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Three, salt, energy consumption and time are all consuming money, if you are a business, you write this off on your taxes.
I understand it's not cheap for the initial setup, but once everything is in place and operational the costs would subside. If it is that ruff for you financially, then just like any other business that can't compete, close shop, or you could just move to another country, employ cheap sweat labor and have the financial freedom you desire. And yes there is plenty of greed floating around. I just bought a frag from a homegrown local for $25. I searched all over the net for this same piece and the cheapest I found was $75 for half the size of what I received.
This statement makes no sense. You are basically saying because you write things off it doesn't count as expenses? Sure you only pay taxes on your net profit, however if profits don't exceed expenses you don't make any money.
Three, salt, energy consumption and time are all consuming money, if you are a business, you write this off on your taxes
I fully agree with you... there's just no way to compete. I know of a couple "aquaculture facilities" that used to grow 80% + of their coral live stock, yet as of late have done a one-eighty and become a chop-shop.To go through all of this and then have to compete with a vendor who buys a wild colony, chops it up the next day, labels it as aquacultured and sells it for a price competitive with wild corals really takes the wind out of my sails. IMO hobbiests should be more critical of what they buy and demand more for their money.