Clean up crew deals?

[jay24k]

Anyone know of anyone who sells cleanup crews at decent prices?

My last person who did it stopped doing it. I can't see paying 1 to 2 dollars per snail.

My last order, hermits were 25 cents a piece and astreas were 35 cents and mexican turbos were a buck. Does anyone know of a site or person who has deals similiar to this? Looking to do a big order of a couple hundred.

Thanks.

 

[sytanek]

Last time I found the info by searching RC for group buys.

 

[thor32766]

Sea life inc. has pretty good prices on them.

 

[jay24k]

Do they offer reduced pricing on bigger orders? 80 cents a snail is still pretty high when you are used to 35 cents. Buying 200 adds up

 

[jay24k]

Reeftopia seems to be about the cheapest I found. I'll keep checking around.

 

[davy182]

ebay has some good ones on ilynassa obselata.

 

[jay24k]

Thanks. I'll check that out.

 

[lusenut2]

If you order from Reeftopia I will would like to get in on that order. I wouldnt mind some pepermint shrimp and snails.

 

[DJChesnutRabbit]

I wouldn't mind jumping in on it too. If you look at their lot prices, the cost really goes down.

 

[jay24k]

I'm over an hour away so it makes it a bit more difficult to do a group buy. There shipping is free anyway and I calculated price per item and it is fairly good.

 

[Jolu]

reefscavengers has some good deals and he's local.

 

[davy182]

so far on ebay I found the snails for 80 shipped for 500 snails. 55 dollars for 250 and 25 dollars for 100

 

[jay24k]

Those werent astreas though were they? I didn't see any for them but I did see the ceriths if I recall.

 

[chrisstie]

I find it ironic that anyone would want cheap inverts but from online where you'll probably pay at least $30 in shipping.. or are you really seriously looking for something huge and bulk like ?

 

[chrisstie]

Hehe it was late at night. Have you had a look at bluezooaquatics or etropicals.com ?

 

[jy544]

Alot of the places to get cheap inverts are here in Florida so shipping is only $10-15 max.

 

[jay24k]

Well I'm looking to stock a 180 and my prop tank. I factor in shipping and I mainly only buy from Florida since shipping is 10 to 15 bucks. When I buy snails, I also split it with a friend and a coworker. So we buy about 300 to 500 snails depending on the type. Any reeftopia is free shipping over 99 bucks or something like that.

 

[jay24k]

Checked out etropicals. Prices about the same as the LFS. bluezooaquaatics is way too high. 500 dollars for a cleanup crew is just laughable. Either way, I'll be using reeftopia as it seems their pricing is pretty well and close to the other person I used to use.

 

[chrisstie]

Dont forget that if you're not in a super big hurry many of the LFS can special order in within a week or two what you'd want so you'd just need to take a little drive if you find online places too expensive. Just depends on the supply of wholesalers at the time.

I'm a *little* nervous about ordering some critters online because some stores misidentify cleaners. There was a place on ebay once that was selling nassarius snails and conchs I had heard about and when the person received their goods it was all whelks (that looked a lot like the right thing but weren't)

Just be careful

 

[jay24k]

Yea I'm leery of ebay for certain things. But if it is a reputable place, I'm a little ok. Most stores I have tried don't want to give any breaks. One local store wants 2 dollars per astrea. I asked them what pricing would be if I bought 200 and they said 400.00 and they don't have a discount.

One sort of LFS did contact me so we will see how it works out. Biggest issue is driving to get it. Free shipping compared to taking 3 hours out of my time plus gas gets to be a pain. But I do like supporting local stores.