After a few years of enjoying my discus, I have decided to sell up. In the past few years I've enjoyed up to 10 in my tank and got to the point (a year or so back) where I had a female breeding (actually, with three males at the same time, all in concert - that surprised me!). I had free swimmers but never got past that stage, unfortunately.
Anyway, life's other committments have taken over and I need to sell now. I have a 72 gallon bowfront tank (black) with a nice hood, etc and which is very attractive (as the centerpiece of our living room). I currently have three discus in the tank (all adults, although one has been "stunted" all his life - he is probably 3+ years old).
One nice feature (for my own situation, at least) is that I built a "rig" I build whereby I pull a long tube from a tank in the garage to the fish tank and have pumps at each end to handle a water change. The same rig fills up the water tank from the tap (where it ages) before the next water change. No more back breaking lifting of buckets or the like :-)
I have probably paid $1,000 for all the bits an pieces (excluding the discus) and I'm going to write it all up and post on Craigslist. But I'd appreciate any advice on whether it's best to sell the fish first or attempt to sell as a complete unit with the fish, mature filters, etc. I'm thinking that around $650 might be decent price but really don't know how to price this.
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Mark
Anyway, life's other committments have taken over and I need to sell now. I have a 72 gallon bowfront tank (black) with a nice hood, etc and which is very attractive (as the centerpiece of our living room). I currently have three discus in the tank (all adults, although one has been "stunted" all his life - he is probably 3+ years old).
One nice feature (for my own situation, at least) is that I built a "rig" I build whereby I pull a long tube from a tank in the garage to the fish tank and have pumps at each end to handle a water change. The same rig fills up the water tank from the tap (where it ages) before the next water change. No more back breaking lifting of buckets or the like :-)
I have probably paid $1,000 for all the bits an pieces (excluding the discus) and I'm going to write it all up and post on Craigslist. But I'd appreciate any advice on whether it's best to sell the fish first or attempt to sell as a complete unit with the fish, mature filters, etc. I'm thinking that around $650 might be decent price but really don't know how to price this.
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Mark
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