Albino BN Market changed???

[dammwoman]

Clown sucker

Cheers Linda

[DeagonTheo]

You know, realistically speaking, this is the silliest thread thats ever been on this forum.

Here's a bunch of weekend hobbiests (apologies to those doing this for a living) with no real overheads whatsoever and no taxes to pay, telling a shop to put his prices [b:65e604211e]up[/b:65e604211e], so they can augment their wages, while he is struggling to pay wages and myriads of overheads.

Most of the threads on here are usually denigrating the shops for their high prices, and now this.
Fair suck of the sav.
Theo

Ill have to think of more topics to get debate going,

But right now even if kev did raise his prices i dont think it would make much difference to the people in the know, but in saying that i know a few people that brought the albinos from kev, and took them to the super auction the same night and sold them for a profit.

Either way they aint worth $10-15 each anymore,

And no offence Red, but i personally wouldnt buy any fish off you becuase you advertised white crane on the forum, fine if its for a display tank, but if the young are going to the store or markets in full male colour i would be surprised if anyone on the forum would touch it.

Maybe you could clear that one up, for you, and so i dont look like the nasty one. Just dont make sense someone getting hold of the wholesaler for a display tank though.

[ndoboi]

Im with you Deagon - the shops are there to provide a livelyhood for the owner/manager and employees. It needs to cover many more overheads than the backyard breeder who is, unless they are a commercial breeder, just a hobbyist.
That backyard breeder also has a nine-to-five job or other means of income!
If you dont like it then I suggest you breed them in the numbers that Kev has been talking about and make yourself a tidy amount. Otherwise how about stop whingeing and enjoy the fact that new or more people can enter the hobby now because the fish are at a reasonable price.
We spend all this time bitching and moaning on overseas forums about how us poor aussies have to pay sooo much for catfish and when they finally come down to the equivalent overseas we cry hard done by..
Maybe we just like to whinge.

Anyway, that's my rant for the weekend. Have a good one.
Steve

[Thanes]

Hey kev if you want ask what we want specials on or what we are breeding I wouldn't mind the the price of L46 L200 L236 all to drop by about $500 each.Wouldn't that be lovely.hahaha
Cheers Brian.

[red]

hey someone.

i don't use white crane food at all, i was offered the chance to get it form the importer at a cheap price to try help out people on this forum but do not sell it because i felt that people do not want it so saved me a lot of money by not ordering it.

i only use osi food and new life spectrum food for all my fish plus fresh vegie's so i don't care if you do not wan't to buy my fish there is people out there that do.

ps: people that have brough my fish have remarked how healty they are
maybe due to i spend all my time breeding and looking after them.

this is my income and livelyhood.

red

[Thanes]

PART 2
Next we raise prices!If we sort this properly we could teach the petrol & concrete companies some thing,then we could hire ourselves out as consultants for the big companies.First the fish market then concrete & petrol than the telco's.
Cheers Lord Brian Ruler of the World.

[dammwoman]

Now theres something to think on!

Kev why not invest in a servo or 2.
The whole country would think you a KING when. :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Cheers Linda

[aquariumwarehouse]

yes guys  i am  amazed  with this  thread ......

lets bring them prices down 8O  8O


petrol  :evil:   who told you i am good with petrol... :oops:

must have be washdoc   :cry:


kev

[Thanes]

Come on Linda get in on ground floor & kev & I could ordain you & Bob King & Queen of South America.

[ndoboi]

Slightly off topic;
Linda, are you able to list the catties that you and Bob are using hormone treatment to trigger? Im curious to know which plecs are being induced.

Cheers
Steve

[dammwoman]

Don't hormone any of the L numbers.
Have done on Synodontas Eruptus sucessfully and working on 2 other rarer Synos when Bobs setup for breeding again in Cairns.
Have done Wood Cats sucessfully sort of. No live fry I mean, first lot the eggs weren't fertile and the next lot a small percentage hatched but no luck with getting them past 2 days. I think our male is a bit old and obviously need to look into the food and conditions better before next time.
Also have Black Asian Upside down Cats (my personal favorites) conditioning up now.
All up have around 10 unusual ones to play with but the L numbers don't need it. Just get the breeding setup right get them into really top condition and be 100% sure you have the right numbers of boys to girls (also watch out for rogue egg eaters in the group).
Should have new Pleco facility finished by end April....Had to make a few changes to make more cyclone proof but hoping to have them settled in by mid May.
Cheers Linda

[ndoboi]

Thanks Linda, very informative as usual  :D

[aquariumwarehouse]

hi all

any one know the  term


PRICE FIXING    :?:  :?:  :oops:  :oops:


step lightly  allready had a phone call  8O  8O


regards kev

[braddo]

Now I have been fish since I was five now 34 yo the last 15 years have done it quite well I can't believe red you think you cannot make money off the price kev is offering $2 a fish isn't bad considering he takes 1500 a month a fish room doesn't cost that to run. I know mine here is 70 tanks and at most it cost me about $120-150 a month to run. I am also about to put in a hot house to expand my breeding even more. I am having difficulty supplying my market at the moment but in the next month or 2 will be able to cover my customers needs. By the way that costing is electricity, food, water and chemicals. But I have my ways of doing it.

I also design and use my own filtration (not systems in case you were wondering). So rather than winging about the price you won't get for a fish, how about go into something you can get a price for. I think kev is great for lowering the price. e is thinking about turnover after all the shops and wholesalers don't make money out of the fish sitting in the tanks until they sell. So why not sell more at a lower price and make a bigger profit in the long run, than sell a few fish at a higher price and sit in your tanks(more chance of them to die).

I stand firm and sell to my wholesaler at an agreed price and find I have no problem in selling them. The only problem I have is supplying a constant supply.

Just my thoughts anyway.