online Zoa shopping

reefwars · #1 01-30-2011, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by don.ald

well my experience with fragalot is i always got what i ordered. no compalints here. i didnt know he even sold chicken or steak

bahaha .....could be a side business

well maybe he needs more sales like to your self and he can get a good rep going.

ill say one thing though first time i ever ordered off red coral i was talking to kevin and told him to send me ten frags and to surprise me i was curious on what i would get...he could have sent me a load of sand polyps, common green,browns,common buttons.......but he didnt he sent me ten of the nicest ones they had including fire and ice ,darth mauls and he did this to make sure id be back(good move on his hehalf lol)

nothing but good things to say about red coral their zoas change all the time so its always worth checking in and i find rare ones there all the time alot of times before they know it lol well maybe not doug hes all over that like a bucket of chicken at oprahs lol

don.ald · #2 01-30-2011, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

nothing but good things to say about red coral

your not alone!!

The Grizz · #3 01-30-2011, 02:23 AM

RC is the bomb baby, I do agree with you too Denny. You should get what you want and pay for.

The Grizz · #4 01-30-2011, 02:32 AM

Well I just checked out www.oceansdirect.ca.........OMFG!!!!

A 4-5" maxima clam for $39.99 & a 2" for $25, 10-15 polyp zoa frags for $10.

Are they serious, flat rate shipping in Canada of $35. This could be a promising site.

reefwars · #5 01-30-2011, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by The Grizz

Well I just checked out www.oceansdirect.ca.........OMFG!!!!

A 4-5" maxima clam for $39.99 & a 2" for $25, 10-15 polyp zoa frags for $10.

Are they serious, flat rate shipping in Canada of $35. This could be a promising site.

greg all those zoas can be found around town and def in calgary, id say mini colonys for just a little more.......just post an ad looking for zoas alot of times people dont decide to sell them untill they see a looking for ad.alot of times people just dont want to place for sale ads and wait to see a looking for ad

same story for the clams post a loking for ad and same rules apply someone is thinking about something nice they want they all of a sudden see your ad and decide ...hell i could sell one of my nice clams..

The Grizz · #6 01-30-2011, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

greg all those zoas can be found around town and def in calgary, id say mini colonys for just a little more.......just post an ad looking for zoas alot of times people dont decide to sell them untill they see a looking for ad.alot of times people just dont want to place for sale ads and wait to see a looking for ad

same story for the clams post a loking for ad and same rules apply someone is thinking about something nice they want they all of a sudden see your ad and decide ...hell i could sell one of my nice clams..

Oh I know Denny, but with the rising cost of gas unless I am going to one of the cities to make some money & able to charge out my fuel I really don't get there that often. And lately it seem if I am selling something & someone from the big cities wants it, they want it delivered for free. Any thing I have ever bought from the cities used I have always picked up.

So you can see if I was to order 1 clam for $40 & 6 $10 frags + $35 shipping to my door that is almost the cost of my fuel alone.

Reef-Geek · #7 01-31-2011, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Grizz

Well I just checked out www.oceansdirect.ca.........OMFG!!!!

A 4-5" maxima clam for $39.99 & a 2" for $25, 10-15 polyp zoa frags for $10.

Are they serious, flat rate shipping in Canada of $35. This could be a promising site.

has anyone tried to order from OceansDirect? their price sounds too good to be true.

2pts · #8 01-31-2011, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by shingo43

has anyone tried to order from OceansDirect? their price sounds too good to be true.

I placed an order of a bunch of zoas and a hippo tang. He emailed me 2 days later that he could not ship his hippo tangs (ich had started showing). I cancelled my order as the hippo tang was a big part of it.

Nebthet wrote this on Aug 26th 2010 about them...

"Ocean's Direct is associated with the store in Toronto called North American Fish Breeders.
Those of us from Ontario would be more familiar with it than most of you guys out in the west.

I can at least vouch that there coral frags are good. I got my acans from them and they are beautiful and growing very well in my system.
Shipping to my place was great. But I live in Ontario, so I cannot vouch for how there shipping to your area may be.

I will let you know though, that if they run out of stock for an item that you order, they may not tell you until after they ship it, that they have substituted it with something else that is similar to other things you ordered. For example on my last order, two zoas frags were not available but they substituted them with a nice acan frag instead which equaled to more than the cost of the zoas and in the same color range the zoas were. So I was happy.

Their communication is also fairly decent via email though the turn around may be a day."

Nebthet · #9 02-01-2011, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by 2pts

I placed an order of a bunch of zoas and a hippo tang. He emailed me 2 days later that he could not ship his hippo tangs (ich had started showing). I cancelled my order as the hippo tang was a big part of it.

Nebthet wrote this on Aug 26th 2010 about them...

"Ocean's Direct is associated with the store in Toronto called North American Fish Breeders.
Those of us from Ontario would be more familiar with it than most of you guys out in the west.

I can at least vouch that there coral frags are good. I got my acans from them and they are beautiful and growing very well in my system.
Shipping to my place was great. But I live in Ontario, so I cannot vouch for how there shipping to your area may be.

I will let you know though, that if they run out of stock for an item that you order, they may not tell you until after they ship it, that they have substituted it with something else that is similar to other things you ordered. For example on my last order, two zoas frags were not available but they substituted them with a nice acan frag instead which equaled to more than the cost of the zoas and in the same color range the zoas were. So I was happy.

Their communication is also fairly decent via email though the turn around may be a day."

Wow. you did some searching to find that.. LOL... and yes I still vouch for their frags, they are all really good and usually you end up with more than the minimum.
Any issues with them and they fix it up as well if they sent you the wrong one and you were not happy with it.

What I would suggest, if a bunch of you are interested in ordering.. send them an email and ask them to update their frags page and inverts page. They have a lot more at their store location than what they actually put on their website, for example, they have cerith snail for $1 in the store, electric blue hermits for $3, etc plus many many different types of frags not listed. Plus they haven't updated their frags page for a couple of months now and they should have new stuff in.

I sent them an email a couple of days ago to ask them to update, and if a couple other people who are interested in ordering from them do that too, you will have more to choose from.

The Grizz · #10 02-01-2011, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by shingo43

has anyone tried to order from OceansDirect? their price sounds too good to be true.

I have contacted them to see how up to date there web site is. It will be getting an update this week & it is best to contact them to see if they have what you want in stock.