Anyone interested in a snail/crab group buy?

[plankton]

Been looking for inexpensive cleanup crew and someone pointed me to the following place that appears to have by far the most inexpensive snails/crabs:

Update - was Aquatic Island but now Reef Topia since the former is sold-out and ReefTopia gets better bulk prices.

Anyone interested in a possible group buy?

Scott

 

[lanxang]

I'm interested.

 

[plankton]

ReefTopia - 600 dwarf hermits for $120. he he he.

Scott

 

[plankton]

Lak - how many do you need?
Bryan - how many do you need?

I'm thinking about placing the following order:

Hermit, Small BlueLeg (600 @ .20 Each) 120.00
Snail, Cerith {Best Variety} (300 @ .60 Each) 180.00
Snail, Turbo (Astrae) (300 @ .34 Each) 102.00
TOTAL: 1200 critters at $402, but get 10% = 362

Scott

 

[lanxang]

that would give us free shipping. . I'm not sure what quanity I need but here is what I want:

Emerald Crab
Turbo Snail (can we request sizes)
Cerith Snail
Nerite Snail
Golden Astrea Snails

 

[plankton]

Lak,

Their free shipping minimum is about $125, so no problem there. If you order more than $200 you get 10% off.

We can order the Emerald crab on a per case basis since many folks don't trust them.

The turbo snails can grow very large and as such are really good at knocking corals over that are not cemeted in. Also, can order on a per case basis.

The golden astrea snails are definitely doable in quantity, but the nerite are $1 each. WOW!

What quantity are you thinking of getting in each?

Scott

 

[GorillaReefer]

I'm in for:

Turbo Snail
Nerite Snail
Cerith Snail
Astrea Snails
Golden Astrea Snails

 

[plankton]

Jayscube - how many of each?
Lak - how many of each?

Scott

 

[plankton]

If we can get all requests in with species _and_ quantity by

close of business Monday, August 22nd

then we should have enough time to bring inverts to the club meeting on Saturday, Aug 27th.

Here's what I need:

[plankton]
600 Hermit, Small BlueLeg
200 Snail, Cerith
200 Snail, Turbo (Astrae)

[jayscube]
20 Turbo Snail
20 Nerite Snail
20 Cerith Snail
20 Astrea Snails
20 Golden Astrea Snails

 

[GorillaReefer]

20 of each is probably enough for me. TY

 

[Jacob D]

Scott, I'm in for 30 of the ceriths and 12 mini-hermits. I don't like those astrea snails because they can't flip themselves over. Do these guys offer trochus snails? IMO trochus are the best snails out there.

 

[Jacob D]

Another option you might check out is floridapets.com I seem to remember them having some really cheap prices for large qty.

 

[plankton]

Jake,

Thanks for the link to floridapets.com, but they are very expensive compared to the others.

They don't carry trochus, but they carry a bunch of others

Maybe the 'golden astrea' or 'baby astrea' would be better since less likely to get stuck. Dunno. But, most threads I've read say that the common astrea is the one most likely to eat algae, even though they sometimes get stuck and cannot always right themselves.

Scott

 

[lanxang]

Scott, I'll get five of each except for the emerald. the turbo should be able to handle the majority of the work.

 

[plankton]

Updated list till I can figure out how to update a post after 60min or link off another site:

[plankton]
600 Hermit, Small BlueLeg
200 Snail, Cerith
200 Snail, Turbo (Astrae)

[jayscube]
20 Turbo Snails
20 Nerite Snails
20 Cerith Snails
20 Astrea Snails
20 Golden Astrea Snails

[Lanxang]
1 Emerald Crab
5 Turbo Snail
5 Cerith Snail
5 Nerite Snail
5 Golden Astrea Snails

[Mothra]
30 Cerith Snails
12 Hermit, Small BlueLeg

 

[prodman]

I probably want somthing like 180 astrea and 360 ceriths. Depening on the price. And my ability to pick it up.

 

[plankton]

My original plan was to bring them to the meeting but then they would have to sit around for about 3 hours and would have to bag them again. Prolly not a good idea.

We sorta have 2 choices and I'd like to see what works best for folks:

1) Come by Friday afternoon/early evening and pick up the inverts in their original unopenned bags floating in my sump to maintain temperature.

2) Come by Saturday after the meeting and pick up inverts from my a holding tank. Small risk that some may die after acclimation and you'd have to reacclimate them to your tank conditions.

Scott

 

[Bdimas]

I'll take

12 Nassarius Vibex
12 Cerith snails
Thanks!!!!!!!!!

 

[GorillaReefer]

Hey paul, i could pick them up at the meeting and meet you in sacramento afterwards if you want.

 

[prodman]

Jay- That would be cool. Pm your # to me again and we can make a plan.