Any good cheat salt that I can get locally?

[vtrieu88]

Looking for 2 to 4 of the 200g.

 

[dswong01]

Connies tropical fish castro valley sells I/O 50 gallons bags for 8.99 and Reef cystals 50 gallon bag 12.99

 

[Reefugee]

That's cheap for Reef Crystals. It's $20 in the Sac area. If I could get it for $12.99, I would have swapped over.

 

[dswong01]

I switched because it was reasonably priced Aquarium Concepts wants 19.99 down the street and around the corner .
( 1/2 mile away)

 

[andyman]

6th ave has it for 9.99 and lucky ocean has it for 9.99 also.

 

[dswong01]

Andy,
Is that the price of reef crystals? If so that dam good price

 

[funman1]

Mihn just watch out for the IORC for some reason I could not get it to buffer above 7.8PH

That's why I made switched to the salt they had samples of at WMC

 

[Elite]

You can go to Petsmart and buy IO salt for 31.99 - 160G bucket. That is pretty cheap. You have to print out the price on their website and they will match it.

 

[fat walrus]

29.99 for 160gal IO, 34.99 for 200gal of Kent or Oceanic, 26.99 for 150gal of coralife at natural life in sunnyvale.

 

[Elite]

Natural Life sell IO that cheap?? I didn't know that. Got to visit them this weekend cause I need more salt
Thanks

 

[dannieboiz]

Is Natural Life that little place next to Sushi Maru?

 

[fat walrus]

yep, that's the one. the owner will take care you, you just got to overlook his fustration on a busy day or right after a big-time bargainer. if you are reasonable, he'll make sure you feel like a friend. i know he hates it when people just walk in an demand prices that they found researching the web. if you give him a chance, the prices will always even out.

 

[Mr. Ugly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7481871#post7481871 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fat walrus
29.99 for 160gal IO [...} at natural life in sunnyvale.

At the Oakland Connie's as well. But then you have to deal with the issue of whether or not you want to do business with that store.

 

[fat walrus]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7482209#post7482209 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mr. Ugly
At the Oakland Connie's as well. But then you have to deal with the issue of whether or not you want to do business with that store.

please explain

 

[dannieboiz]

I always eat @ Sushi Maru but when I'm there it's usually dinner time so they're already closed. I know there's a fish store there but from the outside it looks like a hole in the wall kinda place. Any other reasons to be there beside salt? Good price on live stocks perhaps?

Anyone know their business hours?

 

[fat walrus]

i think they open 11:00 each day and close at 7 weekdays, 6 sat, and i don't know what time they close on sunday. i never go because the owner is never there on that day. they have a very large selection of dry goods, their livestock is generally very good quality, but the variety varies. he has stuff like war coral, sunset monti, and rainbow monti. his sps selection is not the biggest because the owner buys only what he can see. the place is not a hole in-the-wall, i think it is about 2500 sq.ft, it make many other stores in the bay area look like a broom closet. it is about the same size as sushi maru

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Natural Life Aquariums is a BAR sponsor

I got mine from New Alameda Aquatics, also a sponsor. I had to ask Steve to order a couple buckets for me, though. It wasn't a regular stock item. At that time, it was $35 a bucket, out the door cash price.

I probably could have got it for even a little less from NAA, but I didn't want to lowball. Steve asked, "What's the best price you got from the other stores?" I said, "thirty something" so that he could pick a price that was fair to him. Like Fat Walrus said, give the LFS guy a chance, and the prices will even out.

I'd rather buy from a place like Natural Life or New Alameda, even if I end up paying a whole $2(!!!) more for a bucket. At least I know I"m not buying from a place that tortures corals and fishes.

And our sponsors do take care of us. Just remember all the free corals they've already given you/us for our swaps and raffles, the special sales they have for club members, the extra big frag they cut for you when you asked for a medium sized one, the extra polyps they give you because they "don't feel like" fragging.

When's the last time Petsmart or Connie's babysat your fish and corals for you when your tank crashed?

 

[Mr. Ugly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7482230#post7482230 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fat walrus
please explain

Some people think that they don't take good care of their livestock. You've seen their fish and corals?

 

[fat walrus]

i did not know that natural life was a sponsor of BAR, i thought he was a neigborhood secret. i did go to that big club in sf that is sponsored by the steinhart(i just can't remember their name now) and was surprised that he had donated freshwater plants to the auction. that couldn't have been about business, what freshwater keeper would drive from sf to sunnyvale?

 

[fat walrus]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7482255#post7482255 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mr. Ugly
Some people think that they don't take good care of their livestock. You've seen their fish and corals?

actually no. i have not seen their livestock.....can u tell me more? are they as bad as 6th ave? i was always tempted to go check it out, but was told it is in a real bad area. i heard that the block that they are on is the boundary between two gangs.