Frags 'N Crabs

[MikeDeL]

I would like to try these guys out. Anyone interested in making an order with them toward the end of the month? One thing though. I know I wont be able to get off work to recieve the order since I am extremly busy with all this hail. If we cant get a Saterday delivery I will buy a frag for the person who volunteers to recieve the order.

www.fragsncrabs.com

[Viet-Tin]

Im thinking of ordering some stuff from them. Will they ship to the door or will it have to be picked up at airport? Ill be able to take the order in if it comes to my door.

[blueboy]

i was looking at doing an order with those guys too, i'll jump in when it gets closer.

[GaryP]

He ships by express truck from Houston, not by air. You may have to pick it up at the trucking company.

[Viet-Tin]

That might be a problem then, I cant drive yet and might not be able to pick the order up.

[Kylaohhh]

He ships to your door. And not only are his prices good but the quality of the frags is very high. I received the Frags and Crabs package plus a few things. They were left at my door at 8 am the day after shipping. I was impressed to say the least. It gave me the whole day to acclimate my new stuff and other than losing a mushroom...everything is still happy and healthy. Shipping costs $20.00 but is well worth it for that kind of service. I would highly recommend Frags and Crabs o anyone who is interested.

[CD]

Mike, I'd be happy to receive the order as long as it comes to the door (car still inop), but I would be afraid to float bags in any of our tanks or sump right now due to the velvet problem we are having. I could keep the stuff temp. regulated w/o floating, but definitely wouldn't want to float bags. LMK. I may possibly want to order something too...would let you know for sure closer to order time.

Wendy

[fragsncrabs]

Just to verify.....we use Lonestar Overnight. so they will ship right to your door. For a group order we will bag up everyones order individually and send it all together to make shipping costs as low as possible.....also, depending on the size of the order we may be able to subsidize a portion of the shipping costs.

By the way....we sent in our info yesterday to become a sponsor of MAAST!

[fragsncrabs]

Also, if there's anything your looking for that we don't have listed on our website (www.fragsncrabs.com) just let us know and we will do our best to get it in for you....This includes critters, frags, or even full sized coras. Just send us an email (service@fragsncrabs.com) or a PM and we can let you know if we can get it and how much it would cost. We also have a mailing list where we send out information about all our new shipments...if you would like to join it just send us an email with the subject "Mailing List". We won't give out your address to anyone else...we promise.

[fishy1171]

They have a new order coming in on 4/14 I would like to get in on the order after I see what comes in then!

[jtsam]

i'd probly like to get in on this too, definately if they still have small croceas when the order goes through

[sharkie]

I may be interested in some trochus and cerith snails if you put together an order.

chiu

p.s. depending which day it is being delivered, I may be able to take delivery also.

[bigelow]

Hi,

I am interested in getting in on this order, for probably about $25 worth of his frags.

thanks!

[fragsncrabs]

We just got in a bunch of Coco worms, Zoas, Shrooms, Giant Feather Dusters, Staghorn Hermits, Candy Coral, and some other misc. items.......will post pictures soon.

[fishy1171]

this might be a dumb question, but when we know what we want do we reserve them here or do we email fragsncrabs?

[fragsncrabs]

sending us an email with your order is best. Thanks!

[Kylaohhh]

email frags n crabs. There's a contact us link. I think it's sales@fragsncrabs.com. Just type in what you want and they will respond.

[fragsncrabs]

http://www.maast.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=104398#10 4398

We got our shipment in....click on the link above to see items and prices

[bigelow]

I'm in for $30 and have reserved my corals. I need to get in on the Austin order, and if needed I could accept delivery.

[MikeDeL]

Wendy (CD) has agreed to recieve the order for everyone. We are planning on the afternoon of the Thursday the 28th.

[CD]

I would like that med. frag of the Yellow Porites (in the pic it looks like a hand turned sideways) and a frag of the fancy acro. How do we know whether or not it's been reserved already? Can FragsNCrabs post an updated list of what's still availb.?

