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dabandit

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Ok heres the deal I have a pile o cash tied up in paypal and a fully cycled tank sitting empty for almost 3 months....unfortunatelly my bank account is also fully cycled and sitting empty lol. Anyway I want to stock it from paypal...so online I guess is the way to go. I've been on every reputable site I could find read countless threads but I cant find anyone who will ship to me...only places I found were jl who is not shipping again until mid Jan and incredible aquariums who is ridonkulouslly over priced but they dont take paypal.
Any help/advice would be greatlly apreciated...my 2 year old asks me everyday,where did fishies go :sad2:

I need everything;fish,cuc and coral....im thinking coralmaster for coral but for everything else......
I am a member of canreef and bcaquaria but those sites are little to no help compared to this reefcentral beast
 
World Wide Corals takes PayPal here in Orlando. Their prices may seem high, but they are a brick and mortar actual place on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando that I go to from time to time as one of my LFS
 
Thank you so much a very cool site,but as far as I can tell they only sell coral,I still need a cuc and some fishies. Any ideas?
 
dabandit said:
OMG ty,ty,ty bacon and beaver skin hats for everyone!! lol
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YAY beaver skin hat.. woot woot.. eh??? hehe where abouts are you from?

salt water tanks are the only way to go.. this morning my son took the molted shell of our fireshrimp to school.. haha it was funny i called him over and i asked him to see how many fire shrimp we had and hes like OOO did it have a baby?? hehe

but yeah and the guy bob at ibluewater is really nice.. and i think they accept paypal..
 
Redhaloangel said:
YAY beaver skin hat.. woot woot.. eh??? hehe where abouts are you from?

salt water tanks are the only way to go.. this morning my son took the molted shell of our fireshrimp to school.. haha it was funny i called him over and i asked him to see how many fire shrimp we had and hes like OOO did it have a baby?? hehe

but yeah and the guy bob at ibluewater is really nice.. and i think they accept paypal..
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About 5minutes from you in Cloverdale lol
 
we can start a reef club here its always nice to know other people who do salt water.. i really only know 1 other person here.. :(
 
Redhaloangel said:
we can start a reef club here its always nice to know other people who do salt water.. i really only know 1 other person here.. :(
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Been done lol try bc aquaria some cool local reefers on there,the folks at oceanaquatics in delta are crazy nice they used to have get toghethers way back but I've been out of the game for a while though.

.....I think I just jacked my own thread lol
 
I've ordered from two Canadian sites recently, fragalot.ca and fragbox.cafragbox.ca. My experiences with March at fragbox have been extraordinary -- he bends over backwards to please his customers, throws in freebies, and if something dies during shipping he makes it right. He seems like a kind, compassionate person and genuinely cares deeply for his stock. He won't sell freshly cut frags, or anything that feels substandard; he fragged a yellow leather for me, and by the time it had healed and started to grow on the plug, its colour had faded and he absolutely would not send it to me even though I was fine with it. He is quite a small store at this point, but seems to be rapidly expanding and has fantastic customer service.

fragalot.ca definitely gets some bad press, but I've actually had an almost entirely positive experience with Burc. They do ship freshly fragged corals (I don't think I'd want to order SPS from them based on what I've read) but the stock they get in is unreal. One issue I've had is not receiving exactly what I ordered -- I bought what was pictured and described as a deep purple finger/branching leather colony, and received a mauve tree-shaped frag. I actually love it, it's beautiful, but it is certainly not what I initially ordered.

Both vendors shipped FedEx overnight (you can ask for 'hold at location' in winter months and pick them up, rather than having them bring the box on a truck to your door, so the box stays warm). Burc did forget to label my box 'hold at location' last time, so the corals were on a cold truck for hours, but they were well packed and arrived with no issue; the water was still about 70F.

Both have also allowed me to purchase things that weren't listed on their site -- if you ask for something, they'll find it at a supplier and get it to you (you have to allow time for this of course).
 
Thanks for the write up on the two,it helped me make the choice I placed an order with fragbox I've heard nothing but good things about their service and I look forward to my new coral.
Still need a cuc and fish though lol
 
I have a similar issue, I would LOVE to be able to order fish and inverts online, from a reliable source; our nearest LFS is a chain store over an hour away. March did have some inverts in as a 'test', to see if there would be a market, and he sold out FAST. He'll be getting more inverts in the future, and told me he's planning to branch into fish eventually -- I think he's working on setting up a brick and mortar location somewhere in Toronto, there's definitely expansion on the horizon. He has been nothing short of angelic to me -- anything that dies is replaced no questions asked, and his stock is extremely healthy to begin with, so very few things have issues. Enjoy your corals! :D
 
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