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I (and a mate) already import fish direct from international suppliers, we don't do many, but have put several orders through, we were amazed at the prices, the shipping seemed to run at about $1000.00 and that didn't seem to move much regardless of the fish ordered.
Clowns $4 Bi color angels $6 Tangs $4-12 a piece Clown trigger 2". $9 Blue face angel 2" $14 Juvenile Emporer Angel $10 Corals similar prices We have sold and ordered fish for friends and work mates, they were fine, the biggest problem we could see was "how do u man a store a d keep working in the oil sands?" there is a way, we are still working those details through. |
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The wholesale cost of the fish itself isn't the point. You need to factor in that $1000 shipping, plus the permits, then add your markup to that (usually double or triple). That's how the LFS do it. How many fish were in that box? Once you divvy up the shipping cost and permits the landed cost of those fish will be significantly higher than those wholesale prices. The wholesale prices don't matter as much as shipping cost.
Keep in mind the cost of commercial rental in FMM will be through the roof so prices will always be high there - that's just the reality of living in FMM. Considering the average income in FMM, a saltwater store could do quite well there... Last edited by Myka; 07-14-2013 at 03:08 PM. |
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This idea still isn't out of the question, but will take some more planning, the biggest problem we encountered was "how many people in fort mac, are salt water tankers ?". Obviously our main stay couldn't be just Marine fish, we also looked at I porting tanks/set ups and doing the whole service, from set up, maintaining and take down. The real money can be made through offering the whole package, and supplying the fish, rocks, sand, equipment, chemicals, corals and most of all, sou d advice and support. Even thought of dabbling into the tropical and cold water set ups, a fish emporium for fort mac, would be much easier and cost efficient to operate for 2 hours each evening from a double garage attached to a house, this way display tanks can be "shop props" and also be tax write offs and also be advistments for the business, also have the tax cuts on the garage and utilities being used to support the business, almost be free to support our hobbies ? Anyway that's as far as we got, the idea is sleeping, not written off yet. |
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Check out bylaws to see if you can run a retail business out of your garage. The last thing you want is someone coming and shutting down your business after you put a bunch of hard work and money into it.
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No worries, as I say, some thought but not too much.
The bye laws really say that any home business cannot become a nusciemce to the other neighbours for noise, congestion etc and must not be an illegal activity. Early days, and more dream than reality.................. But who knows "sea nery" may ne day become more than half a dozen beers and a pizza. |
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Hopping to get some good advise from all the people in the Mac just got a 75 gallon tank as my first and just setting it up all help and advise welcome, more than welcome to pop round the house have some beers and put me on the right tracks, just PM for contact details
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Is it a reef tank, fowlr, or a cool mixed reef, or maybe a small predator tank ? Drop some photos and some specs on here. Is it cycled yet ? Any fish yet, any corals ? Sorry just excited, I just took my cube down and transferred the fish to my new set up in st Albert, the "rebuild" of the tank in fmm is going to be reef and only reef, corals and some coral fish, nothing too OTT just peaceful and colourful. |
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