Help us support Liem’s Pet Shop Event at Aquarium Co-Op!

Saturday February 1st Aquarium Co-Op will be donating 25% of all sales to help Liem get his pet shop back up and running.

For those of you who don’t know, Christmas Eve there was a fire in the international district that has condemned Liem’s Pet Shop. Many thousands of fish perished due to loss of electricity. Our hearts go out to Liem and his family. We would like to help him get back on his feet but we need your help! 25% of what you spend in the store on Saturday will be donated to Liem.

Please SHARE this with anyone who you think would be interested. I’ll be updating as the event gets closer with any additional information. We will see you Saturday!

For more info and updates, check out the facebook events page. https://www.facebook.com/events/230523620404730/

I loved Liem's. Some of our koi are his and the snakeskin guppy genes in my colony are from him.

love his store as well as him, never did get my mogwai but either way I really would love to see him back in business his store will be a store I hope to take my kids to and the story of legends and the fact another store is willing to help just lends kudos them I cant make it this Saturday but I also plan to help however possible if it be donating time to set up tanks or whatever he needs.. I'd do the same for any other store in the same bind

Did he not have insurance , or anything that would help cover damages?!?!

Ill support this. See you Saturday!

Of course he had insurance. It is required by law for a retail business. They always give much less than the actual value of a fish. For instance, they may give him $1 for a $20 koi. Insurance never covers enough.

Actually live stock is not covered. I have a large insurance policy I carry at the Co-Op. However no one is willing to cover live stock. It's too easy to cook the books with it. Who's to say if that dead corpse is a feeder white cloud or a red arc pencil fish etc?

It's actually pretty sad. If a fire happened to my building. They will pay my salary for up to 30 days. If I don't have access to the building at all. The problem is they don't give me anything for the 50k in fish that die at the same time.

This is all required by law. All the insurances protect the customers, but don't do much for the business itself.

Exactly. All of my tanks and equipment are covered, and even if one of my tanks explodes and damages my carpet, sub flooring, sheet rock etc.... thats all covered as well. But like Cory said, no livestock. You can insure your cats and dogs but not your fish. I tried and looked everywhere, no such luck.

Eheim was generous enough to donate a Eheim Classic to the raffle. Tickets are $1 each, 6 for $5 , 30 for $20. Lots of great prizes. All proceeds go to Liem.

Madness wrote:Exactly.  All of my tanks and equipment are covered, and even if one of my tanks explodes and damages my carpet, sub flooring, sheet rock etc.... thats all covered as well.  But like Cory said, no livestock.  You can insure your cats and dogs but not your fish.  I tried and looked everywhere, no such luck.  

Never thought about insurance. In a new home now, perhaps I'll check it out. May not be a bad idea...

Aquarium Co-Op wrote:Eheim was generous enough to donate a Eheim Classic to the raffle. Tickets are $1 each, 6 for $5 , 30 for $20. Lots of great prizes. All proceeds go to Liem.

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fishNAbowl wrote:

Madness wrote:Exactly.  All of my tanks and equipment are covered, and even if one of my tanks explodes and damages my carpet, sub flooring, sheet rock etc.... thats all covered as well.  But like Cory said, no livestock.  You can insure your cats and dogs but not your fish.  I tried and looked everywhere, no such luck.  

Never thought about insurance. In a new home now, perhaps I'll check it out. May not be a bad idea...

Your homeowners insurance should cover all that I pointed out, if not you should be able to add to it.  My home owners with Allstate covers everything.

Hopefully a lot of us will hit Cory's this Saturday, myself included.

Isn't livestock conciderd "mercandise" a pet store would stock? I know folks with racing pigeons worth $1000.00s of dollars and have them insured like a racehorse.

Hoping to make it up for this

Are the racing pigeons insured by Loyds of London. They do that sort of thing?

Madness wrote:Exactly.  All of my tanks and equipment are covered, and even if one of my tanks explodes and damages my carpet, sub flooring, sheet rock etc.... thats all covered as well.  But like Cory said, no livestock.  You can insure your cats and dogs but not your fish.  I tried and looked everywhere, no such luck.  

My insurance company has the same stance... will not cover the livestock (fish)

You know, this sounds like a good chance for all you fish shop owners to get together and create your own insurance that you all buy into.

Okay everybody, its SATURDAY, who's all going to this fundraiser event?!?! I am going. Ive been to Liem's , he is very nice old guy. He got amusment of the wonder on my face when I point out what I thought was odd in his store. I believe his shop is his life , and he displays an interesting home feel vibe when I visit.

I'll be there.

I plan to get there sometime late afternoon as it is an all day event it seems. Not only for Liem's but for th Co-op after the big tank loss.

Oh boy, busy at the Co-Op today! Got my raffle tickets, anyone else get some?

I was there and spent just shy of $400. Some new and I must say awesome Finnex LEDs, 1 Planted + and 1 Ray2 7K. Also got me some Raff ticks, come n gallon of Florish!!

I got myself a couple of filters, eheim skimmer (a.k.a. duckweed trap) and a batch of raffle tix. Come on lucky # slevin! And good luck to Mr Liem. I want him to bring back his awesome betta selection!

MRTom wrote:I got myself a couple of filters, eheim skimmer (a.k.a. duckweed trap) and a batch of raffle tix. Come on lucky # slevin! And good luck to Mr Liem. I want him to bring back his awesome betta selection!

You jumped on the FW skimmer ? Nice!

It sure was awesome seeing you all there at the store
Looks like we managed to raise $1072.75 for Mr. Liem!! Couldn't have done it with all your support, everyone!

I'm sure Cory feels the same way, hopefully we'll hear from him as well.

Job well done guys. You needed a shoe horn at times.

thanks for all the great support. Enjoy the super bowl while we catch up at the store

Store looked amazing considering what your week was like! Came in and bought a new rimless, and turned it into a Betta Condo. He seems very happy! I'll post pics in a few..

Who won the raffle?

Raffle tickets were drawn out the night of the Fundraiser, and winning raffle numbers were posted on the Aquarium Co-Op Facebook Page:
(congrats to all the winners, btw!)

https://www.facebook.com/AquariumCoOp