Vancouvers aquarium market has ruined the Interior aquarium market.... The low prices on the coast have been answered with your populations high demand, our low demand and low population has made it not worth bringing in anything because of low volume sales with low margin...


example.... hypothetically all fish are $5 wholesale $7 retail....

vancouver store sells 5000 fish @ $2 profit= $2000

kelowna store sells 50 fish @ $2 profit= $100

and dont say to raise our prices.... without exagerating, I have seen people drive 200miles to save those $3



this results in almost no selection, no nice equipment, the stores here cant afford to maintain the same store with such low volume sales....

the only way I was personally able to survive when I used to bring in alot of fish is by baseing my business from home, and haveing alot of holding tanks enabling me to buy direct from collectors in volume thus keeping my costs low, and then charging a fair retail price to the customer...

if I start bringin fish again, this is how I will operate again, its the only way you could even cover your expenses here...

if you ask almost any reefer in the interior, they drive to vancouver, or purchase through mail order, I hate the way the business has gone in vancouver, so do alot in the industry, I prefer the livestock being more expensive, it leads to less flushed fish(there will always be ones who dont care but it would weed a few out) if you go to stores located in LA that dont even pay the extra air freight we do, they pay alot more than we do for their fish....

vancouver has ruined the industry in my opinion, my rant is over, time for some oreo icecream.....