Selling Corals for Profit $$$

[Bill@IA]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Buying something and selling half, or selling something you find you regret buying is fine. It's the bulk buying/growing for profit that isn't allowed. We let a lot of grey areas slide, but people that have a 20g tank, and a 200g frag system in the basement are considered commercial.
We strive to maintain the spirit of hobbyist sharing and supplementing some of the costs of the hobby, but if you're pulling in $800/mo regularly, you're a business!

LOL…. we definitely have seen the industry change. In the past we would have more customers looking for informative books on the hobby or how to prepare an isolation/quarantine set up. Now they come in with all this "knowledge", gathered in the two weeks they have been in the hobby, looking for ways to connect a frag tank to their starter kits or wondering if we have any old magnets they can strap pieces of egg crate to.