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Anyone here sell Coral as a side gig via husbandry?
What's grows the fastest?
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What's grows the fastest?
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What grows the fastest is typically not as desirable and therefore not worth as much. I think zoas are a good middle of the road coral to propagate for money. They typically grow at a good rate have a fair amount of demand and usually fetch a decent price.Anyone here sell Coral as a side gig via husbandry?
What's grows the fastest?
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Something else I should add to this. Selling coral isn't like cutting grass (is there residential grass in SF?) where you show up, do something, and leave. People buying frags at a residence rarely show up, swap money for things, and promptly leave. More often they look at your tank, think about what they want, ask you about your setup, show off some picture of their system, discuss reef husbandry, and then chat for a bit about the weather. While I've gotten it as short as ~2 minutes, I generally assume 30-60 minutes for someone to swing by and buy a frag.
I actually stopped selling plants out of my freshwater aquarium for this reason, and because I got to the point where I knew more people into planted tanks than I could keep up with. I switched to dumping them in the compost because it saved me an hour or two a week that was getting maybe $10 in sales. If people were motivated enough to come by when I was doing my every other week trimming/maintenance and watch/learn/help I'd give them a whole bucket of plants for free, but not advertising and requiring them to meet my schedule left me with a lot more time for other things like my reef.
What selling frags does do is provide a great way to meet hobbyists, promote the hobby, and spread knowledge without having to wait for the next club event.
Between selling corals, frag plugs and 3d prints I am sure my neighbors suspect me of selling drugs. Blue and purple lights in the house doesn't help.When I was selling red cherry shrimp from my freshwater planted tank (fantastic side business BTW, and way more profitable than corals), I usually told people it was a pain to park and I'd just meet them on the street so they didn't need to find parking. It was really an excuse to avoid the disruption and long conversations. There were a few people that came up, but most people were cool with the streetside hand off, although I'm suspicious that the neighbors probably thought I was a drug dealer...
I've picked up a few frags from folks in the area, and I usually try to spend a few minutes talking tanks, but also be respectful of their time and the fact that I'm intruding on their space.
Nialed it. My first 3d prints for reefing went to retail shops for store credit. It was a win/win for both. It's the only reason my reef tank exists. I don't have the budget for the hobby with what's going on in my life.Store credit works great for retailers. Say they pay you $100 for your coral. That’s the wholesale value of the coral. Conservatively they are probably going to resell it for twice what they gave you. So even though they gave you $100 they will still make $100 off of it. Next, because it’s store credit you’re locked in to using that $100 with them. Say you spend it on a fish. That $100 is the retail price that you pay. He paid the wholesale price which is probably closer to $50. So the $100 store credit is really only about $50 that came out of their pocket. In the end the fish store pays you $50 and gets $150 from the sale.
Me too.I guess I’m “that guy”. I try to chat people up about their tanks. I thought it was just the friendly thing to do.