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We had a few of these years ago in the Solomon Islands. We called them Pineapple cucumbers and sold them right away. I don't know the story of how deep they were collected or of how they fared with aquarium life. Dave

Another of the Lightning Strike maroon clowns has surfaced from Papua New Guinea. It arrived in the States on 3-28-10. Dave

It is not such a good thing for the exporting countries or for the reefs in those countries. Coastal villages need to make a small amount of money for their living expenses and school fees, it is not much but they need something. They rely totally on what resource they have to sell. When they...

Thales, The collect to order list may work for some species but won't work well for others. Also who is going to decide what goes on the collect to order list and how could that be enforced. For instance most of the nautilus come from the Philippines. The guys collecting them need to collect...

Eric has a school education day going on at SDC today, trying to make some new little hobbyists to keep us all in business. They are even serving Tacos for the kids and workers. I am glad that Eric can do it, a bunch of kids running around the warehouse is my nightmare. I am glad that Eric...

Hey Eric, Does your arm hurt after patting yourself on the back like that? On a more serious note I cast my vote for no USL list. A case can be made for putting everything on a USL list depending on what your feelings are and where you stand on the whole aquarium issue. I don't like the idea...

Yes the Nemo farm was part of the tank raised fish that they gave an exemption to and allowed to be shipped out. A few years ago when Nemo farm started shipping I was offered wild caught ocellaris from Thailand. They were apparently getting a permit to ship tank raised and shipping wild...

It is not legal to export Marine species from Thailand except for a few certified tank raised species. These guys were catching for the local market in Thailand. Dave

One thing that should be remembered in this PAF / Blue Zoo drama is that these are two different companies with a common stockholder. Each company is run seperately, if they are profitable it is good for me the stockholder. If Blue Zoo does not succeed and goes out of business it does not...

Wonderreef, I don't think that last statement is entirely true. You tran shipped bread and butter items directly from me in the past thus bypassing PAF. Australia corals and I believe some Tonga cultured corals have also been tran shipped by you direct from L.A. Importers (some my suppliers)...

Some of the reason that you are not getting much response about other wholesalers is that we are so interconnected with product supply and buying and selling from each other that you could trace retail sales, drop shipping to retail customers, retail sales out of the warehouse, or etail sales to...

I was not commenting on your points to go tit for tat with you, I posted to further discussion on the points of what you find important in a wholesaler and if those points are better met by a small operation or a large one. I certainly did not skip point 1 to blow you off, I skipped it...

Point 5 I agree, customers should be called weekly. Some customers like this, others do not want to be bothered that much but I do agree some type of contact should be made weekly even if it is just an email. We are very bad at this at PAF. Again the business really relys on its sales team...

There have been some interesting replies. I find the one from Wonderreef quite interesting mainly in that he seems to list items that are important to him that would lead him to buy from small operations. Many of his examples are points that can only really be done properly by small...

Good post, this should bring out some interesting ideas Dave