Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Buying Basic Tanks in the UK (Was New member from UK)

Dawn.
I am not surprised at the price difference between the US and UK. It is the same with petrol and camera gear I believe.

Dave.

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From: Dawn Moneyhan <dawnshungryeyes4u2c@yahoo.com>
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 5:41
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Buying Basic Tanks in the UK (Was New member from UK)

Christine, thank you for the links.
I am a bit shocked at the prices on these tanks. I did some conversions for size and price to compare them to the US sizes/prices and am sitting here in amazement... a 33.66 gallon tank (just tank) would run $167.77! That is a bit outrageous considering here I can get a tank up to 75 gallons for $1/gallon at the local PetCo or PetSmart or any of a number of local pet stores. That is more than double the cost we would pay here in the states. For that amount of money we could get the stand, light fixture, and cover to go with it... and if it's a sale, we could also get the filter and heater included for that price. I am speechless... don't know how to react to that.

But I thank you for providing the resource in case any of my customers should need it in the future and are able to afford that kind of investment. I wish I had known about this a year or 2 ago... it could have saved a few people a lot of headaches/issues.

Dawn

Dawn Moneyhan
Aquatics Specialist/Nutritionist
To learn more about me go to
http://www.helium.com/users/449334

--- On Wed, 6/26/13, Chris@Rott-n-kids.com <chris@rott-n-kids.com> wrote:

From: Chris@Rott-n-kids.com <chris@rott-n-kids.com>
Subject: [tropical fish club] Buying Basic Tanks in the UK (Was New member from UK)
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 7:06 PM

The website I have been looking through is at

http://www.aquariums.ltd.uk/Aquarium%20List.asp

They also have the bigger tanks - which is where I got waylaid and

realised I might need to rob a bank....

There are others - I just did a Google search when I started looking and

turned up a few - the one above is the only one I still have bookmarked

(mainly because I liked the look of their larger tanks :) )

Another one I remember is Clearseal - I've also seen them advertise

basic rectangular tanks in the UK on ebay. They produce standard

size/smaller tanks ready off the peg, so to speak, and also take orders

for customised sizes - http://www.clearseal.com/index.htm

HTH

Christine McCluskey

Scotland, UK

On 26/06/2013 22:29, Dawn Moneyhan wrote:

>

> I would love to know where to find a standard tank without built in

> filters and etc. in the UK. I have many friends and customers over

> there who have reported to me that getting a standard, rectangular

> tank without all of the built in's was impossible to find, and thus I

> ended up having to help them manage with what was available to them.

> Having a new resource for them would be incredibly helpful.

> I apologize if the info I presented is inaccurate in this regard... I

> don't live in the UK, so only have the info provided to me by those

> people I have helped who do live there... which has been quite a few

> over the past 2 yrs. I spent months online searching for the standard

> basic rectangular tanks without anything in it and came up empty every

> time. As for the shipping issues I mentioned, I was referring to

> shipping a tank from a US manufacturer or store to the UK. There are

> a few US companies who have extended their production overseas but

> they don't ship the tanks from the US to the UK. They are

> manufactured overseas.

>

> Dawn

>

> Dawn Moneyhan

> Aquatics Specialist/Nutritionist

> To learn more about me go to

> http://www.helium.com/users/449334

>

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