Ordering Fish from SaltwaterFish.com - Shipping Fish Success?

nklein

nklein

New Member
I am getting an octopus soon and I hear that the water has to be perfect. PH, Salt, Temp ect...
I am getting ready to order it from saltwaterfish.com and I was wondering on there shipping success. I mean I have ordered fish online before (not from saltwaterfish.com) but when they got here all I had was a box of DOA. I guess I'm asking is do they have a good live arrival success???
Thanks!
 
klongo

klongo

Member
I just received my first order from them and I'm thrilled!!
The hotpack was still actually hot. The box left them at 5 pm last night and arrived before 10 am this morning. Everything is moving, eating and basically looking VERY happy in their new home.
I'd order from them again and again.
 
nklein

nklein

New Member
I want the fish shipped overnight but it says the shipping is 2 day fed ex. Its the FREE shipping. I want them to ship it overnight tho. Does it cost extra? How much?
 
clint_reno

clint_reno

Member
Fish, inverts & corals are shipped FedEx overnight. It doesn't always go out right away, but it is shipped to arrive overnight.
Anybody that orders such packages needs to plan such arrivalsl. (Plan on being home when the fish show-up!) If you need the critters on a certain day, communicate with SWF.com.
I have had good experiences with SWF.com, but I also plan my order.
 
schneidts

schneidts

Active Member
I got my first order from them a month ago, and I was very pleased. Not only were all the critters healthy, but they were all very nice specimens. Good luck.
 
I

iluvfish

Guest
Ditto - always a great experience. Plus a 6 day guarantee!
I've heard that octopus are escape artists - so make sure everything is sealed well. Also - if they are frightened, don't they spray ink and kill everything?
Good luck!!
 
caillou

caillou

Member
I don't think you'd get a 100% honest answer without a mod deleting it. I've had good luck with my orders though and they've always made good on their guarantee.
 
caillou

caillou

Member
Oh and by the way, I saw an octopus at the LFS the other day. Really cool. Last night while at another LFS they had a squid. It was really cool too but I'm afraid it would give my 3 year old nightmares!
 
jlem

jlem

Active Member

Originally posted by Caillou
I don't think you'd get a 100% honest answer without a mod deleting it.
I think that if you used the forum for a drawn out B%$#@ session then it would be cause it to be deleted or locked, but not for mentioning that you where disapointed with an order because somebody asked for peoples opinions like in this case. This forum is not for complaining about your order and expecting it to be fixed, but if you said that you where dissapointed in the quality or something like that, I doubt if it would be locked or deleted.
 
jaret

jaret

New Member
I've heard that Octopuses (?octopie?) :notsure: are very very sensative to everything and difficult to keep alive. You may want to search the net as I recall reading about a guys set up to keep an octopus. Since I am not allowed to link you to another site, let me tell you to google search the following terms to find the article:
"Jason Scott" "Octopus antics"
You may find this article very useful.
Good Luck
 
clint_reno

clint_reno

Member
I just rechecked this thread, and I have to take polite disagreement with Caillou. While i have only been in this hobby for six months, I have had my full run of ups and downs.
The best experiences have been with this forum, and the vendors that pay for it. SWF.com does not have to run a forum on their business website. They do, I imagine, because it helps the hobby, and it helps their business. (Money and passion.)
The mods will delete your posts if you advocate other online vendors. In all fairness, this is their right.
But I think it is unfortunate to suggest the mods delete posts that knock SWF.com.
Maybe SWF.com is simply really good at what they do, and most customers are happy.
They continue to treat me well.
 
diverandy

diverandy

Member
I've ordered a few orders from SWF and from other online fish stores and actually had the best luck with SWF. If you follow the accumulation procedure, it works.
As for the octopus, I'd do some more research before bringing one into a home tank setting. I have seen octopi in the ocean devour turtles and crabs that were larger than they were. In the Bahamas, I witnessed an octopus ink a large fish then turn around and engulf it with its tentacles and tentacle skirts (?) (the webbing between its tentacles that can expand many times its normal size.) The fish did not have a chance. I saw this while on a night dive in about 45 feet of water with over 100' of visibility (I have really powerful lights and it was almost a full moon).
I also saw this video and was astonished as to the power of this octopi... (you must have real player installed to view this)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octop.../shark_hi.html
I'm not trying to talk you out of one, but research will help you to make sure how to care for it and what tank mates to choose...
good luck
andy (-:
 
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