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Offline danotaylor

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wtb malawi peacock & haps; large numbers
« on: September 14, 2015, 05:35:17 PM »
G'day MCA crew,

As some of you will know from a previous post I work as an aquarium installation & maintenance guy with a few mates of mine. We are working on a proposal with a client to turn a 10,000 gallon Lake Erie catchment native fish display into a peacock & hap tank. I will require relatively large numbers of many different species to fill the tank. The quality of the fish must be flawless and the size range to begin with is gonna be in the 2"-4" range. Obviously we want a sea of color and variety. I doubt we can manage to get all males, lol, but we'd want as many as you have for sure.

At this time we don't want anything classified as "aggressive", like zebras, which aren't haps or peacocks anyway. We also haven't decided about the big open water haps as yet so if you have Bucco's, rostratus, champso's and the like let's get a price on 25 & 50. These guys will reach max size in a 10,000 gallon tank and anything under 6-8" could become dinner. Price me anyway and we'll see once we plan the species list.

I will compile a wish list to post after I have an answer to our proposal. If you are a local breeder in the SE Michigan area, or can ship with O2 & live arrival gaurentee, and have quantities of 50+ single species of fish in this size range I would like to hear what you have. If you have multiple species with 50+ of each that's great, I just want minimum of 50 + of each species.

We already have a capacity to order wholesale through business contacts we have, I just thought it would be great to support as many local breeders as possible in the process.

I have great quality blue dolphins already sourced, so any other peacock or hap is fair game at this stage. Lemme know what ya got and an approx price on 50, 75 & 100 if those prices are different.

Thanks everyone.

Danny
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Re: wtb malawi peacock & haps; large numbers
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2015, 10:26:30 PM »
Due to the large size of the tank (overall volume & that it is 7' deep) we are going to put a few large groups of mbuna in the mix. Again, we don't want zebras (metriaclima sp.) due their hyper-aggression but I would love a large group (50+) of quality yellow labs and demasoni.

If you cannot manage 50 of a single species but have 30 or so please chime in with what you have and your asking price. The meeting with our client is tomorrow afternoon. I hope we have an immediate answer!

Fish already sourced;
Blue dolphins
Yellow blaze litho's
Cynotilapia afra cobue

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Re: wtb malawi peacock & haps; large numbers
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2015, 09:13:11 PM »
Fish already sourced;
Blue dolphins
Yellow blaze litho's
Cynotilapia afra cobue
Yellow labs
Rusty cichlid

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Re: wtb malawi peacock & haps; large numbers
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2015, 10:53:18 AM »
Ob peacocks
Dragon blood peacock
Blue dragon blood peacock
Kenyi
Sp.44 red tail
 Have 30 or more + 2"

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Re: wtb malawi peacock & haps; large numbers
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2015, 07:52:24 AM »
G'day MCA crew...

It is with sadness that I write to you this morning as our client rejected our proposal. They opted to spend $9000 to replace the chiller on the 10,000 gallon tank and keep the blue gill, crappie & small walleye display running. The GM told us that Corporate policy mandated that the  tank be designated solely to native species only.

I am gutted, and now with the benefit of retrospect, I should have been more patient to wait upon their decision before posting. I was so sure they'd go for it from a financial & display quality standpoint, and i wanted to ready ready to act quickly. Sadly I was wrong.

Kind regards everyone,

Danny

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