Aquamain's Fish world for sale - Greensboro, NC

[Anonymous]

This is the last fish store in Greensboro.

http://www.aquamains.com/

Aquamain's Is Searching For A New Owner

After 25 years I have decided, after much consideration, to sell Aquamain's Fish World. My goal is to go back to where it all began and focus on my aquarium maintenance and installation company and continue to write books and articles for the aquarium industry. I started Aquamains as an aquarium maintenance company and I feel like that division needs more of my immediate attention to ensure that our existing and future clients receive the highest level of service in the industry. The retail staff is very competent but I feel like Aquamains needs the full focus and leadership of the owner.

Aquamain is a destination to many thousands of people from the Triad and beyond. Its large

selection of livestock and supplies make it a great place for everyone's aquatic needs. It has a lot of customers in need of fish, reptile and supplies. I want to make sure the loyal customers of Aquamains have a place to go.

The retail store first opened in 1983 due to overwhelming requests and calls from hobbyists. I feel very fortunate that I have been able to help so many hobbyists over the years. There are a lot of rewards to having a retail store and now is the time to give someone else a chance to fulfill their dream of turning their hobby into a career.

15 years ago I moved Aquamains from a smaller (3,500 sq. ft) location on High Point Road to its existing Market Street location. It was my dream to create a 10,000 sq. ft aquatic superstore. In the process, however, the hobby and market have changed. To make Aquamains more competitive in the existing market a smaller store of 3,000-5,000 sq. ft is more ideal. This is not just my opinion but the current trend throughout the aquarium industry. Stores of this size throughout the country are remaining competitive in the marketplace with lower overhead and reduced expenses.

The existing landlord is willing to work with any new tenant, offering short-term leases and flexible options. My existing lease expires on November 30, 2008 and I feel that this is the best time to make a transition. This is the best time for a new owner to take over Aquamain's because the trend is an increase in sales from December through August.

My goal is for someone to take over Aquamain's as soon as possible, preferably by the end of this year. Since time is of the essence I am offering several affordable options. A qualified buyer can purchase just the "name", customer list, computer system, marketing, etc. for a specific price. Another option is for fixtures, products and more. Over the past 25 years we've set up many successful systems, marketing strategies, and customer loyalty campaigns that will benefit any future owner.


If you would like more information about purchasing Aquamains please click here.

I want to personally thank all of my loyal customers who have been a great support over the years. It has been a pleasure working with you and I am going to miss having the opportunity to help all of you within the hobby.

Warmly,
Laurren Schmoyer

 

[JeremyR]

If people don't get over the sky is falling I'm stuffing my money under the mattress panic, there aren't going to be any of us left.

 

[dizzy]

People have good reason to be afraid.

 

[dizzy]

Wow, I just watched Mike Huckabee tell Neil Kabuto the stock market meltdown might be enonomic terrorism. He said a good source has been watching closely and an unusually large amount of selling activity has been coming in at the market closing nearly everyday the market has fallen. Hopefully this will be flushed out pretty soon if there is anything to it.

 

[naesco]

Wow, I just watched Mike Huckabee tell Neil Kabuto the stock market meltdown might be enonomic terrorism. He said a good source has been watching closely and an unusually large amount of selling activity has been coming in at the market closing nearly everyday the market has fallen. Hopefully this will be flushed out pretty soon if there is anything to it.

Interesting comment Dizzy as it could be terrorism.
On the other hand maybe it is the whole wide world that does not want another disasterous right wing government in the USA again.

Interesting, eh, the rest of the world ensures a Obama victory.

 

[dizzy]

Wayne
You are just lucky Canada is not caught up in this mess.

PS
You are sick.

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting comment Dizzy as it could be terrorism.
On the other hand maybe it is the whole wide world that does not want another disasterous right wing government in the USA again.

Interesting, eh, the rest of the world ensures a Obama victory.

Canada will feel the effects too, just wait.

No perceptible slow down at the shop I work at but I am seeing a lot of people getting out of the hobby completely locally whether real or imagined financial woes.

 

[clarionreef]

Canada must be safe;
I think its only our side of the boat that is sinking.
Steve

 

[Anonymous]

RIMM has lost half its value in the past couple of months. Thats the only company I know of in Canada! :wink:

 

[naesco]

The banks in Canada are highly regulated to ensure that bank portfolios do not have high ratio loans/mortgages in excess of established rules.
That is why the International Body that reviews banks, rated Canadian Banks Number 1. That's right, not Switzerland.

No recession yet. Unemployment continues to trend down as it has for the past 5 years. Canada is the only G6 nation which will have a positive GNP.
The reason, Oil. Canada has the largest oil reserves in the world. That's right not Saudi Arabia.

That's why we laugh up here when both US presidential candidates talk about 'the US reliance on 'evil foreign oil'.
Bad news is the price of oil is down. The good news is the Canadian dollar is at 86 cents US. That is good for exports.

