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Algae Barn - Shipping tiny Peppermint shrimp.

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Ordered 2x 3 each peppermint shrimp. $32 each... that's 6 for $64. I paid overnight, an additional $45. Expensive, but the other option was free 3 day shipping. On live shrimp? In this heat? It'd be shrimp soup.

Received 2 of the trademark pint plastic jars -w- tin lids, plastic heat sealed under the lid. Bit of plastic mesh in each jar to help with stress during shipment. Cool pack, well insulated... arrived before 11am. So far so good.

Started looking at the shrimp. Not so great. Doesn't say anything about size, but these are tiny. Biggest two are maybe 3/8". Smallest two could have been brine shrimp. Seriously. I had to get my reading glasses to even spot the little specs in the jar. Very likely they didn't make it through the first couple of hours in the tank. I acclimated them, released them while I was feeding the fish... saw at least a couple of them make the rocks, but I'm fairly convinced that I'll never see any of them again. Snack food... that's what I got. A one hundred dollar fishy snack.

Ad says "These peppermint shrimp are captive-bred, completely reef-safe, and will consume nuisance Aiptasia anemones." Guaranteed 100% arrive alive.

Gonna be tough to consume aiptasia after they've been eaten. Not like I've got a bunch of active shrimp hunting fish, I don't, but seriously. There's not a fish in the sea that wouldn't eat a little morsel like these. I'm quite unhappy. Waste of a hundred bucks. I understand not getting all full grown adults, but we're not talking juveniles here, we're talking nauplii.
 
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5 days, no response? Not even worth commenting on?

Where you at, @AlgaeBarn ?
 
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Though I never got a response here, Algae Barn gave me store credit for the tiny shrimp they shipped me. Not ideal, but it's something.
 

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Though I never got a response here, Algae Barn gave me store credit for the tiny shrimp they shipped me. Not ideal, but it's something.
Hi there! I do apologize we missed your notification. We do have shipping sizes listed on all of our inverts and fish under the care requirements for that animal. If you ever have an issue please send us a DM and we would be happy to get you taken care of! :)
 
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