Buying online

[Cope]

Hello everyone, I was wondering where the best place to buy fish/clean up crews are online?

Thank you

 

[BarbH]

For buying your cuc I would highly recommend checking out www.reefcleaners.org they are great to deal with and will hook you on up.

 

[aherre07]

I like to buy fish online from Kevin at Pacific Island Aquatics. Always shipped very well and great looking fish! Reefcleaners are great for cuc, I also use liveaquaria. Buy $60.00 worth and you get free shipping always a +.

 

[Mufasa31]

+1 for reefcleaners.org

the guy will definitely take care of you

 

[Ace25]

I have ordered from reefcleaners and reefs2go several times, the stuff you get is micro size, so to me their packs labeled as "100G CUC" is really only suitable for 50G tops. I gave up trying after spending hundreds of dollars with online CUCs. I would rather spend $15 for 5 crabs or snails from my LFS because they are giants in comparison to what I have received online, and the 5 items from my LFS out compete 50 of the same item from online places (ie. 5 large snails do much more cleaning than 50 microscopic snails). Last time I dumped $120 worth of snails, crabs, and shrimp (12 peppermints, not 1 touch aiptasia) from reefcleaners into my 60G, all the snails sit at the top of the glass/tank in the corner, 6 months later and never seem to move or cleaned anything. The amount they say they will send is good, and they arrive alive and are active after a 3 hours drip acclicmation, so nothing wrong in that respect, just the micro size specimens is my biggest gripe with online vendors of CUCs.

Fish.. there are good places, but not cheap. Shipping is the killer on top of the cost of the fish, which in my area online prices are 2-3x more expensive for the same fish, but you do get a 14 day guarantee from LiveAquaria, 7 day from Blue Zoo which somewhat justifies the extra cost. If it is a rare fish you really want and your LFS can't get it, then online is your only option. LiveAquaria and Blue Zoo Aquatics are IMO the top 2 places to order fish from online.

 

[Cope]

Has anyone ever ordered from Reeftopia?

 

[CaptainAndy]

Reeftopia is, IMO, the best place to get cleanup crews.

 

[nissanrs]

keyscritters gives the best pricing. they cutom your order. free pods if requested

 

[KJAG]

Will never buy fish from anywhere but live aquaria. Arrive and stay alive guarantee is key

 

[Cope]

I have another question, this is about food. I put a piece of nori paper in my tank everyday. I feed 1 cube of frozen food every other day. I was feeding a cube everyday but my nitrates went up. Now my yellow tang is starting to attack my clowns and my chromis hide all day and night. What is the best food and how much? My nitrates are at 20, I know that is not to bad but I had zero for a long time. Could my nitrate issue mean my cuc is not big enough? Thank you