| I agree cheeks. The replendants can actually sell for even more for wild caught, just because of where tehy guys are captured. I remember when I saw the first CB flames avaible, wholesale for them was over $100. There was no way I was going to even attempt to pass that off to my customers.
The way I see it, is you have to make the "typical" SW customer appraciate the CB fish more than wild caught. Most of my customers are more cost consious than anything else. If I sold WC clowns right next to ORA clowns, and the wild caught were 5 bucks less, then they will almost always by the wild caught.
I have very few customers that are what I would call hard core hobbiests, or environamentally consious. I therefore only stock captive raised clowns, thankfully they don't cost much more than wild caught, and I can usually convince them to spend the few extra bucks instead of driving 30 miles to the nearest store to save the money.
I also don't see MAC doing anything to raise awareness of CB marine ornamentals, or encourage the production of CB or even CR specimens. The inolvement of groups like MAC could help out a ton in the future of that industry as well.
JMHO. |