expensive fish

hello all,
      just pondering through some old chat sites
and thought i would respond to some of the
remarks left by fish keepers,as everyone in this
business knows,you will never please everyone
so the two negative remarks i have found i will
not respond to,however the biggest gripe you
seem to have[or some people have]is the cost of
Japanese fish,the actual cost of these has doubled
in the last few years and it is not down to the
breeders like ourselves they have no control over
the value of the pound,5yrs ago we where getting
220 to the pound,now we are getting 120 to the
 pound,and as freight is paid in yen you can see
where the cost is.
   one of the remarks from our survey is why don't
we do Israeli koi,like we used to,well the answer
is for next year we will bring some in,it is fair to say
when we used to bring them in they where very
nice fish for the money,so due to request we will
try and see if the demand is there,yes due to exch
values and shipping costs they will be a lot cheaper
but as we will not buy lower quality fish we cannot
say what the cost difference will be so watch this
space,
  we are also bringing into play a limited amount of
pet supplies into the store[again due to results of the
survey]so if there is anything in particular you would
like please ask,
  as winter is well and truly around the corner lets
see if next year we can bring some common sense
back into koi keeping,and lets buy fish because we
like them and not because the so called experts say
that is the style or pattern you should be buying,
hope to be a bit more regular with the blog from now
on but there again i never seem to have much time,
that freight train called life just seems to get faster and
faster,and i blink and 3 weeks has passed,
  regards to you all,
      paul teesside koi

is that it

hi all,
it looks as if our summer is well and truly over,
with the first heavy frosts on us it can only get
colder,dare i say hopefully next year is better
mind didnt i say that last year,well lets hope the
winter is not as cold or long like the last one,we
like most of you in the northeast did not seem to
get our ponds past the upper 60s but the plus side
is our fish have seemed to put on a lot of body
weight so i suppose they are ready for the winter,
if you have not cleaned your filter systems out yet
it might be prudent to do it know,it might be our
 last chance before the weather gets to bad,and if
 you have covers best get them on now,we are
about to give the shop a facelift so if you do call in
and see the organised chaos please be patient,it
will be worth it,we need to create more space and
i do not want to reduce the number of koi ponds we
have,so need to utilise the space more effectivly,
good luck and look forward to seeing you all
through the winter for a chat,
kind regards
teesside koi

oh dear the pro has spoken

well well well!the pro has spoken once again
and pointed the finger at the wrong person again,
I no longer need the tablets because i get the
injection every six months and i get at least three
reminders before my doctor collars me in the shop
so i cant forget the injection,so my memory is like
 it was ten yrs ago,and the wobbly hand shaking
had nothing to do with me they belonged to the
son who is half my age so its about time he got his
facts right,i would have wrote this blog sooner but
when i went to the trade show i left my laptop at
home so this was the earliest i could respond
and while i am on, up to now the results for the
 poll are no 1 is pet supplies and no 2 is marines
but trailing in the distance is reptiles,so please keep
 the feedback coming,
regards paul
teesside koi

These old folk

O dear it really is a tell tale sign of old age when you start to moan and point the finger at other people for your own mistakes not to mention the terrible hand control of the video footage which looked like it had been shot during an earthquake. It's ok paul i will bring your medicine round later.

that web developer again

hello again,
              as most of you already know how i abound with
technical know how,and there are few people that can
keep up with my fantastic computer abilities i was surprised
to find that neil[our technical expert ]once again cannot keep
up with the pace of our website progress.
he has for some time asked us to forward some videos of
our fish to him,so at a great deal of my valuable time,i put
the videos on a memory stick for him and got the son to
drop it off at the house for him,as this is much quicker than
emailing them over to him and i felt that the 4500 emails
would take him some time to sift through,i then get an email
saying that the file numbers did not match the files i put on the
memory stick,so i sent him a copy of the encyclopedia of
tropical fish over making it clear that the 2500 page book
covered all the fish varieties we sent to him and he could
easily identify all the types and can put them on u tube and
facebook,that should stop him putting obstickles in the way
again,
regards paul
teesside koi

results of 2nd week survey

hi all,
      sorry about delay in publishing results
of 2nd weeks survey,here they are.

no of forms returned-49
no of votes
reptiles 9
pet supplies 25
marines 14
please keep them coming,we are about to
start our store revamp and your feedback
is important,so please voice your views
regards paul
teessidekoi

new tropical fish and aquatic turtle shipment

hello all,
           just to let you know our next tropical fish arrivals are on wed,this includes our first shipment of aquatic turtles because of the number of people requesting them,the results of our instore survey have just been completed for the first week and here are the results,
no of returned forms 45
no of votes for marines 23
no of votes for reptiles 11
no of votes for pet supplies 45
so up to now the vote seems to be for pet dry goods,we will run this survey for 4 weeks and will take action on the winning votes in the store upgrade which we hope to start in october and hopefully be completed in time for the new year,
regards teesside koi