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[effishient]

For all you who are thinking about ordering from this website, I highly recommend it! I received my shipment of invertebrates today including:
1 Orange linkia starfish
2 Peppermint shrimp
3 Scarlet hermits
3 Fighting conchs
5 Nassarius snails
1 Mexican Turbo Snail
Everything came in perfect condition. I was really pleased with the way they were packaged. I followed the acclimation process to the "T" and now (several hours later) everything is swimming/crawling/sliming around just fine! I will definitely order from them again.

 

[jhc]

I'm new at this but is there any problem with adding that many animals at one time. I have thought about ordering from them, but I have been afraid to put that many citters in my tank at one time for fear of an ammonia spike. I think I had problems with that at one time and lost snails and several fish from it.
JHC

 

[kreach]

If you were to add that many fish at once, then you would certainly have an ammonia spike. But adding that many inverts isn't a problem... they don't put much of a bioload on a tank.

 

[effishient]

Yeah, that was the impression i was under... inverts don't add much of a "load" to the tank like fish do. After acclimating over a dozen different inverts, and testing the water for several days afterwards, there was no measurable increase in ammonia. I would be very careful about adding more than a couple fish at a time though, but I'm not very experienced yet.
matt

 

[tagg]

I'm very happy with their service also.
5 orders so far. Inverts always excelent shape!
Had a pronlem with DOA fish, but they were replaced on the next order. {prob because I'm in the coldest far NE corner of MN.}
I highly recomend swf.com
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