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03/20/2009, 09:41 AM
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eBay clean up crew..
So out of curiosity, last night I looked on eBay for a bigger clean up crew. To my suprise I found deals like:
50 blue hermits, $34 shipped 25 red hermits, $27 shipped 30 turbo snails, $30 shipped And the best of them all; 300 nassairus snails, $37 shipped!!! These prices sound too good to be true. Most places charge you $35 just to ship, but the feedback ratings are good, and they have a lot to boot. Anyone have experience with this?
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03/20/2009, 09:42 AM
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Is the seller by any chance Pieces-of-the-reef?
They have good prices, and I've heard a couple good feedbacks from them on this forum. I'm going to try them next time.
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03/20/2009, 09:49 AM
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why on earth would you ever want that many of anything in your tank....
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03/20/2009, 10:01 AM
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They are probably very very small and all caught in the wild so a good possibilty of a weak survival rate, long term.
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03/20/2009, 10:09 AM
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Just make sure they are Nassarius vibrex and not Nassarius obsoleta. They won't harm anything, but they don't live long in our reef tanks. They are a cooler water mud snail. I got 50 from Ebay before and they all survived the shipping, but slowly disappeared within a few months. I see them all the time on Ebay for really cheap, but I won't touch them again. HTH
The other stuff sounds like good prices. I just recently got some cerith snails for cheap and they used 2 - 3 day shipping, so it was only $10 shipping. So, I imagine there could be some good deals out there.
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03/20/2009, 10:46 AM
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Not to mention my dogface, sixline, and copperband enjoy snacks, and my yellow headed sleeper finds it amusing to flip them onto their back. I think its a plot, the goby flips them over for the other three to eat them easier.
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03/20/2009, 11:22 AM
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300 nassairus snails on Ebay are Nassarius obsoleta. Do not buy them.
I bought them before & they died within a week or so. |
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03/20/2009, 11:27 AM
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03/20/2009, 11:41 AM
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Oh
 Okay well i'm still excited about peice of the reefs auctions lol. $24 flat rate, plus $30 for 100 hermits, and you can add any additional for only $1. Not bad. My clean up crew has slowly dissappeared, at one point in time I had about 60 crabs, 40 snails. I think they all had a huge battle royale, and fought to the death.
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