Dang, some real deals in that bargain bin. $1 female bosmani rainbows?!
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I don't think we ever got to the bottom of it, because with our testing it worked.
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On 2/12/2024 at 1:10 PM, Maximus said:
I'm a local - and was trying to use Google Maps to find aquarium stores. Their algorithm was effectively only showing me Petcos... what a joke. Why in the world does a low-rated chain store appear whilst a 4.9 star rated store with thousands more reviews not show up? I ended up finding them by zooming in on particular areas around the Greater Seattle Area and re-searching. Found it tagged finally... but no name appears on the map for the pin! Come on Google. I think I was searching through the list view when I finally found it. I was gobsmacked that this little fish store has 4000+ reviews and wasn't appearing, and the nearby Petco with 1000 reviews and a poorer rating does. Live and die by the internet and SEO, I suppose.
@Maximus This is good feedback. @bnaturally and I will look into if there is anything we can optimize to help it stand out on the nearby maps.
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I use 1 pound of crushed coral per 10 gallons of water mixed into the substrate. or 1 pound in a filter bag in a filter, replace it as needed.
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Whats the pH of this water? I've seen this type of thing affect ranchus when the pH is below 7. I treat it with fixing water parameters, and then Salt at 1 tablespoon per gallon of water.
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I'm bumping this, now is the time to start those saltwater ponds. I'm gonna start mine this week. I'll shoot a video and post some pictures 😉 Anyone else got theirs going yet?