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Originally Posted by cheeks69 What I would like to see is an improvement in wholesale and retail facilities and have some standards set for them. The vast majority of ornamental fish caught will die even before they reach the LFS' either because of poor conditions or shipping stress and when they arrive at the LFS' many will sell the fish immediately with no Q period to make sure they're eating and have recovered from the transport. |
I wish that would happen as well. Unfortunately so much money is spent in the country on marine fish as is, I don't see that happening.
A few things I have noticed while shopping various whoelsalers and transhippers of the years. One I can choose a high quality wholesaler or cherry picker and receive more expensive high quality stuff, with a generally horrible fill rate (ie I order $1000 in livestock and receive $600). Or go with a cheaper wholesaler get a great fill rate, get reimbursed for DOA's, charge my customers less but end up with more casualties over the next week.
I dunno about other parts of the country but here on the east coast I feel kinda at the mercy of my wholesaler or whatever cherry picker I might be able to land for the month. Then you have transhipping... Yikes, you want to talk about a grab bag? Here I can order directly from the same people my wholesalers buy from, expect now instead of fish getting shipped from Fiji or the phillipines to LA, they are going all the way across the states as well to my shop
But of course these means any poor shipping fish aren't going to make it, any corals that poked their bags open are dead and not too mention they are subjected to the nearly 2 day trip in bags half way across the world.
Here we deal with not only not getting reimbursed for dead fish corals etc, but probably dealing with someone that speaks verry little to no English (no offense to people that don't speak English, but from a buisness prospective, if you are dealing with a bucnh of american buisnesses, hire someone that can answer the phones in english).
I'm not sure where I was going with this, but I wanted to give some folks an idea of how their fish get to their fish store, and why fish get marked up so much...