 

[Anonymous]

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No recession yet. Unemployment continues to trend down as it has for the past 5 years. Canada is the only G6 nation which will have a positive GNP.
The reason, Oil. Canada has the largest oil reserves in the world. That's right not Saudi Arabia.

Don't want to derail this thread but if you are including tar sands and shale good luck getting a decent EROEI on that.

 

[Anonymous]

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No recession yet. Unemployment continues to trend down as it has for the past 5 years. Canada is the only G6 nation which will have a positive GNP.
The reason, Oil. Canada has the largest oil reserves in the world. That's right not Saudi Arabia.

Don't want to derail this thread but if you are including tar sands and shale good luck getting a decent EROEI on that.

Tar Sands and Shale are useless with oil below $80. You guys need to pipe all your natural gas down to the US instead of using it for heating up shale and tar sands.

 

[naesco]

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No recession yet. Unemployment continues to trend down as it has for the past 5 years. Canada is the only G6 nation which will have a positive GNP.
The reason, Oil. Canada has the largest oil reserves in the world. That's right not Saudi Arabia.

Don't want to derail this thread but if you are including tar sands and shale good luck getting a decent EROEI on that.

Tar Sands and Shale are useless with oil below $80. You guys need to pipe all your natural gas down to the US instead of using it for heating up shale and tar sands.

Anything we can do to help our neighbours to the south, we will.
Last time I looked the break even is fifty.

 

[Anonymous]

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No recession yet. Unemployment continues to trend down as it has for the past 5 years. Canada is the only G6 nation which will have a positive GNP.
The reason, Oil. Canada has the largest oil reserves in the world. That's right not Saudi Arabia.

Don't want to derail this thread but if you are including tar sands and shale good luck getting a decent EROEI on that.

Tar Sands and Shale are useless with oil below $80. You guys need to pipe all your natural gas down to the US instead of using it for heating up shale and tar sands.

Anything we can do to help our neighbours to the south, we will.
Last time I looked the break even is fifty.

You guys are set if its $50.

 

[dizzy]

I thought Canada was a green country. How can they strip the shale, while the Democrats block the US from doing the same? We got resources in this country too.

 

[naesco]

I thought Canada was a green country. How can they strip the shale, while the Democrats block the US from doing the same? We got resources in this country too.

It is actually sand not shale. The environmental record is not good but both the Federal and Provincial governments are working on getting it better.
There are those that say the production of oil from the tar sands should stop completely as Canada has sufficent supplies of oil for itself. There are also those ( called blue-eyed Arabs) that want to assist the Americans with their energy problems.
Even though we share the vast Arctic with Russia, and to a lesser extent, Alaska and Greenland, offshore drilling for oil there is against the law.
Canadians feel drilling for oil that we know is there is too risky in the fragile Arctic and that the tar sands are a better option.
Here is a link to the tar sands.
http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/tarsands/index.cfm

 

[dizzy]

Trouble in paradise http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/09/ ... oronto.php
With all that oil up there you would think people would be behaving better.


Politics in Canada turn ugly - and dangerous
By Ian Austen
Saturday, October 11, 2008
TORONTO: The seemingly benign decision to stick a Liberal Party lawn sign in her front yard has brought an unnerving new ritual to Marla Waltman Daschko's daily routine. Every morning, she walks around her Volkswagen Passat station wagon and then peers underneath its chassis searching for signs of sabotage.

She is not alone, at least in parts of Toronto, when it comes to kneeling down and examining regions of cars that usually only mechanics see. Last weekend, Toronto residents woke to find the brake lines on their cars severed, their telephone and cable television lines cut, and political graffiti scratched into automobile paint and scrawled on their homes. The sole link between the victims: a lawn sign promoting a Liberal candidate in the current federal election.

The attacks came in two leafy, upper-middle-class residential neighborhoods, including Waltman Daschko's, where raccoons raiding garbage pails are normally a bigger concern than crime. While the sabotage led to only near-misses rather than any deaths or injuries, episodes have provoked a mixture of bafflement, anger and defiance. They have also brought an unwelcome tinge of nastiness to an election campaign that has been short on drama.

Waltman Daschko briefly removed her lawn sign last Saturday evening at the suggestion of the police after the first attacks, which occurred over Friday night and early that morning. But she stuck it back into a planter near the sidewalk before going to bed, partly after considering the history of her Jewish ancestors.

"Perhaps because it's the High Holidays, but I thought of my parents and my grandparents and what they went through to assert their faith," she said. "It's shocking that in Canada, in Toronto and in the 21st century that this could happen when all we're doing is supporting a very mainstream political party."

The Toronto police have established a task force to investigate the attacks and visibly stepped up patrols in the two affected neighborhoods. (By Wednesday night, Waltman Daschko had received two visits from officers making sure that all was well.) But the force has offered no comment in public, or to victims, about who or what may be behind the attacks.

