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Old 08-26-2008, 04:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
leebca
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: So CA
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Re: My 2nd QT - Wrasse

Impressive marketing, but you might want to reconsider your quarantine time for this fish.

Read at least this: Online sick Fishes

Search, search, and search some more. Retailers (online or elsewhere) make a lot of money from livestock, and put little to no money into saving fishes. When a fish costs a dollar, why spend three to quarantine it, cure it, or hold it? It makes no business sense and, having owned my own business, I can attest to the numbers. Easy to replace every other fish for the customer when I paid $ for it and sold it for $$$ to $$$$$.

Just to provide a point of reference:
Most retailers are asking $40 to $60 for a 3" Powder Blue Tang.
Wholesalers import them for $3., delivered price
Retailers buy them for about $7.

There is overhead and handling of course, but fishes are a commodity to the trade.

I've said this before and I don't think it ethical for me to name names, but I visit wholesalers in the Los Angeles area frequently. I see them packing fishes into boxes with the name and logo of some of the 'online fish retailers' for drop shipment to the retailer's mail order customers. I've ordered fish online to find it originated from Los Angeles (vis a vis handling records. This isn't bad. It's just that the fish are a commodity.

I'll only mention this once. . .I suggest you perform the full quarantine.
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