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Greetings All ! Tiny snowballs gain mass and momentum in interesting ways ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-wi ... 93427.html 8O

http://www.dtfiberglass.com/index.html ... but the shipping charges are evil. :mrgreen:

Greetings All ! Hmmm ... "long chain" and "short chain" appear in marine ornamental industry literature at least as early as 2001, and were used within socio-economic and price structure contexts. I'm just sayin' ... I have no objection to QM using whatever terminology they please, and I'm...

Greetings All ! wonderreef ... you taking the time to generate a response with such depth is more appreciated than you can know. Many Thanks ! ... :D

Greetings All ! Thanks for the response, wonderreef. I was wondering what you meant by, "a host of product and service innovations" ... can you list some examples? I ask, in part, because I agree with Dave and Race that the supply chain is currently undergoing some fundamental changes, the...

Greetings All ! Could you be more specific as to what you perceive the smaller wholesalers are doing to gain and hold customers that is different (compared to what the big kids are doing)? Many Thanks ! :D

Greetings All ! FragFarmer was sold this past April, and is no longer connected with Route66Marine ... :mrgreen: Route66Marine does not sell to individual hobbyists. We spent a long time wrestling with how to cleanly tap into all the different strata of the marketplace simultaneously ...

Greetings All ! Candidate Question and Answer http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/view ... 264&t=5336 FYI :idea:

Greetings All ! As of this moment, the "Elections?" thread is visible in the Zooplankton subforum here: http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/view ... 264&t=5071 It is fascinating reading. JMO :wink:

Greetings All ! Thales ... yours is one of the few voices in this forum that commands my respect. I don't always share your perspective, but your contributions of knowledge, goodwill, passion, and willingness to give of your time to multiple cyber-extensions of the marine ornamental industry...

Acanthurus? ... hmmm ... not Zebrasoma (Bennett, 1828) ?

I haven't, but a quick web search returned this ... http://www.aquafind.com/boards/Aquamesg ... brd=comorn HTH 8O

The last semi-believable industry statistics that I've seen (~1998) asserted that approximately 50% of marine ornamental hobbyists left the hobby within 18 months of setting up their marine aquarium. If this is correct, then the fundamental issue isn't one of "creation" ... it's about retention...

Just trying to disable email notifications to replys ... :D

Greetings All ! When did I become sane? ... 8O ... :twisted: It's the mix of retail-ecommerce-aquaculture that I find so interesting ... :wink: I don't concede the premise ... I've never seen his books. Despite being relatively aware of the historical drama here and on RC (... if you...