I’m still figuring out how I’m going to set up a planted aquarium, after last having goldfish as a kid about 30 years ago. So forgive my naivete!

On that other big social media site, there’s the AquaSwap community where I see a bunch of folks local to me in NYC are trading/selling/buying all manner of aquarium stuff (fish, plants, hardscape, more).

So for my friends on Lemmy: do you participate in trade with your local community? Where are they? Are they only on that other website…? Meetups? Mailing lists?

  • Slowy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    There are a few very active Facebook groups for freshwater fish/aquarium info and trades in my city where a lot of that goes on, and people go in together on larger direct fish orders. But not sure how that would work in a city as large as NYC.

  • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I hadn’t even thought of that. I mostly go to local shops and conventions. Store owners will sometimes either trade or give store credit if I want to bring in healthy plants/fish (if the fish are in demand, not all fish are).