There are many fish lost that saddens me, in fact I've lost two species all together in the past 3 weeks,,,,, because I'm having a real long break from breeding fish due to the entirety of Perth lacking interest and my main sales channels to the east closed also shut down because common shipping prices went from $130 to $380 burning out most of my profit.
It's all these little stories that seem like no big deal, or like someone having a winge,,, but these are realistic facts and reasoning for our depletion of cichlids.
Cost to generate these fish do not match up with what shops and people are willing to pay for.
In history many many members from here made me extremely furious with their insight to this hobby should be about passion and sharing,,, yes true, but turn your head from bussiness ethics and profit versus loss, the entire scene collapses.
I even become more furious when the people that ripped shreds from me on here about selling to shops only and pricing, when I was trying to improve stability of the cichlids future in oz and knowing what it takes,,,,,, LOL, these people that said it should be all about passion and I suck because I won't do this or that,,,, have actually bloody given up fish keeping and I'll always be going till I'm dead (but obviously I'll always adjust myself to suit the market so I'm not running at a loss to give everyone fish)
AFRAID TO SAY PEOPLE, TO LATE,,,, it's already happening, I've had many people now express their views that Perth is showing strong signs now of heavy unrenewable depletion,,,,, their isn't even that level of passion left to bring or renew more fish from the east into Perth as depletion is taking place ten times faster than renewal if any.
