SaltyDawg Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 Flying Fish Express is having a sale on all of their live rock. 45lbs walt smith 165$ including shipping, 45# Tonga 200$ including shipping, 45# Aqua cultured Fiji 175$ including shipping. Shipping is overnite. Just thought I would share this with you guys. Link to comment
ChrisIsBored Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 Yeesh... that's a sale? Seems kinda expensive to me. :*( Link to comment
scruz Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 thats like 4 bucks a pound shipped seems ok to me. Link to comment
NaNO ReeFiN Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 My LFS is having a sale on all fiji, tonga, and any other kind of live rock they have in stock for 3.50/lb.. Link to comment
ChrisIsBored Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 Originally posted by scruz thats like 4 bucks a pound shipped seems ok to me. Yeah I guess you're right.. plus it's Walt Smith so it's more than likely good quality. I've heard a story from one person though who ordered from walt smith and received some pretty cruddy rock... WS Fiji - $3.66/lb to your door Tonga - $4.44/lb to your door AC Fiji - $3.88/lb to your door Lucky for me.. i'm working on a website for a local fish store and that should cover my charges for LR. Plus this shop only charges $3.10/lb(Fiji) for a 45lb box if you take it right away rather than him storing it in their tanks. Link to comment
vanessa Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 geez where do you guys live that they sell LR that cheap??? There are pretty much only 2-3 decent stores around here for anything salt water related and the cheapest they sell LR for is $5.50/lb. I've seen it as high as $6.99. Wish I lived where you guys do. Link to comment
~_~ Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 I live near Jeff's exoticfish and it's 2.45 a pound for handpicked fiji, or 2.95 a pound for the ultra premium fiji. Not too bad for handpicked , zzz Link to comment
ChrisIsBored Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 Originally posted by vanessa geez where do you guys live that they sell LR that cheap??? There are pretty much only 2-3 decent stores around here for anything salt water related and the cheapest they sell LR for is $5.50/lb. I've seen it as high as $6.99. Wish I lived where you guys do. Yeah actually that's the only store that will do that. Any LR from their tanks will cost your $4.25/lb. Another store has Fiji for $4.50/lb. And the largest store around here used to sell Fiji for $4.99/lb but they've switched to selling Tonga rock only now and they charge $7.99/lb. :x Link to comment
Dave ESPI Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 11.99 RETAIL fer Premium here localy. PS: 90% of the Walt Smith rock sucks ass that I have seen recently. Tonga branch is tough to like. It always has a 80 %dieoff factor, and does NOT have a lot of worms in it. I have rock on aquabid.com right now also if anyone is interested. Auction # 1045086517 since were dole'n out the free spam in this thread Link to comment
Spencerx Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 its like $8 pp for the base rock and $20 for the premium shiat around here..... Link to comment
SaltyDawg Posted February 15, 2003 Author Share Posted February 15, 2003 6 bucks a pound for cured fiji around here. IE jacks pets and aquariums. Link to comment
FlyGTI Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 Most of the stores here in Des Moines are the type that gouge the prices, too. The rock looks like poo, all sorts of aiptasia and brown algae on it, no coralline. Basically, they're charging $9.50/lb. for base rock. Anything that looks nice is probably $2 or $3 higher. Link to comment
TStaut Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 $8.99/lb for crappy, I mean CRAPPY, fiji in Dallas/Ft Worth. Link to comment
ChrisIsBored Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 Originally posted by TStaut $8.99/lb for crappy, I mean CRAPPY, fiji in Dallas/Ft Worth. If you're in the DFW area you're lucky.. you have www.themarinecenter.com to buy from. They charge $10 shipping in the area, and $20 shipping throughout Texas. Prem. Fiji (less than full box) $3.99/lb Prem. Fiji (45#) $2.99/lb Ex. Lrg. Prem Fiji (45#) $3.99/lb Savaii Ultra Prem. (70#) $4.50/lb Link to comment
J-Bass Posted February 15, 2003 Share Posted February 15, 2003 Jeff's Exotic is the shiznit for live rock if you live in so.cal. Plus for small tanks, you can usually find some nice pieces in the $1.50 per lb. bin. Just make sure you go like on Tuesdays, when they get new shipments and are stocked. Link to comment
WhiteRat Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Amusingly, there's a store near me that has a big container of 'live rock' which looks like utter and complete crap. Then they have another container of 'live coral', some of which is alright, some of which is pretty sucky. But amusingly a hunk of live rock got put into the 'live coral' tank labelled 'coralline algae rock' at $8.99. And yes, before you ask, none of the 'live rock' in the 'live rock' tank has anything remotely resembling coralline on it. Sad. Ratty Link to comment
justin699 Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Aqua Life Aquarium in Rocklin has some good stuff Link to comment
Bastianelli Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 Screw all you... j/k LR Around Here; $8/lb for Walt Smith that has literly been totally dry sitting in a box on a shelf for a few weeks. $10/lb for tonga branch that is preatty much cured, but not much color at all. $8/lb for some very dense fuji that is cured but no great coloring. (no coraline at all, lol) Thats just whats on top of my head, and some how ended up putting a 70lb mix into my 90g of the tonga and fuji. Then added 15lbs from my established 10g. For the rest tho I think I am gonna order that $130 special at gulf-view. Link to comment
WhiteRat Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 So here's a question. What do you folks think'd be an appropriate price for a hunk of rock that was: 1) Fully cured, as in 'is in my aquarium and has been there for quite a while' 2) 80-90% covered in bright purple and green coralline 3) Has a few small softy frags spliced to it. How much'd you pay? Note, this is a THEORETICAL piece of rock... Ratty Link to comment
vanessa Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 hmm well I just paid a guy who is in my reef club $80 for the following... #20 lbs fiji LR covered in coralline growth 5 small mushrooms 2 heads of candy cane coral frag 3Lbs live rock with green star polyps all over it... so depending on how much the LR weighed I would probably pay $3/lb for the rock and then maybe $5 for each frag of coral on the rock. Link to comment
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