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The Fish Bowl

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Hey guys, our name is "The Fish Bowl." we are a small company getting ready to open a shop that our little side of the earth hasn't seen yet. Other than being chinchilla, chihuahua, and small fish breeders, we also have a lot of experience in construction and business. We are building this all from the ground up. The ultimate goal of our company is to provide pet lovers with "affordable" dream pets, cutom-build aquariums, cages, stands, and the opportunity to adopt pets via our animal rescue center. And all being a 100% eco-friendly store where even the animal waste will be used as compose to plant gardens and trees for our community.

I am asking for any advice or info on the following:
what size tanks need tempered glass
ideas on large scale filtration systems
ideas on large scale breeding tanks (fish)
possible sponsers interested in our idea
grants or donations for our cause

all info is greatly appreciated. thank you.
we'll keep y'all updated on us as we start this adventure.
 
well for filtration use a *** load of really big pool filters.
 
amehel0;997114; said:
well for filtration use a *** load of really big pool filters.
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Your intelligence is only exceeded by your eloquence.

You know better than to troll, help or stay out of the conversation.

Dr Joe

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The Fish Bowl;995947; said:
Hey guys, our name is "The Fish Bowl." we are a small company getting ready to open a shop that our little side of the earth hasn't seen yet. Other than being chinchilla, chihuahua, and small fish breeders, we also have a lot of experience in construction and business. We are building this all from the ground up. The ultimate goal of our company is to provide pet lovers with "affordable" dream pets, cutom-build aquariums, cages, stands, and the opportunity to adopt pets via our animal rescue center. And all being a 100% eco-friendly store where even the animal waste will be used as compose to plant gardens and trees for our community.

I am asking for any advice or info on the following:
what size tanks need tempered glass
ideas on large scale filtration systems
ideas on large scale breeding tanks (fish)
possible sponsers interested in our idea
grants or donations for our cause

all info is greatly appreciated. thank you.
we'll keep y'all updated on us as we start this adventure.
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:welcome::mwave::welcome:

To our Universe :D.

How about some pix of your establishment so we can see what you have to work with?

Is it a store front or do you have land available?

Square footage?

Landlord ok with 50,000g of water in-house?

Power available (220v / 440v / 3 phase)?

What are your assets now?

What kind of budget are we talking?

Tempered glass...anything over a 20g mostly. If they're for resale, for liablity purposes make everything tempered.

Others questions pending above answers.

Dr Joe

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Good luck to you, hope you can get the advice you need here...let's face it, if you can't get it here, where else can you go! Liking your idea about the recycled waste as compost. I do a similar thing with my tank waste - I clean out my filters in the old water from water changes and the whole lot goes in to the jungle in my front room. Needless to say, the plants are thriving....
 
I'm afraid I can't help with your questions, however I'd like to say goodluck to you, the idea sounds fantastic! And WELCOME! :)
 
Good luck! That sounds awesome. Be careful about composting gardens with mammal waste. Some parasites have been shown to survive composting and can be transmitted through the plants and their products.
 
thanx all for the info. as it stands, we are just in the paperwork and legality process. we are on the phones now with manufacturers and oversea companies, trying to find products that stand out, things that you will not find in just a pet shop. we'd like to set up an "education station" for kids and parents alike to explain and understand the difference between the nonpoisonous and their look-a-like poisonous reptiles. we're in the process now of building and stocking aquariums. we have our eye on a storefront property now. we have prices of the things we plan to distribute being faxed to us today.
this is somewhat of a slow process and we're not quite done. we are in the "drawing board" stage. we're taking our time, not to overlook anything in the business plan cause that is going to determine our buget. because of this we do not have any pics just yet. i plan on using our house to breeding. we have two houses with 4 available rooms. for breeder tanks and large cages, i plan on having 10 foot plexi-glass tanks w/ dividers. i am a glazer, and i have access to any type of glass for almost nothing per sheet. i'm just not too sure how to run a large scale filtration system for tanks. i have taken notes on the questions from "dr. joe" and noted the parasite comment from "mjmc." the comment from "bmxer" is exactly the intention we have for the waste-not idea. thanx for that too. above all thanx for all info and please keep us in mind.
your friends at "the fish bowl"
 
wow, DR. can you enlighten me as to how

"The Hiatt TBPC was used because of its large surface area per cu. ft. for a nitrifying bacteria platform. When used in conjunction with the RIght Now! bacteria, nitrates are converted to nitrogen gas and eliminated from the system. This has eliminated the need for constant water changes in order to reduce nitrates."

is posable, do you know how it is that the mitraits are turned into nitrogen? which is a inert hemless gas?\


The Fish Bowl, I would think that haveing tempered glass tanks would help with ganeral saftey and insurance aswell, are you planning on haveing classes? or just a general larning attitude?, your missing statement sounds sound do you by chance have expirence keeping fish bolth Fresh water and salt water?...


I would have thought that a bio tower, large skimmer filter and uv was the way to go, but i dont yet keep salt and i havent kept a breeder setup for more then 5 years now, and that was a freshwater setup.


I have never seen or herd of that big "red torpido" filter before, it must be expensive and something that full of carbon must be extreemly expensive to maintain and replace the carbon...
 
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