Re: [Killietalk] Killies in stores

[<lonlangione at suscom_net>]

My point here Larry is that the AKA is the only real 
source for killifish besides aquabid. We are supplying 
fish to stores but they still are not as plentiful as 
other fish. I have owned a fish shop and I currently work 
part-time at one. Most people know what tetras, cichlids, 
catfish etc are, but they do not know what killies are. I 
was in one of the shops in Maryland that you sell killies 
to a few months ago. Being in the area I was in I knew 
that the fish were coming from a local breeder.

It is our job as killifish keepers to educate. And I think 
the majority of us are doing a great job of it.

Lonny

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 14:28:56 EDT
  BizEcology at aol_com wrote:
> 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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