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Anybody else ever buy from saltcritters.com?

Discussion in 'Des Moines & Ames Region' started by mnvikes, Nov 4, 2012.

  1. Nov 4, 2012 #1
    mnvikes

    mnvikes Inactive User

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    i bought a few corals from them a couple weeks ago because im cheap and they had awesome prices and are one of the few commercial places that ship priority which keeps shipping cost around $10... but i thought all but 1 of the corals varied pretty significantly from the pictures. im tempted to buy a couple other things, has anyone else had the same experience or did i have bad luck with my first order?
     
  2. Nov 5, 2012 #2
    darkiss

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    Priority Mail kept them alive?

     
  3. Nov 5, 2012 #3
    mnvikes

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    actually it was 2 day ground and the duncan died (i got greedy and tried to get an lps with a cheap shipping method), but ive bought polyps and softies on several occasions and shipped them priority mail or ups 2-3 day when the outdoor temps are 60s-80s and that was the first coral ive ever lost in shipping, beats paying $30-50 for overnight when youre mostly getting easy hardy stuff
     
  4. Nov 6, 2012 #4
    darkiss

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    well, if we got more people together we could split the cost of the overnight shipping.

    As you said, your duncan died, bet she would not have if it was overnight
     
  5. Nov 27, 2012 #5
    Chris C. Des Moines, IA

    Chris C. Experienced Reefkeeper GIRS Member

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    I bought from them about a year ago while they were still smaller and had really good luck. I know they have grown significantly in the last year!
     
  6. Nov 29, 2012 #6
    darkiss

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    Recently reefs2go sent me some free zoas and they sent them over priority mail, with 72 hour heat packs.

    Surprised that the zoas made it, they took several days longer to open up from zoas that I have bought off local members but they did open and are growing new heads.
     
  7. Nov 29, 2012 #7
    Pete H.

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    free zoas? .... How did you pull that one off? /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif
     
  8. Nov 30, 2012 #8
    darkiss

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    Well apparently if you spend 1$ you get a free frag with 5 heads on it. Then they had several items with free shipping, so I ended up just placing three different orders for 7$ pods ( Recently they had a 15% deal, from the normal 10$). Then I had three different zoa frags come with three different packages of pods.
     

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