ArowanaLover1902
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Let me start with an introduction: My team is two college students (may be more students later) working from college. We have created an invention we intend to enter in a competition hosted by our college (we will post info on the competition date later). If we win the prize is $10,000 for our business. Our end goal is to not only sell our product, but also patent it (hopefully by the end of 2019).
Our team has created an invention that we hope will revolutionize the keeping of dragonets and later, seahorses and pipefish. We started an initial thread to access the market of the invention and see if there was a genuine desire for our product. We saw that a lot of people really liked our idea and we are going to start testing asap.
Our main goal is to help the mandarin population in general, it seems to us that many mandarins are needlessly killed by beginners to the hobby who buy them impulsively under advice from their LFS. We want to connect the idea of the use of our product with the idea of buying a mandarin so that mandarins have a better chance of success. At the moment we hope that the product can work at sustaining a mandarin in a 10 gallon tank (note: we do not want to discuss the size of the tank chosen other than saying that we feel that in many cases, mandarins will be kept in 10 gallon tanks, whether or not this is right for this fish is irrelevant to our product, we are trying to make it BETTER for them, we can't control every aquarist in the world).
We hope our invention can make keeping a long term mandarin as easy as keeping a clownfish for the average reefer.
This thread will be a record of our experiments with the mandarin and its relation to our invention. We will start with an assessment of whether or not our invention can work in a 10 gallon aquarium, if it fails to do so, then we will redesign and start from a 20 gallon. We will not be posting many pictures in this thread as we our keeping our invention a secret as it may have to be redesigned several times. Hopefully we can get the tank setup within the week. I'm the aquarist of the group and the one who will be taking care of the tank, so I plan on using a current USA orbit marine, a simple HOB filter, and a bit of live rock, we don't really need a powerful filter as there will be no coral and only a single mandarin in the tank.
This thread will not be used to sell our products, but rather to keep the public informed about our process. Please do not post comments regarding how you take care of mandarins here, or I will ask a moderator to have it removed as it is irrelevant to our study. We hope to keep this thread as scholarly as possible while also interacting with you, the public, as much as possible. Feel free to post any well wishes, concerns, and questions you have, we love to see that the public is interested.
Here is a link to the initial thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/would-you-keep-a-mandarin.471470/page-6#post-5226177. We look forward to hearing from you guys and to making the right product for you and the dragonets!
Our team has created an invention that we hope will revolutionize the keeping of dragonets and later, seahorses and pipefish. We started an initial thread to access the market of the invention and see if there was a genuine desire for our product. We saw that a lot of people really liked our idea and we are going to start testing asap.
Our main goal is to help the mandarin population in general, it seems to us that many mandarins are needlessly killed by beginners to the hobby who buy them impulsively under advice from their LFS. We want to connect the idea of the use of our product with the idea of buying a mandarin so that mandarins have a better chance of success. At the moment we hope that the product can work at sustaining a mandarin in a 10 gallon tank (note: we do not want to discuss the size of the tank chosen other than saying that we feel that in many cases, mandarins will be kept in 10 gallon tanks, whether or not this is right for this fish is irrelevant to our product, we are trying to make it BETTER for them, we can't control every aquarist in the world).
We hope our invention can make keeping a long term mandarin as easy as keeping a clownfish for the average reefer.
This thread will be a record of our experiments with the mandarin and its relation to our invention. We will start with an assessment of whether or not our invention can work in a 10 gallon aquarium, if it fails to do so, then we will redesign and start from a 20 gallon. We will not be posting many pictures in this thread as we our keeping our invention a secret as it may have to be redesigned several times. Hopefully we can get the tank setup within the week. I'm the aquarist of the group and the one who will be taking care of the tank, so I plan on using a current USA orbit marine, a simple HOB filter, and a bit of live rock, we don't really need a powerful filter as there will be no coral and only a single mandarin in the tank.
This thread will not be used to sell our products, but rather to keep the public informed about our process. Please do not post comments regarding how you take care of mandarins here, or I will ask a moderator to have it removed as it is irrelevant to our study. We hope to keep this thread as scholarly as possible while also interacting with you, the public, as much as possible. Feel free to post any well wishes, concerns, and questions you have, we love to see that the public is interested.
Here is a link to the initial thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/would-you-keep-a-mandarin.471470/page-6#post-5226177. We look forward to hearing from you guys and to making the right product for you and the dragonets!
