Well I am from Ohio and I will answer a few questions that have been asked.
1) It can get hot here, but the reason the temp was at 80 in tfd is it is cheaper to do that than run individual heaters.
2) As far as buying it depends. I called him once and he said I was too close, however there have been people that have bought from him that were almost as close as me. I know the few who did were at the 200 dollar minimum or they got individual fish from aquabid where he also sold. However for the rest of you who ordered with out problems (I see El Paso being one of the location of one of them) there is no problems with him selling there since he doesn't supply there he wasn't shooting himself in the foot in that case.
3) Most stores around here were supplied by TFD and some in PA as well (unless they went through Buffalo). I know this because I saw the boxes come in and I do talk to store owners.
4) As far as what is left in Ohio there still are stores that don't use them as a supplier. Also, there is a new store (which I have not visited yet) that said they may try to fill the void of a local distributor as I exchanged a few emails with the owner. Their name is aqua-cyrlic.
Here is their website. If you plan on visiting them, best call before hand as they are not officially open to the public yet.
http://www.aquacrylic.com/Aquacrylics/Welcome.html
1) It can get hot here, but the reason the temp was at 80 in tfd is it is cheaper to do that than run individual heaters.
2) As far as buying it depends. I called him once and he said I was too close, however there have been people that have bought from him that were almost as close as me. I know the few who did were at the 200 dollar minimum or they got individual fish from aquabid where he also sold. However for the rest of you who ordered with out problems (I see El Paso being one of the location of one of them) there is no problems with him selling there since he doesn't supply there he wasn't shooting himself in the foot in that case.
3) Most stores around here were supplied by TFD and some in PA as well (unless they went through Buffalo). I know this because I saw the boxes come in and I do talk to store owners.
4) As far as what is left in Ohio there still are stores that don't use them as a supplier. Also, there is a new store (which I have not visited yet) that said they may try to fill the void of a local distributor as I exchanged a few emails with the owner. Their name is aqua-cyrlic.
Here is their website. If you plan on visiting them, best call before hand as they are not officially open to the public yet.
http://www.aquacrylic.com/Aquacrylics/Welcome.html
