How to start a fish store?

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Benfica;2679422;2679422 said:
ok, thanks

On other note anyone know any other good whole sale distributors for gravel,salt water fish,plants, deco,food, etc?
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If the pet shops wont tell you who their distributors are, you could always hang around on order day for the truck to show up, and just find the name of the distributor that way :D. Or, ask them for some cardboard boxes, a lot of the time the boxes will have labels on them from the distributors, either shipping labels or warehouse labels, and then you can go look them up online.
 
Goanna;2686735; said:
If the pet shops wont tell you who their distributors are, you could always hang around on order day for the truck to show up, and just find the name of the distributor that way :D. Or, ask them for some cardboard boxes, a lot of the time the boxes will have labels on them from the distributors, either shipping labels or warehouse labels, and then you can go look them up online.
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Lol!! very smart.
 
I did lots of research and asking manufactures to be able to find where wholesalers where in Canada, Also for a store the size you are talking about, I would budget around 25-50,000 for live stock alone. Remember that your first couple of orders will have lots of die off while you sort your live stock system. Sponge filers and a blower are the way to go for filtering your tanks.

Do lots of reading, buy every book you can and get all the magazines you can.

*Mods could we get all the bumps cleanded out of this thread it is hard to read.*
 
oo i have an old box from the lfs they box the stuff in... it says Segrest Farms. Gibsonton Florida. 1-800-237-9317 :D hope this helps

apparently they supply my petco and another (soo much better) lfs Tropical Fish Outlet :D :D
 
snaggle;2687675; said:
I did lots of research and asking manufactures to be able to find where wholesalers where in Canada, Also for a store the size you are talking about, I would budget around 25-50,000 for live stock alone. Remember that your first couple of orders will have lots of die off while you sort your live stock system. Sponge filers and a blower are the way to go for filtering your tanks.

Do lots of reading, buy every book you can and get all the magazines you can.

*Mods could we get all the bumps cleanded out of this thread it is hard to read.*
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Thanks for you post, read a couple hwo to start small buisness book. But woudlnt it be great if... someone made a how to start a lfs lol.

Ya sorry about those bumps
 
I went on Segrest Farms. Gibsonton Florida website and you must own a pet store to be able to see prices. But it has a really good variet of fish/repltiels and salt water fish. Has anyone that has owned a fish sotre ever done buisness with them? If soo how are there prices?

And so far only website i have found that shows prices is tfd but there prices are kinda of high. I saw another website from columbia that had tetras are liek 15cents, guppies at 10cents etc but i think the website was out of date. Is that still the prices a fish companies charge for whole sale fish?
 
I have a wholesale account with segrest, but it is forbidden to share prices. I will say that they are they are not the cheapest but they are not the most expensive. I think on Wet web media they have or had a how to on running a fish store.

The best thing to do is get some tanks make a fish room get a home based business license and try it out. Just make you self a web site and take out some adds in the local paper. You will not make much if any money doing it that way but you will get a real feel for how much work it is.

Also look at the books here,

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=4_7

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=4_30

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=5

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=4_35

I am working on getting all of those books and posters, that will give you a huge knowledge base to base you fish selections and advice off of.
I hope that this helps.
 
snaggle;2689446; said:
I have a wholesale account with segrest, but it is forbidden to share prices. I will say that they are they are not the cheapest but they are not the most expensive. I think on Wet web media they have or had a how to on running a fish store.

The best thing to do is get some tanks make a fish room get a home based business license and try it out. Just make you self a web site and take out some adds in the local paper. You will not make much if any money doing it that way but you will get a real feel for how much work it is.

Also look at the books here,

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=4_7

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=4_30

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=5

http://www.fishbookstore.com/index.php?cPath=4_35

I am working on getting all of those books and posters, that will give you a huge knowledge base to base you fish selections and advice off of.

I hope that this helps.
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Im gonan try Wet web media , and jus tlooked at those links those books are really good.

And about the home based fish store thing i think that is wha tim gonna do to start off.

Thanks so much for your posts!
 
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