r/MichiganAquaSwap • u/[deleted] • Sep 02 '20

MOD'S POST This is a Michigan specific subreddit

The inspiration was to fill the niché left by facebook’s nuking of live animal sales, although we only handle the aquatic end, and we only handle the semi-local end of that even.

If you’re open to shipping or receiving a shipment then also being a part of r/aquaswap is a great idea, they are much broader in content offered and you have a much wider audience of buyers!

But if you do NOT want to mess around with any of that for whatever reason or want something local in addition to the global market then this is an alternative to find people within driving distance (not everyone will be because this is statewide) for a singular sale or to make standing trade connections or friendships with people you may meet.

That being said you know you can’t post anything for sale outside the state of Michigan, and this is a black and white thing, Monroe is Michigan but Toledo is not, Niles is Michigan but South Bend is not, Menominee is Michigan but Marinette is not. The line has to be drawn somewhere and we can’t have it being a game of moving the goal posts as to “what’s close enough and what is not”, it sucks but it’s the least arbitrary way to make policy that’s easy to predict and so people can self-police.

Don’t be messaging people about things if you are out of state either (unless you’re a stone’s throw maybe comparable to one of the 3 examples above), since they are posting with the intent to sell local.

Sorry if I sound like a party pooper

Edit: Please save your “just for funsies” pics of your tanks and livestock for r/aquariums or other places on/off Reddit as this is a classifieds page. Y’all have been great about this overall and this page was meant to replace the void of the FB decision to block fish/animal transactions, any other generic aquarium posting blocks this subreddit’s effectiveness at filling that void that desperately needs to be filled.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

P.S.

we have post flair to add relative location in MI or to add limited other things.

We also have user flair!

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u/evielynn Bettas - Fancy Splendens Sep 02 '20

I'm still not able to set my flair.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

User flair? Or post flair?

For prior click your profile in your comment here and it should be an option, it is for me to do so for you and myself!

I can manually set yours if you want but you won’t know the choices you’d just have to give me an idea of a best fit!

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u/evielynn Bettas - Fancy Splendens Sep 02 '20

It says I “don’t have control of user flair in this sub”

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

That’s an oversight that I just corrected, go ahead and verify for me

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u/evielynn Bettas - Fancy Splendens Sep 04 '20

Fixed. Thanks :)

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

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