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Aquatic Aquaman
 
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Aquatic Aquaman
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You have been nominated for a 2009 Fins Up
Resource Recognition Banner for your site, www.traccentral.org.
Our "Fins Up" program recognizes websites and blogs for
their effort in helping fish enthusiasts take better care of their
fish.
Simply place code for a "Vote for this Site" Fins Up Nominee
Banner on your site and tell your visitors
and friends to vote by clicking through. Nominated
sites who accrue the most votes from fellow fish hobbyists
will be personally reviewed by the program host,
Drs. Foster and Smith.
Remember, the more people you get to vote often throughout
2009 increases your chance of being presented a 2009
Paws Up Pet Resource Recognition Honor! Voting ends
December 31, 2009. Top-voted sites will be reviewed by
the Nomination Committee who will grant Fins Up Pet
Resource Recognition Honors to commendable sites by
January 31, 2010. Each top-voted site will receive a
banner to proudly display.
Congratulations on being nominated for your good work
in the fish hobby world.
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Aquatic Aquaman
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I've placed a Banner in this form and also on the home page. Please click and vote daily for TRAC.
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rogerstammy
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I voted!!
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BuK
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done and done
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Aquatic Aquaman
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Keep voting daily everyone gets one vote per day. I also added a banner to our banner rotation to so plenty of chances to get your vote in each day.
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rogerstammy
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is it done by computer or username? cuz I can vote 2 times if computer... LOL
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BuK
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i'm assuming it's by IP address. which averages out since dune and i share a computer
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RJS8540
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My vote is in.
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Aquatic Aquaman
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BuK said :
i'm assuming it's by IP address. which averages out since dune and i share a computer
Thats what I'm guessing too. But I can vote once from work and once from home! 
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Fish E
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I voted here at home and will do so at the office tomorrow!
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Aquatic Aquaman said :
BuK said :
i'm assuming it's by IP address. which averages out since dune and i share a computer
Thats what I'm guessing too. But I can vote once from work and once from home!
I have 6 computers at work...
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pundam
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I'm gonna try to get the rescue people to vote too.
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Mary
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voted times 3
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Quite an honor to even be mentioned!
Definitely will be voting daily.
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Economy too sour for Sweet Feed
Pet supplies store tries to hang on
By JON CHAVEZ
BLADE BUSINESS WRITER
The Sweet Feed Co., an independent pet supplies superstore chain in the Toledo area for 26 years, is struggling and may not survive the winter, one of its founders said Friday.
"We are going to try to hang in as long as we can. But in this economy, it is not looking too promising," said Sweet Feed vice president Jeff Tormoehlen, who with his siblings Doug and Lori Tormoehlen, founded the company in 1983.
A decade after its founding, Sweet Feed gained a reputation as a local-based pet supplies superstore that carried unique items and products not found at competitors' stores. Operating out of a store on Whiteford Center Road near Alexis Road, the company grew to add two more stores, in south Toledo and Oregon, employing 80 workers.
But in May, it closed the south Toledo store on Reynolds Road, and two weeks ago, it closed the Oregon store on Starr Avenue. All that remains is a Secor Road store in Lambertville that replaced the Whiteford Center Road store several years ago. The Lambertville store has a dozen workers.
"Our Lambertville store had a [horse] tack shop and we closed that down last year. That's been a dwindling market as many people cannot afford to keep or board horses," Mr. Tormoehlen said.
Customers who patronized the Oregon store have been showing up at the Lambertville store, which is encouraging, Mr. Tormoehlen said. But for the last few years, Sweet Feed lost its competitive edge and the recent recession has only made things more difficult, he added.
"What separated Sweet Feed from the chains is that we have built our business around products they didn't want to take on when they came into the market. These were new products and good products and we had a number of exclusive arrangements with the companies that made these products," Mr. Tormoehlen said. "But several of those companies were bought out by investment groups who wanted to put those products everywhere they could. We lost many of those exclusive arrangements and when our competition got ahold of those products, they used them as loss leaders to gain market share."
The economy, Mr. Tormoehlen added, has sharply curtailed customers' spending on pet supplies.
"Many of the extras people would look for before, like large bird cages, or even large birds, that part of the market has all but disappeared," he said. "Large aquarium setups or other high-ticket items, we have found that, in large part, people just aren't spending the money on those things. They are just gearing down."
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Thats too bad about Sweet Feed.. I use to go to there location in south toledo. They use to have a nice 9$ frag tank there I would raid frequently. Then one day they got rid of all their saltwater items.
Don't forget to Vote Today..
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I voted. I'm curious if we won if perhaps Dr. Foster and Smith would be interested in sponsoring us?
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Matt
75 Gallon Freshwater
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10 Cherry Red Shrimp tank
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RJS8540
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I got another vote in today.
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Aquatic Aquaman
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Don't forget to Vote Today!!!
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