Coral Questionaire

Wildisme

Wildisme

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So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?

2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?

3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?

4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?

5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?

6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
 
Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
Store
2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
Aquatica...20-30 min drive
3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
Healthy specimens, knowledge, selection, deals.
4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
$20 bucks
5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
Depends on the coral and the price, but I prefer mini colonies.
6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
Yes, in the suburban areas, but not the actual city limits.
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I hope that helps. :)
 
Here you go:

Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
both

2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
MCF, ~15 miles

3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
customer service, quality of live stock, higher end livestock

4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
~$50-$100 per coral/frag (higher end)

5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
frags

6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
there are too many run of the mill stores, perhaps another store that only specializes in high end corals such as WWC, Cherry, etc
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Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
Store
2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
MCF, ShoTank; 5~20 miles (usually on the way home from work)
3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
Selection, Price, variety and expertise (convenience as well)
4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
$5-30
5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
Frags (not a lot of room for colonies in 28g if you like variety)
6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
As a recent SW convert I am actually surprised at how many there are.
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Rookie perspective at least
 
Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
store

2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
a few different but 30 to hour drive

3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
clean and staff is great

4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
50_100 a trip

5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
frags

6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
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never enough store for reefing
 
Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
Mostly Local Reefers, but sometimes online AND store
2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
As far as 2 hours depending on whether the store has what I want. Generally New Fish, Old Town Aquarium, and MCF though.
3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
Healthy Livestock. No presence of pests when dipping previous stores purchases.
4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
Hundreds if it's what I want
5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
Colonies
6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
Too many stores in the Chicagoland area.
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Answers in bold.
 
Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
Both, and also from local reefers

2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
I mostly buy from MCF but I've bought from almost all the stores in the north, some more than others. I usually try to keep it under an hour of travel.

3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
Nice selection and fair prices, same reason I'd shop anywhere for anything :)


4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
That really varies, but usually not much more than $100 at a time.

5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
I prefer watching frags grow into colonies. Besides, lately I'm buying high-end frags that I would never spend the money on if they were colonies.

6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?
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Why? You thinking about opening another one?
 
Wildisme said:
So doing a little research. Wondering if you guys can answer a few questions for me. Please try to keep posts to answers only.

1. Do you buy your corals online or at a store?
Store
2. If at a store, What store and how far do you drive to buy corals?
Usually MCF or SHO tanks or local reefers

3. What makes you choose this store for your corals?
Quality, the staff, the deals, and u get to actually see up close the coral that u are buying..

4. How much do you spend on avg on corals?
$5-$50

5. Do you prefer colonies or frags from the store?
Frags

6. Do you feel that the Chicago area has enough stores?i thnk we need a couple more on the burbs and the chicago area
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hope this helps :)
 
If I can find an investor to help out. Most of the design is done. Name, promotions, layout.

Just gotta do more research for the business plan so I have some marketing stuff to plan out.

We are looking to bring more high end hard to find stuff to the Chicago area, and hopefully start a nice farming setup rather then just import n sell.

Also from the looks of it we will be aiming more for good priced frags rather then large colonies to sell.
 
Wildisme said:
If I can find an investor to help out. Most of the design is done. Name, promotions, layout.

Just gotta do more research for the business plan so I have some marketing stuff to plan out.

We are looking to bring more high end hard to find stuff to the Chicago area, and hopefully start a nice farming setup rather then just import n sell.

Also from the looks of it we will be aiming more for good priced frags rather then large colonies to sell.
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where would you be located, if anywhere near northbrook i could work over the summer so you could get a experienced person, not just a average worker like somebody from petsmart lol
 
Wildisme said:
Also from the looks of it we will be aiming more for good priced frags rather then large colonies to sell.
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Your margins will be higher on frags but there is certainly a market for reasonably priced mini-colonies. Do you have maintenance clients lined up?
 
Not yet. We still have alot of things to work out before we can choose a location.

I'm sure we will have minis for sale aswell. Just main focus on frags.
 
People usually get paid for taking surveys.

Hopefully you get investors and do it the right way, not just another craigslist farmer.
 
HecticZ said:
People usually get paid for taking surveys.

Hopefully you get investors and do it the right way, not just another craigslist farmer.
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I'll give u a $5 frag if we open.

This will either be done right or not at all. It'll be a business, not a side thing done outta my basement.

Let's just hope for the best.
 
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