Online Coral Vendors: Suggestions

That's a great start. I am a beginner with no experience ordering online. If people can include tried and tested stores with their experience it will make really nice thread. Thanks for comments.

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Shipping in the hot weather is my concern plus shipping cost itself. Local pickup would be nice if possible.

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You're a beginner and want to jump into ordering corals online? Why for? Personally I'd start with local stores, and no not as some soapbox "support your LFS" moment, but to find out where your skill level is at. You could go to a store and for $100 come how with a bunch of frags of various corals, granted these aren't going to be the super bright colorful ones you see on a website but you'll also see what they look like under a particular light in person, to your eyes, not what they look like with an orange camera filter, a black background and post production work with something like photoshop, which $100 may not even buy you a single frag when shipping is added in.
 
Take a look at some of the F/S threads here. For example, Kremis has some Zoas at very reasonable prices a few threads down. $10 for colorful Zoas is hard to beat. Gentledental4u has some good stuff and WIP has good prices on SPS.

But to answer your question, I've ordered from Your Reef and ASD, they both have great corals. I think ASD occasionally has 15%-20% off their site. I know both of them have live sales too on another forum called Reef -> Reef. Replace "->" with a 2.

Edit: This is great, I can't type the name of the other forum or the shorten named. LoL
 
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sfsuphysics said:
You're a beginner and want to jump into ordering corals online? Why for? Personally I'd start with local stores, and no not as some soapbox "support your LFS" moment, but to find out where your skill level is at. You could go to a store and for $100 come how with a bunch of frags of various corals, granted these aren't going to be the super bright colorful ones you see on a website but you'll also see what they look like under a particular light in person, to your eyes, not what they look like with an orange camera filter, a black background and post production work with something like photoshop, which $100 may not even buy you a single frag when shipping is added in.
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I get the point. I wanted to browse and see what people offer online. At the moment I am searching for a drag of gold/pink hammer/frogspawn. Neptune usually has big colonies of such which tend be expensive. I would rather prefer some hobbyist here frag me some. Thank you for the advice.

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JsL30629 said:
Take a look at some of the F/S threads here. For example, Kremis has some Zoas at very reasonable prices a few threads down. $10 for colorful Zoas is hard to beat. Gentledental4u has some good stuff and WIP has good prices on SPS.

But to answer your question, I've ordered from Your Reef and ASD, they both have great corals. I think ASD occasionally has 15%-20% off their site. I know both of them have live sales too on another forum called Reef -> Reef. Replace "->" with a 2.

Edit: This is great, I can't type the name of the other forum or the shorten named. LoL
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Yes so true, lots of good corals are sold here in forums. I am particularly looking for a pink/gold hammer/frogspawn hence was browsing everywhere. I wish I could visit stores may be soon.

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