Yeah, the LFS said it costs an arm & a leg to ship things all the way to northern Alberta. That's why he has to charge so much. At least the specimens they had were all in very good shape, all of the ones in stock were fully expanded abd had bubble tips.
The skimmer is a Coralife SuperSkimmer 3000, 65-gal version. Works great for me, except you have to make sure the air intake is clean at all times, or else the skimmer will overflow, depending how high you had your bubble level set to.