Super Nano Fish

[SkiFletch]

heh, yeah look up the contact number and call them. Here's their price list, down at the botto of the left column you see "one wennerae mantis shrimp delivered to your door". You can order from the website, but TBSW works much better from the phone

If you do go with a mantis shrimp, I'd make it more of a species only tank cause mantids will eventually eat any small fish you have in there with it. they are predators afterall. You can have lots of corals in there though which combined with the intelligence of the shrimp are the two main allures of such a setup.

 

[BigBeginner]

ok, any type of mantis you would recommend for this size? the N. Wennerae?
ill probably start a journal on this tank so i can ask more questions as i go

whats teh difference between the Mantis, Wennerae and the One Wennerae Mantis,
delivered to your door, why is there a 40$ difference

and ill try calling them

 

[SkiFletch]

Well, its the shipping. The base price is 10 bucks and the overnight guaranteed to your door shipping is $40. The idea behind the base price is in case you wanted to order lots of things then you'd get a break on the shipping. Make sense? Overnight shipping heavy boxes of water with heating packs or ice packs and insuring them isn't exactly cheap . When you call them if you havent purchased rock already you might want to ask them if they do any small orders and can piggyback some rock in with the order. Their LR is definitely the best you can get this side of the atlantic because it's aquacultured and therefore not subject to CITES regulations.

 

[BigBeginner]

i kinda get it, so like shipping for the mantis is 40+10 for the mantis but if were to buy rocks at the same time it would be 10+LRprice+LRshipping instead of 10+40+LR+LRshipping?

When you say small orders and piggyback, you mean like a small amount of rocks so i dont have to pay the mantis shipping and get some really good liverock?

 

[SkiFletch]

yeah, when you order multiple items from them (or any online livestock provider) the shipping cost per item goes down. And since TBSW does ship LR cured in water, you can just start the tank right away when the rock and mantis gets there. So like if you ordered just the mantis alone you'd pay $40 in shipping for the mantis. And lets say you ordered some rock alone you'd pay (for numbers sake) $50 in shipping. Order the two together and you'd probably pay total $70 in shipping. Its like volume discounts

 

[BigBeginner]

Ooo ok that makes sense. I wish I didnt already have live rock >.< maybe ill still buy some and put this rock in my other tank. Although my other tank is very full of rocks.