>From where I stand all rainbows are VERY commercial. Last fiscal year our
>farm sold 29,897 rainbows. Of these 6,987 were PNG Bows. Further more the
>PNG Bows were almost half the $ value of total rainbow sales. The income
>was well over $30,000 representing 41% of total sales! (this does not
>include over 1000 I gave away)
Estimated sales of Aquarium fishes in Australia is around 15,000,000 plus
each year. Now lets see 29,897 rainbowfish sold errr... that's 0.002%.
Perhaps I was being too optimistic. Maybe native fish keeper represents less
than 0.01%.
Now, the floral industry, well they're laughing all the way to the bank and
it is certainly a more lucrative business and you don't have all these
"Academic Bureaucrats" barking at your door every day or the "Fish Police"
raiding your premisses as happen recently to a number of retailers and
wholesalers in Brisbane.
You should have taken my advise to go into the flower business ;-)
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
"Home of the Rainbowfish"
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
http://www.angfa.org/rainbowfish/home.htm
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