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I can comment on why I wouldn't want to buy them as a store. They seem over priced to me for wholesale rates. Buying them 20+ at a time, they are usually the same color variants. Do you have your business license? What forms of payment are you taking? What guarantee do you provide? What day of the week do you deliver?
Bettas are always going to be hard. I don't even want Dean's bettas, too many of the same betta just doesn't sell. I'm attaching a vendor I don't purchase bettas from, but they are likely the prices a store would be paying in your area. At our ordering level where we import, bettas can be as cheap as 19 cents... The tradeoff is you gotta house and take care of 100 bettas of the same variety type. Typically the most bettas go for wholesale is about $10 each if it's some the latest color/fin types and rare. Usually 30 of them is the minimum.
What I see is you're an unknown source to the store, charging top dollar with high minimums. There isn't really an incentive for them to use you over wholesalers. Typically bettas from wholesalers are good quality cause they come in weekly and never touch the wholesalers water. Unlike schooling fish that can pick up disease and such and usually do better from a breeder.
So you might try lower the price some and the quantities to make them more appealing to the store. However this may make them unprofitable to you. While unfortunate, it usually means you'd have to scale to compete, if you can't directly just make a better product. Most people assume their product is better, when in reality, they can be more problematic buying from a local hobbyist, because you have to learn how to keep their fish thriving, vs the wholesaler you buy from all the time. Things like you keep your bettas at 6.4ph when they need to be at 7.2 to sell to mass public and other such things.
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Some days more unemployed 😛
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Something is wrong with it's nervous system, typically doesn't spread.
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We don’t allow the Black Friday sales either. Really this forum isn’t here to discuss deals and products. It’s to offer help.
Every time someone shops elsewhere we don’t make the money, and often we end up doing the customer service. Half of our customer service tickets are for issues not even related to anything we have sold.
Think of it this way, a car dealership doesn’t want someone posting signs in their show rooms to buy TVs and computers on Black Friday. They want them focused on buying a car. Our business is no different. We want customers thinking about us and not others.
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Well typically when you put water in it, it levels out quite a bit. the cinder blocks typically have imperfections. They'll compress into the wood. This is one of those officially you should be 100% level. However in practice I've never had a problem personally in my fish room.
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Check the tank rim for rotting food.
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Ammonia is beneficial for plants. I suggest watching this video on cycling a planted tank.
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What fish were in the tank with them? Things like a missing eye usually comes from aggression. If there was aggression it could lead to some skinny fish as well.
What are you feeding the neons? Something like blood worms might be too big for them, or old expired food, or possibly only sinking wafers etc could all have an impact. As we collect more information, it's more likely we'll find the problem. Otherwise the easy answer is "neon tetra disease" aka I don't know what's wrong.
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Looks to be hair algae. There can be a few causes, and a few remedies.
You can read the blog article about algae here, the part about hair algae and then watch the video at the bottom that will give more solutions to the algae as well. -
Hard to say, with the light being so low, could be a tumor or mass?
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Adding the members only video just so my build journal has it all to look back on in future years.
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What meds have you used on these fish since you've gotten them? At the minimum I'd recommend another round of deworming from something like paracleanse.
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I think the common advice is going to be, upgrading your tank before adding more inhabitants. With all that filtration and the rocks in there, it's taking up a decent amount of space. It's kind of like having an apartment with way too much furniture, going to make it seem a lot smaller than it actually is.
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I'm guessing this is gonna take some googling, in general heavy metals are bad, but to know what would be coming out of those mines, seems like it would be hard to know.
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Technically you can feed baby fish too much. Mostly it's too much for too long that's a problem. Guppies can be fed so much that at the 2 month mark their chest cracks open for instance. But this is overfeeding for the first 2 months of their life and takes a lot to do it.
As for weaning, you've got it right, most fish aren't hard to transition.
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I think the picture is too blurry and most of us don't see which brown spot you're talking about?
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On 11/4/2020 at 10:10 AM, quirkylemon103 said:
can you think of any way to have auto brine feeding?
I have a system designed just not tested it. Haven’t tried to automate since my last attempt about 5 years ago at the store.
pic of stain starting to go up on the walls.
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On 11/4/2020 at 11:46 AM, Mridul Singh said:
Alright, that one was pretty clever. Even the Taconomy lol.
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If everything would stop breaking around me, I could have time to get it ready. At this point there might not even be a stream this week at all lol.
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Ah, if it's the 12 inch tall 12 gallon, I'd go with like 25% power with blues turned off.
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looks like its just nitrogen. That number on the front stands for NPK.
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Looks like it could be hole in the head starting? What are the water parameters?
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I'm not quite sure, I get it in the bottom of ponds and such. Never been any form of harmful from what I've seen.
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in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
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I vote rotting food as well.