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Snail sale at live aquaria

amado

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Looks like liveaquaria is a having a sale on snails. The best deal is on Trochu snails
25 pack
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They have been having alot of sale lately but now they charge you a $10 box charge on top of shipping. When you add taxes, shipping and box charge it makes the sale not worth it.
 

Mark_C

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Just checked it out. With the overnight and handling charges my $32 order would be over $70.
Now, if some folks in central south wanted to join in for a few 25 packs of trochus, nassars, and ceriths, we can all split the cost and the packs...
 
Just wanted to throw this out there.
I just went through a spell with live aquaria. Order some fish and added a bunch of snails to round it up to free shipping.
Every snail I ordered, tricks, nassuriaus, and Astrias all arrived dead or in a dying state. And the fish were barely any better.
While this is not typical of my past orders from them years ago, I just wanted to throw it out there in case this is a careless issue arising from the current times.
 

Mark_C

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Just wanted to throw this out there.
I just went through a spell with live aquaria. Order some fish and added a bunch of snails to round it up to free shipping.
Every snail I ordered, tricks, nassuriaus, and Astrias all arrived dead or in a dying state. And the fish were barely any better.
While this is not typical of my past orders from them years ago, I just wanted to throw it out there in case this is a careless issue arising from the current times.

Interesting as I had some problems with them as well a few months back. I ordered a mandarin, which arrived dead. They sent me a replacement, which arrived in very bad shape and was dead by the morning.
Their CS was great and they offered to ship a third but I refused as I didn't want to endanger another animal. They were happy to give me credit, which I used on some coral pieces, which came through top notch.
 

amado

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Well the way I looked at it if you ordered two orders of snails you would get 50 snails and it would be around a $1 a snail that’s not bad.

and If you can team up with a few other people then that price goes down.
 

MadReefer

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I am in. May have to hunt them down during the tank switch but oh well.
 

Mark_C

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MR, I can place order, say, by tomorrow evening. Give me a call or drop me a text.
Hopefully a few others in the Brick/Toms River/Point area may be interested.
 

Mark_C

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Now that I'm looking at that, and looking at prices of the other snail types, I'm guessing that should be $88.99

Edit: Just dropped a big mixed snail order, including 5 orders of the trochus. Will keep folks informed on what happens. Ha! I may start raising snails in my live rock tank in the garage.
 
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