Your thoughts on a local business Concept...

gREEF stricken · 08/17/2014, 11:14 AM

Fellow Entrepreneurial spirits,

So I just sold off all my freshwater fish in my fishroom and am gradually switching to primarily SW/Reef tanks. So I now have a bunch of empty bnut operational tanks and space. I am interested in utilizing them for a variety of small time local services to fund my addicton...

I am appealing to you as a collective of a MYRIAD of backgrounds, lifestyles, living situations and tank setups to ask this:

Of all the little stuff you use/consume/purchase, what would RATHER buy local??

By this I mean for example take pods. I dig 'em. Have ordered them from several places and haven't truly been satisfied with what I got. but I can say this...If a local guy on CL had them for a reasonable cost I would be STOKED to drive 20-40 min to see the tank they came from, and who knows, get there and find he cultures all SORTS of stuff I have been ordering online or overpaying for at my LFS. I not talking a full blown business as I already have a regular gig, but just the random things that people would appreciate being able to get local, cheap and TODAY. I have been raising freshwater Daphnia for years but they are semi-useless in the Marine tank as they perish almost instantly in the salinity so now I will passing my culture to a friend and changing gears...Let me hear what ya got?

Thanks
GS

PS, for any idea beyond PODS, if I use it I will credit the original posting member and ship you something once I'm up and runnin.

BossHoggin · 08/17/2014, 11:59 AM

Pods, brine shrimp, scuds, phytoplankton and Rotifers come to mind. I don't personally bother with any of these given the needs of my livestock, but see many over paying for these at LFS (never seen scuds cultured). All would have to be separate of course.

moondoggy4 · 08/17/2014, 12:06 PM

If you live in the middle of nowhere people won't drive to your house, so then you will have to ship, that is expensive. Where do you live?ie LA Chicago NY/NY a town of 300?

gREEF stricken · 08/17/2014, 12:33 PM

I live not too terribly far the Tacoma/Seattle area. I don't see those logistics as an issue.

GS

d2mini · 08/17/2014, 12:48 PM

Live Blackworms!

moondoggy4 · 08/17/2014, 01:02 PM

Maybe a shipping enterprise between the US and Canada. Ship to Alaska.

Bigfish246 · 08/17/2014, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BossHoggin

Pods, brine shrimp, scuds, phytoplankton and Rotifers come to mind.

I would second that if they were. But since you asked, no farther than 30 minutes though, then its not worth my time.

Subsea · 08/17/2014, 02:59 PM

Advertise live feed. Grow pods and macro algae in the same tank for herbivore fish. Ulva and Red Gracilaria are two options. I grow Gracilaria Parvspora, Red Ogo, for human consumption.

08/17/2014, 11:14 AM	#1
gREEF stricken Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Puyallup WA Posts: 200	Your thoughts on a local business Concept... Fellow Entrepreneurial spirits, So I just sold off all my freshwater fish in my fishroom and am gradually switching to primarily SW/Reef tanks. So I now have a bunch of empty bnut operational tanks and space. I am interested in utilizing them for a variety of small time local services to fund my addicton... I am appealing to you as a collective of a MYRIAD of backgrounds, lifestyles, living situations and tank setups to ask this: Of all the little stuff you use/consume/purchase, what would RATHER buy local?? By this I mean for example take pods. I dig 'em. Have ordered them from several places and haven't truly been satisfied with what I got. but I can say this...If a local guy on CL had them for a reasonable cost I would be STOKED to drive 20-40 min to see the tank they came from, and who knows, get there and find he cultures all SORTS of stuff I have been ordering online or overpaying for at my LFS. I not talking a full blown business as I already have a regular gig, but just the random things that people would appreciate being able to get local, cheap and TODAY. I have been raising freshwater Daphnia for years but they are semi-useless in the Marine tank as they perish almost instantly in the salinity so now I will passing my culture to a friend and changing gears...Let me hear what ya got? Thanks GS PS, for any idea beyond PODS, if I use it I will credit the original posting member and ship you something once I'm up and runnin.

08/17/2014, 11:59 AM	#2
BossHoggin Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Compton, CA Posts: 198	Pods, brine shrimp, scuds, phytoplankton and Rotifers come to mind. I don't personally bother with any of these given the needs of my livestock, but see many over paying for these at LFS (never seen scuds cultured). All would have to be separate of course. __________________ Josh 60B mixed reef w/ 33G sump/refugium 125G FOWLR w/ Eshopps R_300

08/17/2014, 12:48 PM	#5
d2mini Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 10,344	Live Blackworms! __________________ -dennis Elos Diamond 120xl \| Elos Stand \| Radion G4 Pros \| GHL Profilux Controller \| LifeReef Skimmer \| LifeReef Sump Photos taken with a Nikon D750 or Leica M.

08/17/2014, 02:59 PM	#8
Subsea Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Austin, Tx Posts: 1,882	Advertise live feed. Grow pods and macro algae in the same tank for herbivore fish. Ulva and Red Gracilaria are two options. I grow Gracilaria Parvspora, Red Ogo, for human consumption. __________________ Laissez les bons temps rouler, Patrick Castille Current Tank Info: 10,000G. Greenhouse Macro Growout

08/17/2014, 12:06 PM	#3
moondoggy4 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: menifee So cal Posts: 11,042	If you live in the middle of nowhere people won't drive to your house, so then you will have to ship, that is expensive. Where do you live?ie LA Chicago NY/NY a town of 300?

08/17/2014, 12:33 PM	#4
gREEF stricken Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Puyallup WA Posts: 200	I live not too terribly far the Tacoma/Seattle area. I don't see those logistics as an issue. GS

08/17/2014, 01:02 PM	#6
moondoggy4 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: menifee So cal Posts: 11,042	Maybe a shipping enterprise between the US and Canada. Ship to Alaska.