Hey Folks,
Back from a long, long, long extended weekend showing off fish at Aquashella. It's fantastic to be back in the office or something like that. It'll be fantastic when I get to sleep for a full night in my own bed.
Aquashella is the first consumer show I've displayed at since Aquatic Experience. This was a lot better because I didn't have sea lion shows going on next to my booth all day long. And I got to break out a crazy fish shirt that would make Rick Preuss proud.
Don't worry, we're not doing the show because we're selling to the public. Thank God all of you do that because I'm definitely not cut out for dealing with the public. I'm at the shows to promote the Starfire Red® GloFish® angelfish. While I got the occasional fish geek wacko telling me he thinks GloFish® are worse than cancer and I'm going to hell for selling them, that was a tiny fraction of the people I talked to. Public sentiment was at least 100 to 1 in favor of the GloFish®, and all but about one or two people that didn't like them at least softened their stance on the fish after we chatted for a while. I may not ever have GloFish® in my house, but I learned a long time ago that I'm not going to get upset about what someone else likes or doesn't like in their tanks.
Release date on the Starfire Red® GloFish® angelfish is 7/21, and my hope is that by doing these shows you have people in your store waiting for your fish delivery that day.
As far as new fish, I got new guppies, I have some stuff that might have come in over the weekend or sometime after I left last week, and I have more stuff coming today and tomorrow. It's all a little fuzzy today, but I did get a walkthrough done this afternoon and I can tell you what looks good. Some of the fish that stood out include silver dumbos, red tux, and red coral guppies, huge oversized acei cichlids, some of the nicest black phantom tetras I've ever seen, red chromides, sunset thicklips, green fire tetras, archerfish, gigantic highfin black skirts, saw knives, medium panda angels, medium yellow rainbows, big pastel neon tetras, Colombian tetras, panda Synos, red-spot gold severums, rocket gar, glass bloodfins, penguins, and large bleeding hearts.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Director of Sales & Marketing
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