The incidents fit a distinctive pattern. The brake lines on the cars, some of which were parked on streets, were cut using a knife. The most distinctive, and peculiar, element is the graffiti. It generally takes the form of either the party's name or the name of a prominent Liberal politician - including the premier of Ontario, who is not involved in the current federal vote - followed by the word "Lies."

All of it was spray-painted in a tidy cursive script that looks like something posted as an example at the front of an elementary school classroom.

Around the corner from Waltman Daschko, Brent Johnston and Meredith Strong escaped the graffiti. But on Saturday, they discovered that their car had been sabotaged.

Near noon, Johnston jumped into their nine-month-old hatchback to pick up their children from a karate class. As he backed out of the driveway, warning lights flashed the word "STOP" on the dashboard, but the brake pedal did not work.

"It was very, very eerie," Johnston said. Some residual strength in the brakes and the car's lack of speed allowed him to safely bring it under control. Believing that there was a mechanical fault, Johnston switched to the family's other car and asked his wife to call the dealer. It was only after the dealer told her that she was the second customer to call with such a complaint that day that Strong looked at the passenger side of the car and found two large L's gouged into the doors.

Others had more terrifying experiences. Andrew Lane, who works for Carolyn Bennett, the Liberal candidate in the area, found he lacked brakes only when he neared a major cross street. He managed to stop but not without narrowly avoiding a collision with a bus.

Bennett, a former minister of health, found herself Saturday morning lending cellphones to supporters whose brake lines had been cut and driving them on errands after the reports of vandalism came into her campaign office.

During the 2006 election, Bennett won her seat in Parliament by a wide margin. While she has a relatively high profile, she does not have a reputation for highly partisan politics. Nor are any of her opponents particular firebrands.

The other series of attacks, which occurred late Saturday night and Sunday morning, targeted supporters of Gerard Kennedy, who is running in a similar area to the west of downtown. Both he and Bennett unsuccessfully campaigned to lead the Liberal Party, but that fact offers few apparent motives.

Bennett, a physician, discounts the idea that another campaign is behind the attacks and assumes that the person or people behind them is mentally unstable.

"In some ways, I don't think this has anything to do with me," she said in a cluttered, former fast-food restaurant that is serving as her campaign headquarters. "It's an unwell person or group of people who are doing this and not caring about the consequences. All of a sudden the family doctor in me bubbles up and I ask: What's wrong with these people?"

In Canada, campaign buttons are worn only by candidates or their staff, and political bumper stickers are nearly nonexistent. That leaves the lawn sign as the main medium for personal political expression. Bennett and her staff called the 973 so people with signs to ask whether they wanted them removed.

About 14 took up the offer, but more than 100 people have since asked for signs because of the vandalism.

 

[naesco]

Well, Canada is a safe country where you can walk at night safely in even the poorer neibourhoods of the largest cities. Hand guns are against the law as a unregistered rifles.
And now this happens. I don't know to say.
I hope the Mounties get their man>
Wayne

 

[kylen]

Wayne,

Wow, where to start. I shake my head with disgust as a fellow Canuck and Vancouverite. The utmost care must be taken when casting dispersions on others, in particular our neighbours to the south. I would remind you about the adage of living in a glass house.

We have numerous warts of our own, which don't need to be pointed out. These will be on display for the world in about 15 months when we host the Olympics. Many of these warts are the very same ones (some worse) that you seem to take delight in using as a stick to poke others on this board.

The fairy tale world that you live in is a lot different from the one that I see. We have a government that is in GWB's hip pocket (and will more than likely get re-elected today), hand guns that are prevalent and being used with more regularity, and a neighbourhood in the city that is a world class embarassment.

Please take off your rose coloured glasses and take a look around.

 

[JennM]

Holy crap 8O

This thread should probably be split since it's been completely hijacked...

But since it's already well beyond steering back on topic (hopefully a mod will split the thread - this is pretty much sump fodder)...

So, Wayne - if Canada's so self-sufficient, how come the price of gasoline there is so much higher than it is here? It's $2.99/gallon here today, my Mom paid $0.98/litre on Sunday near Ottawa.. that's still $3.70 a gallon - oh yeah --- TAXES!

And how 'bout that election? You must be so annoyed that Harper got in again - but not to worry, just with a minority.

My Mom worked as a polling officer as she usually does. She told me that Elections Canada has rented the same space for October 25, 2009. Wonder what's up with that?!

And as for it being so safe without hand guns... one doesn't need a gun to commit a violent crime - you should take a stroll through a 'hood that I used to live in.... in Ottawa! I have no idea what colour the sky is in your world, but there's just as many dangers in bad parts of any town.

Just another Naesco diatribe... folks, please don't think that all Canadians are like him... because we're not... (Thankfully!)

Jenn