SeaMountain Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Get this... Stopped by the LFS and as always no prices on tanks for SW stuff... I was thinking about dropping in one hermit to start on algae and basically to have something to watch for another couple of weeks while tank settles in. I ask a young gal working there, "How much for the red leg?" and she has no idea. Tells me she'll check and come back... After about 10 minutes of staring into their badly kept SW tanks, she returns. Apparently the Blue Legs are $4.99... Okay I thought... I would pay $4.99 to take ONE home today just for kicks... Then she drops on me the Red Legs were $12.99!!! YIKES!!! I cry!!! $12.99!?!? OLS's have them for $1.99 as a rule! Are Red Legs this high in your LFS's? ??? Link to comment
Satchmo Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Not quite that high, but they're pricey. $3-$5 a pop, depending on where I go. I won't get inverts like that at LFSs anymore. You should see if there's someone else in your corner of the world who can split a Just Phish order with you. For $30 each your tanks will be crawling with little creatures. Link to comment
jojopus Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 The reef store i go to sells blue legs and astrea snails for $1.00 a peice. $1.50 if they are covered in corraline algea and the red legs are $3.50. Thier corals tend to be a bit over priced however....... Link to comment
sonic Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 blue legs = .99 red legs = 1.99 Link to comment
Satchmo Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 You bastages in South Florida and SoCal have it way too easy. Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Here in Columbus Ohio I think the average price is $4 or $5. Link to comment
freakaccident Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 $2 at PA around the corner from my house. Link to comment
lizbeth Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 The on the corner LFS. Hermits start at 3 and go to about 6. Jeff's 20 minutes away with no traffic. Red legs-.75, blue legs-$1, left handed- $1. I drive take the drive. Link to comment
LakerFan Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 depends on the stores you go to here in SoCal. Lizbeth's prices are pretty much on point, but there's a LFS by my house that sells all the snails/hermits they get for $1 each. Sometimes I just ask him for some when I get water or corals, and he just grabs them out of the tank and plops them into a bad NO CHARGE. I guess it helps that I give him xenia for store credit Link to comment
~_~ Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 LFS Reef Collection sent me an email last night about there new arrivals. One of them was, Red Leg Hermits $0.65 each or buy 20 get 8 free There Prices makes jeff's look expensive =] Link to comment
Acoustic Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 The most my LFS's in San Diego area sell hermies is $2.00. Link to comment
Bucket o Chum Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 In Lanc. PA they cost Red legs= $ .99 Blue legs= $ .99 Scarlet reefs= $ 1.99 Link to comment
zizmans Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Seattle, WA - I buy Red Tips for $1.49. Great cleaners. Red Leg $1.99 and that's individual. I could see a small queen conch going for 12.99. I hope you have other LFS options in your area. Link to comment
wmfink Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Take the highest price you can find and then multiply by 2 or 3 then add a few bucks. This is close to what anything costs here in NYC at New World Aquarium. Monopolys be damned! Link to comment
lostdog Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I saw red leg's for $2.99 in Issaquah, WA. (just outside Seattle) Link to comment
matteo_gugliotta Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 It's difficult to find them in Italy. I got a zebra hermit for 9€. Astrea snails cost also 9€. Anyone shipping to Italy ? Link to comment
technoshaman Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 they are about 3 bucks here in Austin. Reasonable price IMO. Link to comment
Dave ESPI Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 it all depends on sizes also. you can buy small or PINHEAD crabs cheeply, but they generly fight a lot for new homes at they grow, and unless you have a bunch of shells, they will die or get eaten. Average COST to any LFS is .65 to 1.95 per crab. Mark up is usualy 200 % above cost. SOme places (due to remote shipping or market yield) ie: East coast aka NYC, can get upwards of 7.00-12.00 each. It is ludicrius I agree, but if 'tards want to pay that, then so be it. Some people have the $ and don't care. I for one will spend my money elsewhere. My price, 3.00 a crab. Average decent sized. SNAILS are on the uprise in cost though...... I pay upwards of 1.50 each now COST... but they are healthy and good sized. Liz, for those low prices, be aware you are walking off the street into a wholesaler.... I am very ####ed that a retail customer can walkinto his stire and buy stuff from him cheeper than I can get it PLUSS pay to have it sent to me..... its just bad buisness and cutthroat at best when he sends me over priced wholesale "Transship" price sheets and charges for rebag/air in non direct flights. Link to comment
reefan Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Freakaccident you talking about That Fish Place??? I am about 10 mins away. JJ Link to comment
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