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[Question] where do you find friends to trade/swap aquarium stuff? (lemmy.world)

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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?

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[–] Oni_eyes 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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/