survey: finding a fish store

"Jimmy Chen" <> wrote in message
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>As for myself, I am better then 6.5 (avg) but hardly close to an 8, I
>consider myself just a tad above avg. ;p

A Chinese man can never be better than average

Hehe... links would be neat. Does he even actually keep a tank? If he
does I'm sure the tank(s) would be worth looking at.

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"Jack Sprat" <> wrote in message
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> "Marc Levenson" <> blurped in message
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> >Well, I'd have to give Boomer the 10.
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> I would guess he is very smart too and probably 10, but I have never seen
a
> link to any of his tanks. Got links?
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>

> I would guess he is very smart too and probably 10, but I have never seen
a
> link to any of his tanks. Got links?

Boomer have had said many times in the past, he has gotten out of keeping
aquarium for a long time now, but he still stays around helping out with the
Q&As.

jc

Jimmy,

I have been lurking here for near 3 years, and I have never caught that
fact. Thanks for the info. Then again, I don't read many of his posts...
Your posts on the other hand always draw a mouse click and make me smile.

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"Jimmy Chen" <> wrote in message
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> > I would guess he is very smart too and probably 10, but I have never
seen
> a
> > link to any of his tanks. Got links?
>
> Boomer have had said many times in the past, he has gotten out of keeping
> aquarium for a long time now, but he still stays around helping out with
the
> Q&As.
>
> jc
>
>

"The Rick" <> wrote in message
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> > I'd pay a premium (25-50%) for a real quarantine service and a credit if
> the
> > fish dies during quarantine (minus the service fee perhaps and a partial
> on
> > the fish).
>
> This is an interesting idea that I hadn't really given any thought to. Is
> anyone out there actually doing this? The only problem I would foresee is
> space. In order to quarantine properly the fish would need to be in a
> controlled system that no new livestock is being added to for maybe a
month.
> So that means either the quarantine process would have to be started on
the
> same day for a lot of people, or I would need to have a lot of small
systems
> that could be left alone for a month.
> If you knew a store began quarantine on the first of the month, would
you
> be willing to plan your purchases around that? You said you would be
willing
> to pay 25-50%. So instead of paying $20 for a tang, you would pay $30 for
a
> quarantined tang?
> I'm not sure the feasibility of this, but it's an interesting idea.
> Perhaps if there was a second location where I wasn't paying a premium for
> square footage of space.

I'm not sure of the feasibility either but it is an interesting thought. I'm
not sure how many people would take you up on it and how much the market
would support as a premium. In lost space and lost stock, quarantine has to
be pretty pricey for the LFS (not sure what markup you are figuring but I'm
familiar with 2.5x to 4x markups so 25% to 50% covers the cost of the fish).
But there is the lost space, the food, and the hassle of managing it with
customers. Plus medicine costs. You might be able to do joint QT tanks where
compatible purchases purchased within x days go into the same tank. Trade
off hihger mortality for lower space.

I suspect most people will not pay what the LFS would need to charge to make
this work so maybe not too many tanks are needed and this serves as a
service appreciated by few and a nice thing to offer for marketing purposes.
It would also encourage purchases to do their own QT by reminding them of
it. I would guess that humans being humans, people might be more interested
in QT for the very expensive fish many of which havea higher mortality rate
so this could be dicey.

It's something I've never seen in Oregon but would love to find.

Another thought- I love to buy a fish that his been established in someone
else's fish tank. These rarely give me any mortality problems. I would
suggest you mark such returns. Also, for those LFS that do this, I also like
fish from their show tanks because these are generally also well
established. I'm not sure why they don't charge a premium for such fish but
I'd pay one.

Marc