How to start a fish store?

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well my friend started a fish shop 2years a go, after 8months he found a larger shop as bussiness was doing great and now he's looking at an exstremely large shop to rent aswell as his shop which hes going to close to public and keep only tanks for breeding and large stock like tanks there where people can go and collect, In his new shop will be lots of rows of tanks and displays......
He does a lot of bussiness via ebay selling tonnes of betta splendens <which is his main focus,,,,is the souths number1 distributor of betta's.....
All of his tanks are seperate with the own filters, so if he gets an outbrake of ill fish he does not lose them all:D
 
south coast nelly;2633690; said:
well my friend started a fish shop 2years a go, after 8months he found a larger shop as bussiness was doing great and now he's looking at an exstremely large shop to rent aswell as his shop which hes going to close to public and keep only tanks for breeding and large stock like tanks there where people can go and collect, In his new shop will be lots of rows of tanks and displays......
He does a lot of bussiness via ebay selling tonnes of betta splendens <which is his main focus,,,,is the souths number1 distributor of betta's.....
All of his tanks are seperate with the own filters, so if he gets an outbrake of ill fish he does not lose them all:D
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Wow thats really good! I think i mgith i will be selling over internet also and shop. That is preetty true about filters. I think i willl be doing seperatly.

Thanks alot for your post!!!!

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your welcome, havent read the post as havent time,but i would go with small community fish and things like betta's until you establish a good client base,,,,keep the shop fairly small at 1st, Do not go crazy and keep prices very reasonable....Try to have a fact sheet which would guide people through all the stages of a tank set up, and a few different types of community tanks as display tanks in the shop with different fish species,,,,then once you discover what people in that area want, you can then start to stock with those kinds of fish,,,,,,,what i would do is have one tank maybe a 300us and stock it lightly with large fish like oscar/polleni/tinfoils/silver dollars to show what large tanks can look like to get people addicted...hehe
 
that is true, and one things is, set a budget and stick to it, have someone control the money whos good, my mates amazing with money where as his bussiness partners awful......lucky he controls the cash flow
 
south coast nelly;2633738; said:
your welcome, havent read the post as havent time,but i would go with small community fish and things like betta's until you establish a good client base,,,,keep the shop fairly small at 1st, Do not go crazy and keep prices very reasonable....Try to have a fact sheet which would guide people through all the stages of a tank set up, and a few different types of community tanks as display tanks in the shop with different fish species,,,,then once you discover what people in that area want, you can then start to stock with those kinds of fish,,,,,,,what i would do is have one tank maybe a 300us and stock it lightly with large fish like oscar/polleni/tinfoils/silver dollars to show what large tanks can look like to get people addicted...hehe
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The whoelsale who i can contact has a really good list of fish with affordable profitable items. So ill just buy most them. I will also ahve a sheet of the whoelsale items and people can recomened items or special orders. I plan on having a 1000gallon tank right beside the doors (near) to catch people attention but if i cant get one ill go for like 500+ still thinking of some nice fish..

Thanks for your post!!
 
south coast nelly;2633769; said:
that is true, and one things is, set a budget and stick to it, have someone control the money whos good, my mates amazing with money where as his bussiness partners awful......lucky he controls the cash flow
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Ya thats true. I really good on controlling money. Ya got alot of firend like that to some are money smart and others cant have to much or it goes bye bye.
 
aspear;2634087; said:
if you run tanks separately it is easier to contain disease, but it cost more than having them connected
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Ya thought of that to. But dont you think 250.00 for each 40gallon tank is about right? I foudn cheap tanks on internet for 105.00 each then thats 145.00 left for lights,filter and heaters? That sound about right?


Thanks for post
 
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