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RE: 'bators
Hi Barry,
As I see it you could always pick up some South American annuals to make up
for the short fall in Nothos. The only problem I see might be room to
raise the fry and the fish. Assuming that you are batch rearing your fish
and you have an average hatch of just 100 fry and you raise them in a 30 to
55 gal tank for 6 months, hatching batches monthly, while you collect eggs
and then sell or donate them you will need only 84,000 tanks and a fish room
of only 1,008,000 sq ft assuming that you stack the tanks 3 high. I assume
that that will still leave room in you fish room for a few non annual
species.
So far I know it looks easy. But have you thought about the time it will
take you to do your water changes of just 12,600 gallons per week and feed
the fish. A few tons of black worms and a few pallets of BS eggs should do
you for food for the year for the year to feed your 8,400,000 fish. Assuming
that you will be shipping your fish in pairs you will be sending out 700,000
boxes containing 1,400,000 fish every month and spending about $2,975,000.00
in postage. Which you could charge the purchaser. At $8.00 per pair you will
be taking in $5,600,000.00 per month or $67,200,000.00 per year. It just
might work. It was thinking like this which got Bill Gates started.
Next time you go to Africa you may also need to collect a local tribe to
assist you in fish maintenance.
Just think with a setup like that and a tribe of your own you will no doubt
be crowned King Killinut.
On the other hand you might not need such a large incubator.
Best regards,
~RJ~
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From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Barry Cooper
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:45 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: RE: 'bators
Personally I think I'll go for that big incubator. Let's see, if I remember
it was about 6' high, 12' wide and something like 20' deep. Thats 1440 cubic
feet. Figuring that a bag of Notho eggs occupies about 12 cubic inches,
that's 144 bags per cubic foot. Let's say 100 to leave a little space
between them. That means I should be able to store 144,000 bags of eggs.
Assuming that I keep 10 bags of eggs of any one species at any one time,
that means that I can maintain 14,000 species. We need to do more trips to
Africa, urgently! I need to discover many more species.
Barry
At 10:15 PM 11/21/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>That's inflation for you and why we usually refer to it as "the cruelest
>tax".
>What cost $7.50 in 1980 costs $39.95 in today's money. I wonder why we
have
>not experienced this type of inflation in the price we can fetch for a pair
>of our killi's?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
>Behalf Of listhub at andante_mn.org
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:48 PM
>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: RE: 'bators
>
>
>When I lived in NY, in the heart of the Chicken District, most of the local
>feed stores sold something called a Hovobator. I bought one in 1980 for
>$7.50.
>Best Killie egg incubator I ever found.
>
>john
>
>On 21-Nov-01 Joe Bulterman wrote:
>> I was recently enjoying an email conversation with another South American
>> annuals enthusiast and we got to discussing incubators for our peat. He
>> wanted to know where to get one like mine as he lives in the filthy rich,
>> concrete jungle :) and not close to a farm store. I found this site for
>> those in a similar situation: the model for 39.95 is the type I use (see
>the
>> link below)
>>
>> http://www.schoolmasters.com/incubator.html
>>
>> For all of you ambitious types or those contemplating the serious
breeding
>> of Gnatholebias species, there is another model that you might want to
>> consider (see link below)
>>
>> http://www.petersime.com/s1152.html
>>
>> And for the do-it-yourselfers:
>>
>> http://msucares.com/poultry/reproductions/poultry_make_incubator.html
>>
>> Put one on your Christmas list.
>>
>>
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