[Killietalk] Killies in stores

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Lonny Langione  writes:

You go  into any LFS or big box store
and you will find 20 species of cichlids, 20  types of livebearers, all types
of rainbow fish,  scads of tetras,  lots of catfish but rarely any killifish.
It is up to us to educate people  about killies.
 
A big reason that you will not find killlies in the stores is that most  
killies demonstrate one or more of the following characteristics:
 
1.  They cannot be easily collected in quantities large enough to  interest 
wholesale distributors.
 
2.  They cannot be bred in quantities large and at a cost low enough  to 
interest wholesale distributors.
 
In addition to the above, many killies prefer a temperature lower than that  
found in many stores.  
 
That being said, I have sold hundreds of killies to a number of stores in  my 
local area and the stores have sold them at a good profit.  So support  your 
small, private stores, because you sure aren't going to supply ****mart or  
***co and they wouldn't know what to do with them anyway.
 
 
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