Hi Everyone, looking for recommendations for online reef safe fish vendors. My lfs leaves much to be desired and the next closest is 2 hours away. Y'all have any go to vendors? What do y'all look for when looking at fish online? Appreciate it.
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Gill the 3rd
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Ive only ever ordered from saltwaterfish.com and biota. Saltwaterfish.com has generally been pretty good, but you will definitely want to qt your fish from them. Ive had fish come in pretty rough.
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They have a 15 day guarantee (on non-expert species) and great prices with a relatively low amount to get free shipping.
They have a 15 day guarantee (on non-expert species) and great prices with a relatively low amount to get free shipping.
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I stopped buying fish online a coupe of years ago. Maybe see if the store 2 hours away can order fish for you. I would drive 2 hours to buy fish vs having them shipped. I have a lfs that will order fish and I buy them while still bagged from the wholesaler. I get a break on price as the store doesn't have to acclimate and worry about losses. I also think it's better for the fish as they avoid an extra acclimation and move. Just throwing out possible options 
I appreciate the responses, I'll look into my lfs ordering somethings for me. I've tried to catch petco before they release their fish but getting fish from there is definitely not ideal
Saltwateraquarium.com (carries ORA) and DrReef (https://drreefsquarantinedfish.com/). I only buy quarantined or farm raised fish. I hope to never go through a velvet or ick or any other kind of outbreak again. It's a horrible thing. They have both been great and saltwateraquarium has free shipping after $179 live. They have lots of nice corals and inverts as well. All inverts are kept fallow. I haven't tried Biota yet but I plan on it.
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For my Red Sea 200xl tank, I sourced it from 2 vendors that QTs….Dr Reef and TSM Aquatics. All fish was QTed by the vendor and went straight into the display . All fish healthy and fat 1 year later
FoolishWizard
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Only online source Ive tried was @Biota_Marine... Awesome yellow tang and royal gramma, healthy as can be.
Thank you guys for the shoutouts! We're happy to help if you have any questions
Gill the 3rd
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I should have mentioned in my previous response - Biota was really good. Ordered some mandarins and filefish and they came in really healthy. Would definitely recommend them.
I've ordered from @Dr. Reef many times and will continue to order from him. Fish arrive eating everything I feed them. I wont order from anyone else. The prices are very fair to.
Gill the 3rd
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Just checked out the website, I'm definitely going to have to try ordering from them in the future. I typically qt my own fish in copper/observation tanks, but I may go this route. Thanks for the recommendation. Prices are not bad at all for properly qt fish.
QT-ing sucks. ill pay someone to do it for me.
I just ordered my last fish for my 90 so im done with fish.
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Thank you @doubleshot00 for the referral. We appreciate your business and support.
@Gill the 3rd we also have the conditioned livestock option. if you goto shop and click on conditioned it will take you to our other website, www.wholesale-aquatics.com if you preffer to qt your own.
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I also recommend Adam from Ocean Devotion. I received both of clown fish as well as my Banggai Cardinal from him. Absolute joy to do business with. Easy to communicate with as well.
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I've also had good experience with nyaquatics. I've had a purple tang and a few wrasses from him that I've had for a few years.
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