Start Your Own Tropical Fish Store

Tropical fish stores can be a great small scale start up business for anyone who likes to start a business as well as for those that have a liking towards tropical fish. Tropical fish stores are quite an entertaining and interesting topic to study and even as a hobby there are many people around the world that spend hours devoting to the care, building and maintaining of their aquariums. Before owning a tropical fish store you must come up with a perfect business plan that will ensure you do not get into financial problems during the business startup. If you follow a careful and methodical plan of business owning a tropical fish store would be a wonderful and rewarding experience.

First of all you must select the area where your tropical fish store would be located. Make sure that you choose a strategic location where the population density will benefit your sales at the tropical fish store and it should be an accessible area which is accessible by both walking and driving. Is it accessible to delivery trucks? Are there plenty of parking spaces for customers?

The thing with a tropical fish store is that you cannot expect to start making profits from the word go. You will have to wait a few years managing on a minimal income until the tropical fish store has made a name for itself and the store’s rent and other business changes involved, it is safe to say it’ll take a couple of years to finally start covering the cost of having set up the tropical fish store. Of course, sometimes, it will work out faster and if it does, then great!

You will need to obtain licensing for opening and operating a tropical fish store and for these licenses there are applications that you must get from the local state Department of Agriculture for tropical fish stores. The Department of Agriculture will send along a representative to gauge your ability to maintain a tropical fish store, check with your local state for their requirements of operating a tropical fish store. It varies from state to state.

After that do your research on various types of fish for your tropical fish store. Different species of fish will require different methods of looking after such as water temperature and the flora in the tank. Know what kind of aquariums can be obtained, freshwater or saltwater? Which kinds of fish can be kept in each? What about fish food? Remember that the type of fish food that work for certain fish will be poisonous to the others. Thoroughly research the type of fish and the conditions that they require before you decide on purchasing them for your tropical fish store.