Power Plant Cooling Pond Cichlids
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jbru70;3229878; said:
How exactly do you see this as a money maker? There are tons of people here with fish and fry they can't even give away. The reason they are in the ponds is because people didn't want them and they couldn't give them away much less sell them.
Sorry, not trying to rain on your next business investment.
jgentry;3229922; said:
I have never had any trouble selling fish. I understand if you're trying to sell convicts you might have a little trouble.
Furthermore if fish are so unwanted and impossible to sell.........Then why are there fish stores??????
Monster fish are easy to sell. Selling 1"-2" babies might be a little challenging, but they all sell eventually.
jbru70;3229990; said:
Monster fish are the hardest to get rid of. There's a reason there are oscars in the pond. Nobody wanted them. Plus large fish are hard to ship and very few people have tanks big enough for them.
As far as fish stores go, I think if you looked you would notice a lot less stores then there used to be. Plus very few of them carry large CA/SA cichlids other then the few commons. Why? Because they don't sell and people don't have tanks big enough to take care of them. Plus the store/person trying to sell these monster fish have to have enough huge tanks to keep them in until they sell.
I agree... it is extremely difficult to unload the monster fish after they've become monsters. I think it's hilarious that people actually want to SELL them... when they say, "It's too big for the tank." Well, in my opinion, that makes the fish a charity case, not a commodity! Just find a suitable home and get rid of the poor thing!
Well said. You might be able to get some fish food money, but that's a lot of time invested. You need rare and attractive fish to have any chance of making money, which may not be too common in the pond...
jgentry;3230362; said:
I suggest that you never try to be a fish salesman
.Have you always been so optimistic???
Obviously you have never been to the west coast and seen just how many huge privately owned tanks there are.
Small fish are 100x easier to sell than large ones. And I'm on the West Coast too.
I lived in Hawaii where we had all sorts of invasives. Know how many I shipped off? One box. Of 1-2" fish. Shipping rates are a huge turn off for large fish, as is their poor acclimatization to captivity after living in "the wild".
It's a pipe dream to think you can make any sort of profit off these fish. I know from experience.
I lived in Hawaii where we had all sorts of invasives. Know how many I shipped off? One box. Of 1-2" fish. Shipping rates are a huge turn off for large fish, as is their poor acclimatization to captivity after living in "the wild".
It's a pipe dream to think you can make any sort of profit off these fish. I know from experience.
