im looking for a good place to buy stuff online

[fish4lyfe]

I'm looking for a online store that sells corals and fish, and they are very good with shipping and the fish are always healthy when shipped.

[jonbry123]

I would recommend either coral reef farm in FL or Petsolutions in Ohio. Have bought from both and always had excellent animals and service.

Scott

[fish4lyfe]

thats a pretty long ship to texas, i might want to go with something closer. also please provide website when you post

[fish4lyfe]

Please anyone?

[jonbry123]

www.coralreeffarm.com and petsolutions.com. I live in Pa. with Petsolutions the fish/corals actually come from CA. Unless your willing and able to travel to an online company you really won't have a choice. The animals are shipped overnight air right to your door. With Petsolutions for example if you place your order before I believe it is 12PM EST you'll have your fish/corals the next day by 10AM. There's a lot of bad online company's out there I don't wish to bad mouth anyone so I'm only giving you two company's I've dealt with that have always had great and healthy fish/corals. Also Petsolutions offers a 14 day guarantee on their livestock CRF's doesn't but often carries rarer varieties of great fish. Good luck.

[mg426]

www.liveaquaria.com is awesome to deal with.

[fish4lyfe]

thanks

[fish4lyfe]

woah i just went there i tried to order a peppermint shrimp and the shipping was 45 dollars

[phenom5]

Based solely on my own experience. Parenthesis are what I've ordered.

LiveAquaria (http://www.liveaquaria.com/) (Corals, Snails, & Crabs)

MarineDepotLive (http://www.marinedepotlive.com/) (Snails & Crabs)

Yourreef (http://www.yourreef.com/) (Corals)

Dr Macs (http://www.pacificeastaquaculture.com/) (Corals)

Fragglereef (http://www.fragglereef.com/zen/) (Corals)

PremiumAquatics (http://www.premiumaquaticslive.com/) (Live Rock)

Hope this helps :thumbsup:

[jonbry123]

Oh yeah if your going to order this way you definitely want to order quite a bit more than one shrimp. Petsolutions and Coral Reef Farm ship for free if ordering more than 250.00 at least the last time I went to their websites. If you don't find what your looking for at your LFS and don't want to order that much in animals I would suggest seeing if you have some friends who might want to go in with you together to cover the 250.00.

[jsr]

Online order are expensive unless you order several live critters. If you are looking for a shrimp, snails, crabs, etc., check the local stores. Check out River City, AquaTek, Horizon, even Gallery of Pets . I have bought from all of those and never had issues.

[fish4lyfe]

jsr you got any frags up for sell?

[rjsilvers]

I second Dr. Macs (http://www.drmaccorals.com/) .

They are in Maryland but they shipped overnight to Nevada no problem. Excellent packing + two heat packs kept everything nice and toasty.

They have a flat rate shipping so you can order as much as you want. For me they shipped out next day.

My experience with LiveAquaria is that they say they ship in 24 hours... But they mean 24 business hours so it takes them 3 days to ship out dry goods/equipment and usually 2 days for livestock.

Edit: Forgot to mention the LiveAquaria box that my rock came in... The styrofoam was very thin and had cracked in a bunch of places and the water had all but leaked out. The shipping box was actually soggy when it got to my door.

[jsr]

Sorry, no frags. I am currently a FOWLR guy with no fish. I am slowly taking the tank down so I can redo the plumbing, paint the back, remove the rock, and add new rock.

[fish4lyfe]

okay, then ingore that pm i sent lol

[phenom5]

I gotta second what jonbry & jsr said. If your making online purchases, you get more for your money the more you order. Gotta look at it from a price per frag/ shrimp/ crab/ snail/ fish.

[tbundy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11781591#post11781591 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jonbry123
www.coralreeffarm.com and petsolutions.com. I live in Pa. with Petsolutions the fish/corals actually come from CA. Unless your willing and able to travel to an online company you really won't have a choice. The animals are shipped overnight air right to your door. With Petsolutions for example if you place your order before I believe it is 12PM EST you'll have your fish/corals the next day by 10AM. There's a lot of bad online company's out there I don't wish to bad mouth anyone so I'm only giving you two company's I've dealt with that have always had great and healthy fish/corals. Also Petsolutions offers a 14 day guarantee on their livestock CRF's doesn't but often carries rarer varieties of great fish. Good luck.

Jonbry...Have you tried www.toofishy.com ? They are right in your back yard.

[intenseimage]

^ Something Fishy (toofishy.com) is just blocks from my house ... great store

[tbundy]

Yeah it is great.. im there every other weekend.. its awesome to see the store where the stuff gets shipped from before you buy from them

[drillsar]

liveaquaria.com is great to deal with, petsolutions as well.

See if your reefclub anyone wants to order so you can share the shipping costs

[fish4lyfe]

looking for place that takes paypal

[tbundy]

www.toofishy.com takes paypal

[vr697getta]

i get most of my corals of off ebay i also got lucky and found a bunch that are local and that saves alot on shipping a few of those sellers even have an ebay link for there auction

[jsr]

Just curious....why PayPal? That has to be linked to an account with money in it. Assuming this is a bank account, why cant you just take the money from there and buy local? Granted, I don't know the financial situation nor do I want to know. I always try to support my "good" local fish stores. There are a few in Austin that really know what they are talking about.