Re: What's the demand for high street planted aquarium shops
Well said stevec.. If you offer a good service, are passionate about what you are doing and know your stuff, you will find people to buy your kit.
James is right, keeping a handfull of plants is easy, but farming them in a large scale is other story.. but why farm them in a large scale? Could you just not speciallise in a certain type of plant? For example Rotala's, Amazon's, Java Ferns and Crypts? It will be hard work, but nothing worthwhile is easy, right?
You will work for yourself, and do it 24/7, no time off, no holidays for sure, but what you put in you will get back, right?
The main issue I think will be to do accounts, and sorting out the taxman, that will be an issue for sure.
Regarding buying from China.. Joking, joking, joking.. I would like my customers to come back to buy more kit, not to return faulty items in less than a year.. Obviously non mechanical materials are other story, a rock is a rock, you buy it in Japan or buy it in China, or pick it up at the Penines..