Hey Folks,
It's finally Moonrise Pink® GloFish® Cory launch day! Available for orders immediately. This new color looks absolutely fantastic, just as bright and obviously super pink as the greens are for green, and should be a great seller. We held back a limited number of greens for this week as well so that if you're ordering the new ones you can stock up with every color at the same time. Of course we also have plenty of the Sunburst Orange® to go around as well so you can have all 3 colors.
Before we talk fish, It's of extreme importance we mention that next week is Thanksgiving. Exciting for family, sales, shopping, and making money in your store.....not exciting for shipping fish orders. If you at all can make it work this week, I'd HIGHLY suggest ordering this week and skipping next week. We will only have 2 packing days next week, so 4 days worth of orders getting packed in half that time. We're going to run out of stuff we wouldn't normally run out of on a daily basis, and then you may have delays with your freight through UPS or airlines, so if at all possible stock up this week.
For those that can't avoid it, next week's shipping and order schedule is as follows:
--Send in your order by Sunday night for Monday pack (Tues arrival)
--Order between the hours of 10am and 5PM on Monday for Tuesday pack (Wed arrival).
Thats it. No possibility to take orders on Tuesday to pack Tuesday (this is normal policy, but just wanted to stress it's definitely still the case especially on short packing weeks). Double check that you submitted your website order and it's not in your cart anymore. Send your sales rep a "please confirm order" text or email or phone call if you sent an order and we don't reply back pretty quickly. I don't want anybody to "forget" to get their order in Monday afternoon and end up without fish for Black Friday. Lets all make some money together.
As for fish, we did get some long awaited restocks over the weekend! Silvertip tetras are back! I think I've been asked for silvertips about 5 times a week for the past 6 months and always had to say No, but they're finally in tanks here today! And they look great, tons of orange color on the males, super impressive tetra, and well worth the high demand, I 100% get it.
We also are happy to announce a new item to the Feeder Fish category I think will be a big hit: XRay Tetras! We're able to offer these in a box of 250 fish for only $25, so literally half the price of Rosey Reds and much much better quality fish to be using as feeders. Goldfish and roseys are dirty, gross fish raised in pretty deplorable conditions that can be sources of problems for your pet fish you feed them to. Getting away from those to a healthier food source is good enough reason to swap, but also the fact that you can literally double your profit margin by halving your cost should be a pretty darn good reason too. Maybe you can finally actually make some money on Feeders. I think 90% of the time they end up being a loss leader you break even on to get people in the door and hope they buy something else while they're in there.
From Asia we got a restock on Blood parrots, should be enough to last through the week unless this week is as busy as it should be with the GloFish® launch and Thanksgiving coming up. Also got normal White Clouds restocked again and also should have plenty on those. Not too exciting, but it's a staple fish you need to keep in stock. Lastly, regular flowerhorns. They've been out of stock a few weeks but they're back now and looking as good as ever.
-Steven
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| Medium Bosemani Rainbows are back in stock and much better than the regular size. |
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| Blood Parrot cichlids got restocked over the weekend, and the "small" size came in much better than normal. |
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| Medium sized Lemon Blue Eyes are looking fantastic. This strain is much nicer than the normal albino bushynose, a bright yellow color with nice clear eyes. |
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| XL Peacocks are going on special, and they're literally the best looking, biggest peacocks I think I've ever seen. Great chance to pick up some show-quality fish. |
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| XL Peacocks are going on special, and they're literally the best looking, biggest peacocks I think I've ever seen. Great chance to pick up some show-quality fish. |
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| XL Peacocks are going on special, and they're literally the best looking, biggest peacocks I think I've ever seen. Great chance to pick up some show-quality fish. |
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| Phenochilus are looking really nice even at regular size. This is a little pricier hap than most other species, but they're worth it. Also known as "star sapphire" cichlids, for what mature dominant males end up looking like. Keep in mind though, it takes probably legit 5 years to develop colors like you see online. Your cichlid customers will still want them though. |
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| Regular green terrors came back in and they're great size for regulars. |
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| New to the list as of Monday, flowerhorns are back in stock. I think we were without them for a couple of weeks recently but they're back and look great as usual. |
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| 2 inch tiger shovelnose got restocked late last week. The size isn't impressive, but the price is. You should have no problem moving these at a great margin. |
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Reptile & Amphibian Highlights
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