1st post, and I'm looking for advice about a product.

I’m going to be honest. I’m an aquarium enthusiast who has been using a device I call an Aqua-Bridge for years. It’s an above the tank bridge for fish to swim through. I think the device is awesome, everyone who comes over and see’s the device thinks so too. I just started a side business making these devices and trying to sell them, but I am not having any luck. My site has been open for 6 months and I’ve sold about 4 of them. I’m really not trying to spam this board, I’m really looking for advise. I’ve advertised exclusively through the Internet, and maybe that’s part of my problem. But I also put them up for sale on Ebay and I seem to get either no bids, or one bid (which is good because it’s a sale, but pretty much at cost because of the low starting price). Anyway, perhaps the product is stupid, unattractive, priced too high? Like I said, I’d like to do a service and provide what I think is a cool product, but it just does not seem to be going anywhere. Any advise would be helpful.

I hesitate to provide a link because I’m really not looking to push the product on this forum, but if you are so inclined, a search for aqua-bridge on ebay will pop it up.

It's just like a siphon, a very large siphon, so essentially the water level is exactly even between the two tanks. I have one beween my 120 gal tank and a 60 gal tank, for Freshwater. Then I have one beween two Marine Tanks. My Marine fish love to travel beween the tanks, in one of the tanks I have all my coral and its good and lighted. In the other I have a large crab (the kiind with the anemone on its back, it's big and terrorize my corals I'm sure). So, it's kinda cool to see the fish with their freedom, snails also travel through the bridge, heck I've had a large Bubble Anemone also go through it (Clown fish battle ensued), and the crab being stuck in his tank.

Oh, my sump drains from one tank and pumps back into the other, so there's actually a flow through the bridge, but the flow is not necessary.

Thanks guys.

Yep, I think you're right EQ. I was thinking about advertising in a Magazine, I have not called yet to find pricing, but I'm thinking it'll be expensive. Any suggestions on the best Magazine to try to advertise this device in?

I also thought about aproaching local pet shops, but what I wanted to do is feel out the consumer desire for something like this before I committed to some of those additional expenses and effort. I supose a display at a local pet shop whould be my next step to check out consumer reaction. I thought I'd be able to see some consumer reaction on the net when I put up my site, but it's hard enough just getting an ebay feedback from the 4 buyers I've had.

An angle in showing an advantage for this product is "don't upgrade your tank, just get another and connect them together with this bridge". But I do see your point about people not already having tanks setup side by side FL K...

I thank all of you for your help. This is exactly the kinda discussion I was hoping for. I wasn't trying to hawk product.

One more question.

Could my issue be that people don't understand that the device really works. I've had a few people just not understand how the water stays up inside the bridge. They actually did not believe their was water in it. But it's completely obvious to me. And I would think that it is also obvious to anyone who owns an aquarium and has filled a siphon. Am I wrong?