Never come between a dog and her shark

Discussion in 'The Bucket' started by WuWu, Nov 28, 2009.

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    Wow that's awesome. I stopped into a lfs and they had a bunch of sharks swimming in one of their DT was pretty awesome
     
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  3. gazog

    gazog Kole Tang

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    I don't know but it looks to be small enough to be called dinner for the shark.
     
  4. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    UGG Sore topic. :-(

    When I left, my shares reverted to R and S. R left not long afterwards leaving 100% ownership in S's hands. While I was running things, we had 2 600g display tanks and 2 450g display tanks in addition to all of the normal tanks that a LFS had. We gave tours to kids on field trips including a "petting zoo" with starfish and other very safe animals. We would have fragging demo's where I taught people how to frag. (They didn't know this was going to happen ahead of time, but everyone who ever attended walked home with their practice frags for free).

    All fish were QT'd in the QT warehouse as were the corals. Every single coral was dipped for common parasites before they were brought to the store. We had hospital tanks in the QT warehouse too. I had wholesale customers in MO, IL, TN, and AR. Given more time I would have had more. (I worked out favorable terms directly with the manufacturers so I could supply other LFS's cheaper than the distributors could).

    NONE of the above exists anymore, not the display tanks, not the fragging classes, nothing is QT'd anymore, the wholesale customers are gone. It's quite sad to work like a dog and build up a successful business and then watch an idiot ruin it all.
     
  5. =Jwin=

    =Jwin= Tassled File Fish

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    Oh man that sucks!!! :( I didn't know about those issues. Sorry for bringing it up...

    Do you think you'll ever try to start another business like that?