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?
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).
I noticed that Aquarium Co-op has a buy/sell/trade forum but they specifically only allow fish/invertebrates (no plants or decor) because they don’t want to mess with their core business.
https://forum.aquariumcoop.com/forum/19-fish-swap-buyselltrade/