ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
This week I sat down with John Tyler from Selectpet — hobbyist, breeder, former fish store owner, club founder, and the guy who once drove 14 hours one way just to bring fish back to share with his local clubs. John's been through it: a 2005 house fire that melted his 55-gallon into a puddle of glass, dumping hundreds of feeder goldfish on the carpet in front of a shop full of customers, coming back to find his entire shipment of plecos had jumped tank overnight, and leaving a fill pipe running long enough that his fish room floor became a shallow pool with albino plecos swimming through it. We get into what he learned running a full-line pet store (including why he keeps one tank on a hang-on-back filter and how sponge filters save him $100 a month), his conservation work getting endangered Limia livebearers onto the CARES list, and why the Lexington club he started in 2019 — after other clubs said it would never make it — is his crowning achievement. Plus: someone once stole a $200 snake from his store in a McDonald's coffee cup. You're gonna want to hear this one.
