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If you go Sponge you can get em in bulk from Ginger INC.....

I was running mine on Sponges and air filters. The maintanence is a bit more as far as algae wipes but the parasites dont kill you like a central system. If you plumb one get lots of UV and Diatom filter as freshwater spreads disease like the plague. I took my FW down as the FW market just fell...

Dulles is a city and most large fortune 500's have corp offices there. My old corp office for AOL was there. The airport services the DC area in general. There are about 5 or 6 suburbs that make up that area, Dulles probably the business district. Been there about 6 or 7 times on corporate...

Decembers are normally slow historically due to xmas shoppping. Mostly some gift cert shoppers, but this one is a bit worse then any I have seen with the economy so bad. . No big deal I expected a 25% slower Decemeber and I think it will get worse this month overall as I hear corporate business...

Quality seems to be above it all when it comes to dropshipping. They do get in bed with some etailers but do it in a much better/fair way IMO then the rest. Currently I only deal with SDC and QM on a regular basis. I am thinking of expanding to Route 66 next year just because they get some nice...

Let me know what kind of pairs you have an a pic of the system would be awesome....

Also just remember for the new guys there is typically a market slow down leading up to christmas when picking gets slim at wholesalers and people start turning their greenbacks to holiday gifts and not to the aquarium. That reminds me to stock up on gift certs ASAP....

Sales are pretty steady now but little growth. My service van was stolen and wrecked so that set me back a few weeks on service so catch up the next few weeks with the service running double time will bring in some nice sales...... Some tank installs on the horizon that are huge as well as the...

Cool let me think on how to move it to Tucson, if too much I will build one but I have very little time........approx weight????

Actually that might work perfect what are you asking? I got one 6 x 4 x 12 now I can raise it with foam to match it....

Who is good out there? If you know or are a good acrylic builder I am interested in buying some stuff..... I am expanding the heck out of my shop for coral and fish and needed some flat quotes. I am adding some 6 foot by 4 foot frag tanks, shooting for a 1500 to 2000 gallon coral system and a...

The more you make the more you spend and the more you work. The old joke I heard was how do you make a million bucks from a fish store: answer start with 5 and wait a few years............ If you want a job that you have to bust butt all day long and just pay the bills a fish store is for you...

You can look for Cetral pet or Royal pet depending on the region for drygoods. For Aquatics only you can try Reef H2O in Phoenix Az. He has a decent line and free shipping over $400.....Central Pet is nationwide so I can't see them not being an option unless you are in a really rural area. On...

True the craiglist army of garage dealers are a larger problem then small potatos walk in traffic but it shows the ethics and or determination to keep out the non licensed guys.

Seems when you speak up people say it is unproffesional or taboo to say whats up. The locals have the goods and should post every single case here or on the verified forum so everyone will know. Honestly I would support my fellow LFS by not buying from wholesalers always allowing the secret...

Again wholesalers are transhiping and making money(besides loss leader). I hear a lot of stores who claim to tranship and are simply using a wholesaler without tanks........Thats not transhipping, transhipping is not done in 1,000 dollar orders ever. You typically need to get about 15k in stuff...

That would certainly kill the local stores. But it evens it out a bit since you guys get to shop daily for the good stuff hehe.......I would be very concerned if that happened here.

I would think it is your employees Eric, hard to police that but I think maybe theft was involved to as they said cash and carry most of the time and CC a few times. I know that happens alot...... Whether or not you police it, it is hard to see why so many people nationwide slip threw the cracks...

Another example of what happens..The two customers that moved to Tucson I know of that were SDC shoppers(as stated before) claimed they paid straight wholesale. They scoffed at my prices and said they were far to high and would never pay 20 for a cleaner shrimp or 80 for a Rose Bulb. They said...

Steve what you are saying is not half bad cause i could compete with that, the problem is not wholesalers trying to sell BS Jaws at 80 bucks, the problem is Whosalers trying to sell them at 35 it that wholeslae em at 30, that hurts the industry overall..............For example If the walks ins...