issue with salt order

Mel,
This hobby can be mysterious. I only tested 2 of 3 salt buckets for mag, and it was low. Water testing can be difficult and is only as good as the test kit and procedure used for testing. I would like to test with another test kit (all my levels) but who has the time or money for redundant testing.
One thing I can say is that if you want to raise Mag it will take a lot more reef builder than you probably have since Mag is the 2nd most abundant element in salt water behind sodium. The real problem is that mag supplements are crystalized (not pure mag) and to go from 1050 ppm to 1350 ppm takes pounds of epson salt or similar supplements. I quit dripping kalk and used the topoff to get my levels up so I don't need the reef builder but thanks for the offer I appreciate it.
Mike
 
I'm working with PA on our order. Issue at the moment is we need 108 buckets for free shipping. Price is $5 off their price which comes to $30.50+shipping AND it's only 160g, not 200. I'm trying to get it (LESS qty) dropped shipped to us vs shipping to them then to us. We're gonna have to establish a deadline for a quantity but that too was asked to PA to see if they face a quantity price break and what it is.

Dave, looking forward to telling stories and having a beer with you every 3rd Sat.

Mike, I don't know what kind of Mg you use but I'm happy I got in on Mutling's bulk buy because 4-5tsp pulled my 300 from 75% to 110% levels. I don't regularly test it but I did about a month ago it was right on and I add 1 tsp to my top off every month OR SO.
 
Sea Chem will do a direct sale, but they will only ship to a true LFS. I contacted them about this about 6 months ago, and that was the answer I received. I'm in for some Seachem if we got that route.
 
Two buckets for me; 3 if needed to make the minimum pallet requirement. Who do I pay and when?

Dave
 
OK, so $6/off PA's listed price, we pay shipping (55lb/ea according to PA's site), no special quantity needed. I just calc'd off one of several truckers rates to get a quick idea of the cost and 10 buckets would cost about $165, 20 would be $240. I dont know the freight class for Salt. At class 100 it's $240, at 85 it's $215. It's rare that I come across something under 85 but even if it's $200 it still comes to $10/bucket for shipping. So we are looking at about $40ish per 160g. Not as good of a deal as we've got before!

One point noted is that it's already shipped from GA to Indy and we're paying shipping back to TN. I dont know if Matt might be able to negotiate direct with SeaChem, and possibly their problem was that others asked for it to be delivered to a residense where we have several people with loading docks at work where we could deliver to.

Anyone have any other ideas?
 
I'm in for 2 buckets of Seachem. I will volunteer the loading dock and one of our delivery trucks to bring the pallet or pallets to a central point in Knoxville where everyone can pick up their order. My shipping and receiving folks on the docks will turn away any freight collect orders unless they have prior approval. Order will have to be paid for in advance including freight for my folks to be allowed to unload.

If we can work a deal to purchase directly from Seachem in Atlanta area, freight would be cheaper.

Whatever happens, you got a dock and a truck if you need 'em.:rollface:
 
Yeah so that's not nearly as good of a deal as we got on the Kent. But I guess if that's the best salt for us, it would probably be worth paying a bit extra. It's only going to hit a few of us hard anyways, so I guess it would be alright.

If we can start to collect money in a couple of weeks rather than, say...right in April when I am hella busy...I could totally coordinate all the money again. I'm fairly used to it at this point, but if someone else wants to do it...that's prefectly fine too. Like I said...I can't start doing something like that til more toward the end of April though (only a couple of weeks). It's insanely complicated as I have found out from previously collecting money for the orders.
 
Yeah I know I know. It's totally true. Ok well let me talk to Matt about it since he will likely be buying the most number of buckets anyways, ya know?
 
Whew, dodged a deligated bullet.

I dont want to give Matt a cookie for not being able to negotiate it on his own with SeaChem ,but if we continue down the PA route I'll cooridinate it all. As a broker, we don't have a dock, so we'll need Art, Graham or someone more local than Shriner to receive them. And we'll need to be concisious about getting them out of the way as quickly as possible...
 
Yeah I am SURE that Art could probably receive them again. Plus he's located so centrally in town that it's a great spot for it.

For those of you who don't know, Art's work is on Middlebrook Pk at those big gas storage facilities.
 
I still havent had a chance to look up the freight class but as for trucking the weight break is at 2000lbs. That puts us at 37 buckets ~ if they are truely 55lbs/ea. The next weight break isnt until 5000lbs so we wont reach that. This comes to $8.10/bucket for shipping.

So, considering a 160g bucket will be about $38-$40 after discount + shipping, pls post how many you are still interested in.

I'm in for 2 (I still have 3 1/2 of the old kent).
 
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