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Old 22-06-2007, 08:48 PM posted to rec.ponds.moderated
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Default Price advice needed

It's time to do some fish culling and also get rid of some of the water
hyacinth that is rapidly taking over the pond, so I thought I'd have a
pond sale instead of a yard sale.

I was thinking of charging $1 a plant for water hyacinth (which is hard
to get since we can't import it into Arizona), sell some of my miniature
water lettuce at 4 for $1, and bundles of rooted parrots feather for 5
pieces for $1. Does this seem reasonable? Too high? Too low?

As for fish, these are just common goldfish, last year's fry who are now
about 5" long. Maybe $3 each? I'm really at sea here. We're at least 115
miles from the nearest LFS or PetSmart so it's not as if people could
just hop in their cars and bring home fish half an hour later. I've got
at least 25 I'd like to find new homes for but I'm reluctant to just
give them away.

Any advice will be appreciated. The sale is tomorrow (Saturday).

Gabrielle in southern Arizona
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