ordering from "saltwaterfish.com"

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Has anyone ever heard of this company or ordered product from them? I was thinking about getting a cleaning crew from them since they have good prices and free shipping but wanted to see if anyone has had good or bad luck with them before.
Does anyone know of other online companies that are good to buy from that are reasonably priced?
Thanks
 
hey i just checked out the website you recommended but found that even if I build my own cleaning crew, they are still much more expensive then the guys at saltwaterfish.com. anyone else ever bought from saltwaterfish.com?
 
I bought from there and was pleased with the health and quality of the crew, but my one complaint is that I was new to saltwater and alot of the things they claimed to be reef safe that were included turned out not to be. They sold me a lobster that killed half the inverts in the tank before I got rid of him, and the scarlet crabs all killed each other.
 
Hi there. Thanks everyone for the recommendation.

Kpatrick, I went to that site and checked out their u build it packages and I am not sure just what you found I was much more expensive on? The only thing I saw that was cheaper was the serpent stars at $.03 cheaper than what I have them for. Everything else I offer in my clean up crews was more expensive. They also have a $75 min plus $4 fedex charge (never heard of this by fedex btw) so that's $79 for your order as opposed to spending $60.

Just wondering.
 
hey there phish,
why dont you add on a cleaner shrimp to the build it yourself? no one ever does that, sure do wish they did.
tren
 
JustPhish,
First let me say that you come well recommended and I appreciate the fact that you checked into this matter with me. To answer your question about saltwaterfish.com, they have a package called "The Big 20 BONUS PACK" for $69.99 with free shipping.

This pack includes:
20-scarlet reef hermits
30-blue leg hermits
20-turbo snails
2 emerald crabs

They recommend this for a 55 gallons or higher and I have a 125.
I priced the items seperately on your site and found that it would cost me more for the same package if I went with JustPhish. I could of added wrong or missed something but I will go back out to your site and check it out again to double check myself. If you are comparable then I would have no problem at all buying from your company especially since you did take the time to write and since I havent heard any complaints from other people about you.

Thanks
 
Heedicus, thanks for the suggestion. The problem is, in order to offer something with a clean up crew which include free shipping, I have to buy it for a good enough price that I can afford to work the cost of shipping it and still come out ahead. At $12 for a cleaner, I don't make enough to also ship it for free.

Right now my crews are hit or miss. Sometimes I'm ahead, sometimes I'm behind. I believe in the end it will average out in my favor, but we'll see. In the meantime they bring me a lot of exposure so I can justify the loss as advertising expense.


Kpatrick, I thought you had said you were looking at their U-build it versus mine which is why I was confused.

Comparing their packages to my packages can't really be done because they aren't the same. You also can't compare their packages to my build your own and vice versa because the costs are different between prebuilt and build your own. For example my package 6 would cost you $213 if you built it yourself.

They also have an advantage in that they are close enough they can pick up their clean up crew critters locally where I have to pay shipping to get them up here to the Northeast. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to hear they collect the critters themselves which is just another advantage.

I understand what you're saying now. The much more expensive comment is what threw me off because I just don't see that.

HTH
 
Hey Justphish, I've been pondering odering from your site but the lack of a "stay alive" policy has keep me browsing... Marine Depot offers a 7 day stay alive, as does Live Aquaria and many others... Is this something you intend to add in the near future (say the next month...) or will it remain only live arrival as it is now?

btw, I looked at the cleaner packages and I found them to be well thought out and balanced... Live Aquaria used to offer some that included things such as arrow crabs or coral banded shrimp with other shrimp... I wrote them and now they have less conflicting contents in them... Wouldn't have been so bad if they would have let you remove some items, but they were dead locked...
 
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