On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:18:01 -0500, Chris Palma
wrote:
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From a potential customer's point of view, I agree with NetMax. When I
started my new aquarium and was testing my water, I was worried that my
local hard, alkaline water was going to severely limit my choices of
possible fish to stock. However, when I went to talk to my LFS, he
pointed out that all of his stock is kept in local tap water that he just
treats with standard tap conditioner. From my point of view, this made me
feel a lot better -- if fish were thriving in his tanks, then I thought I
had a good shot of having them do well in mine.

If I had walked into his shop and been told that he went to some lengths
to treat the water to set up the perfect conditions for each species, I
would have walked out more discouraged about my prospects for successfully
keeping the fish that I wanted in my tank.

I was planning on keeping it as simple as possible. My only planning
on the different tanks was water temp and possible softening for
Discus (which I still believe are the Kings of the trade)

I know that I can produce Discus at a lower price than $25 each and
still make a profit even taking into consideration culls, losses etc.

The city water where this store is located is fairly soft anyway, all
I have to remove is chloramines which I would probably have to deal
with wherever I setup shop.

As I said, this is still early in the planning stages and depends on
what my actual costs will be to get the site and supply it. It may
not happen soon though since the building is tied up in probate. IE,
the family has been fighting on who gets what and about how much it is
worth... been sitting 'empty' for almost 8 years now so I am hoping
the price reflects the amount of work needed to re-roof the buildings
and refurbish the interiors.

BTW, where in Pennsylvania are you? I live in central PA, about halfway
between Pittsburgh & Philly.
--chris


Scranton / Wilkes-Barre, Upper north east part of the state.