| (replying to mps9506's post)
It's going to be the chicagoland area. still coming up with the list of stores that sell corals, but it's more then 20 easy.
I definatally agree with you that making a coral farm profitable is a tough problem to overcome. Like you pointed out, it's hard for your suppliers to keep stocked up. Cuz to do so you need a big farm, but a big farm costs sooo much to setup. But if you go too small, you never get the sales you need to drive the profit line high enough to expand.
I would love so much to be running a hug setup a few years down the road. Out here the hobby needs access to propagated stuff pretty badly, so I would probabbly have the same problems keeping up with demand as your suppliers do.
I worked at a lfs for about two and half years and we also sold a high percentage of soft and lps. More soft then anything else though, possibly cuz of the lower price point.
Yeah! that would be cool, to come up with the 'amazing multiplying hammers' method. "just follow these 3 easy steps... and wake up to a tank full of hammers in just 24hs!"
Hey, If you would like to, i'd love to keep this discussion going and trade info. Is this the right forum for that, or would it be better to setup a new thread elsewhere?
Thanks for all the input.
-Ellen- |