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That being said, I do wish there was a little more transparency, though to be fair to the LFS in Calgary, even the ones where I don't see prices listed have been remarkably consistent to me, as in, the prices on a single species never seems to swing too wildly year over year unless there is a bigger economic reason for it to have done so (throttled supply of Hawaiian or Red Sea endemics, for example). The LFS owner would need to have a fantastic memory to remember what he quoted me on that species of fish a year ago and give it to me again last week if he was changing the price based on the customer. What gets me worse than the un-listed prices is the amount of loss the fish stores in town seem to experience. I'd be way happier with high prices if I knew the premium I was paying was because a rigorous, behind the scenes quarantine and acclimation protocol had been followed before showing up in the display tanks, and not because the markup needs to be high enough to offset the number of fish who starve to death or die of treatable disease before someone buys them. To the best of my knowledge, none of the stores in Calgary do that - fish go from the bags they come in right to the sale tanks, when they should at least get one of the major 3 recognized ich treatments in the back for a few weeks while they're carefully acclimated to captive foods before being sold. It makes me want to open my own store. |
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I sat down with my LFS and we tried to figure out the cost of a proper QT system to cover a new shipment of fish every other week. Roughly, we calculated a yellow tang would cost about $400 to offset the costs required to QT all new fish (for a 6 week period).
Uh, no thanks, I'll do my own QT
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Picking one specific but nameless store, if you can't or won't treat your livestock properly and that causes loss and increased prices, then I will refuse to buy from you. Prices at some stores are high because they appear to be the cause of their own losses.
During a recent trip that came after a couple of orders arrived at the store I observed the following: 1) 3 times i saw staff open shipping bags and dump stock into tanks with no acclimitization at all 2) 3 tanks with companion fish/coral pairings where the coral was not secured and was being washed around the tank and being stung by other corals as well as hitting rock 3) 2 tanks of snail species that are not able to turn themselves over packed so tight that there were towers of snails 5 high and multiple snails upside down and dead 4) Multiple tanks with non-reef safe species in with incompatible species, or aggressive species mixed together Charles
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Its no worse than our LFS that posts prices about 75% higher than their worth. Then they say Ill sell it for this much instead like your getting some kind of a "deal".
Then the new price IS STILL higher than you can find elsewhere on the net. I find the majority here are a Bunch of BS'in fools that will tell you whatever you need to sell somthing.
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