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And now...A word from your sponsor

Glad you are putting it to good use. We would love to see!



Yeah wow. $108 + tax + shipping, they should make it better for the price, like with high clarity glass or something. I guess the popularity drove prices up. That is the downside of this thread. Have gotten so many new members of the club since this and because of it now, it's more expensive for everyone

They should give us discounts!!!

Hello!

Name is John, I represent the North American distributor for Mr. Aqua. We will be sponsoring PlantedTank.net! (Should be up in a couple days) I was reading through the site and specifically this thread of course. MarineDepot did raise their prices, however it is not related to any pricing on our part, only their costs to carry and provide the product for you. However I will be talking to them and see if we can get the 12 gallon long below $100 for the cost of the tank. Thank you for posting this. Any comments are appreciated and I will do my best personally to make our customers as happy as possible. FYI, even though our tanks are great in quality, we are going to be producing and increasing the quality of our tanks even more. We are implementing higher standards for our tanks produced and will keep our low cost. (We don't all need the illusion of quality through high prices). We are hoping to start producing a Low Iron version of the 12 gallon long soon but so far it has been an issue with cost that has slowed that progress down. I am very happy and excited by the club you made here, I personally have been going through it for a while. I have been in the hobby for over 10 years professionally and am ready and willing to help you guys whenever I can. Consider me your guy on the inside.


John Lankford
Distribution Manager
Sevenports Inc.

 

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Problem Fixed!

Hello!

Name is John, I represent the North American distributor for Mr. Aqua. We will be sponsoring PlantedTank.net! (Should be up in a couple days) I was reading through the site and specifically this thread of course. MarineDepot did raise their prices, however it is not related to any pricing on our part, only their costs to carry and provide the product for you. However I will be talking to them and see if we can get the 12 gallon long below $100 for the cost of the tank. Thank you for posting this. Any comments are appreciated and I will do my best personally to make our customers as happy as possible. FYI, even though our tanks are great in quality, we are going to be producing and increasing the quality of our tanks even more. We are implementing higher standards for our tanks produced and will keep our low cost. (We don't all need the illusion of quality through high prices). We are hoping to start producing a Low Iron version of the 12 gallon long soon but so far it has been an issue with cost that has slowed that progress down. I am very happy and excited by the club you made here, I personally have been going through it for a while. I have been in the hobby for over 10 years professionally and am ready and willing to help you guys whenever I can. Consider me your guy on the inside.


John Lankford
Distribution Manager
Sevenports Inc.

Hello again,

Well I have some good news for you! I talked to MarineDepot and expressed your guys concern about the price and they said it jumped as a weekly price comparison. They said they will revert back to the $71.99 price they previously had it at for you guys. So hopefully that should be up soon. Like I said, any more concerns please let me know and I will do my best to help you. GL!


John

 

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Amazing and wonderful! Thanks for looking out.

I am just mad at you guys a little bit because I thought I had reached my tank limit. And now I will absolutely have to buy a low iron 12g long as soon as it is available.

Haha, yeah well I know how you feel. I have a storage unit full of aquarium stuff. This is by far our most popular tank so we want to make it in LI but like I said we are just trying to work out the cost. Right now the cost is just to high we feel. We want to give our customers a fighting chance at a good price and not just charge a lot of money because we can. I am currently in the middle of building two tanks myself.

John

 

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BTW, not sure if you guys were aware, but we now make a 1.5, 3, and 6
gallon (12", 18", 24") version of the 12 gallon long. Its out there, go find it

 

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Where can I buy a 12g long?? Quick Google search turned up nothing but tank journals across various forums -_-

You can try our website also to see if someone close to you carries it.

http://www.sevenports.com go to the retail location section

Online there is only Amazon and Marine Depot

 

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Just got my 6 gallon up and running last weekend! It is going to be a brackish opae ula tank. I am really glad you guys offer this footprint.

Ohh sweet, would love to see some pics.

 

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thanks guys!!






Yea I actually just called today during my lunch break. They carry it for $70

That is a pretty good deal.....

 

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Good to hear, looked like gouging to me at the higher price. The price of the smaller "long" tanks seems to have come down to reality as well if I recall correctly.

Yeah the original price of the small bookshelf tanks was a mistake and we had them correct it.

 

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Good man! I have two Mr. Aqua tanks, a 17.1 gallon rectangle and a LI 25 gallon cube, and will be back for more!

We are actaully going to be making more tanks in LI also. We have the 830 and 821 coming in LI. Our bigger tanks.

 

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Welcome John! Show us your 12g tank

Haha, in time. I am working on a bunch of other tanks right now. Trying to get some decent rock for it right now.

 

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I'd like to join the club! Unfortunately UPS delivered mine in more than one piece..

Thankfully Marinedepot already has a replacement shipped, I'll be really sad if this one doesn't survive.

Man, UPS. They sure know how to break things right?

 

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Nice set up!

 

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I put this on our sponsor thread but just wanted to let you guys know. We will be finally bringing in a Low Iron version of the 12 gallon long. We will be getting them in next month and they will go out to all our various retailers soon after that. Green Leaf and Marine Depot should be carrying them so keep an eye out.

 

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Awesome new club graphic!

I don't know if you guys and gals saw but the new low iron 12 gallon longs are in. Should be up on MarineDepot's site this week and they are already up in stores in Oregon and Washington.

 

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12 gallon longs are coming in this week. I posted it on our thread so make sure you check for shipment updates there. Those of you who have ordered from MarineDepot, your tank should be going out in like a week or two.

 

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Does this apply to Canadian Retailers too? Do you supply to any in Canada?

Yes it does apply to them as well. Although I think a couple we just sent shipments out to. But they may be reordering soon.

 

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Just fixed my 12G Club logo in my signature..lol. My Sevenports logo was too big and was forcing the 12G logo down and cutting it in half. Had to resize my SP logo. All good now

 

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To all of you waiting for your 12g, I am sending out to MarineDepot 61 of them today so they should have them by tomorrow. Sorry for the wait!

 

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Any chance you will be releasing tall versions of shelf tanks?

A 12G at 12 inches tall is a 17G.

A 48x12x12 is a 30G.

I guess all you need is a demand for them.

I don't think you can plan on a 48" long one coming out anytime soon. But a 36" seems doable, though there are no plans for it as of right now.

 

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Mr Aqua is the only company making the book case tanks like this. GLA used to have a 12 long of their own, but since they no longer make this tank, this is the only one.

We made it for them.