Wendy

[fragsncrabs]

Wendy,

We'll reserve it for you. We'll take the picture off of our site if we run out of something. So far we have orders in from Wendy, Jennifer, and Loren. Once all the orders come in we'll send out Paypal payment request to each person individually so you don't have to mess with making on big payment.

If you are planning on receiving the order on the 28th, we should have even more stuff available by then. If sales go well next week we'll probably get a new shipment in on Monday, the 25th. We will keep you posted.

[CD]

We'll reserve it for you.


Thank you!! So did you still have that particular Y. Porites that looks kinda like a hand turned sideways in the pic? That's a nice piece :D

Wendy

[fragsncrabs]

I'm not sure if we still have that exact one....I will check in the morning, and if so I'll set it aside for you.

[CD]

That's cool either way. LOL - it just kinda reminded me of something from the movie "Edward Scissorhands" Thanks again :D

Wendy

[fragsncrabs]

Good news Wendy,

We have one piece of the Yellow Porities left....and it's the one from the picture that you want. I set it aside for you. :)

[CD]

it's the one from the picture that you want. I set it aside for you.


Awesome!!! Thanks :D

Wendy

[MikeDeL]

Everyone interested in this group order try to get their order in this weekend, that way we have time to get our payments in and have it here by the 28th.


Thanks,
Mike

[fragsncrabs]

Here are pics of our latest arrivals.....this will probably be the last shipment we get before the group order is sent.

http://www.fragsncrabs.com/newfrags.htm

[VeeDub]

Mike,

Please let us know when we need to pay for the order.

Chris

[Viet-Tin]

So we just email or pm fragsncrabs our order and send money in right?

[MikeDeL]

Yes email or pm fragsncrabs your order and they will give everyones.

[demodiki]

So is the shipping cost waived for this big order, or is it going to be split evenly among those who order? I need to think about getting some hermits

[fragsncrabs]

It really depends on how much the total order is....we will eat some of the shipping costs for sure though.

[sharkie]

I just submitted my part of the order to them.

chiu

[fragsncrabs]

Ok, so far we have 4 orders in....Wendy, Chiu, Joshua, and Loren

[MikeDeL]

I will submit my order just as soon as Wendy tells me what frag she wants.

[CD]

as soon as Wendy tells me what frag she wants


Hmmm...well, I like surprises, so how about either mushroom #15 (blue polka-dots) or a small frag of pink birdsnest?

Will we be notified of a total once everybody that's going to order reserves their stuff? (incl. shpg.)

Wendy

[demodiki]

Just placed a small order for 25 blue leg hermits I'd like to add to the bunch.

Danny

[fragsncrabs]

Will we be notified of a total once everybody that's going to order reserves their stuff? (incl. shpg.)

Wendy

Yep

[fragsncrabs]

If you want in on this group order please have your order in by midnight tonight.

[fragsncrabs]

Can we get the zipcode where we will be sending this too so we can do a rough estimate of what shipping will be?

[CD]

Can we get the zipcode


78728 (It's coming to my house)

Wendy

[fragsncrabs]

Ok, we ended up with 6 people on the group order (Loren, Wendy, Josh, Chiu, Danny, Mike)

If we do next day end of business day shipping (which still usually arrives in the morning) shipping would be considerable less.....probably around $40-45 as opposed to $70-80 for next day 10:30 am delivery. (Like we said, the package will usually arrive in the morning either way....but obviously with the end of business day option Lone Star has the right to deliver around 6:00 pm is they so choose.

Let us know which way you want to go. We will take on some of the shipping costs, and pro-rate the rest to each of you individually based on the size of your order. We will then send out individual payment requests to each of you, and we will send the package off tomorrow evening.

Thanks!

[CD]

If we're taking a vote here, I'd say "next day end of business day" shipping for $40-45.

Wendy

[sharkie]

I vote to save money (EOD), especially if it will probably still arrive the next morning. But either way is fine with me.

[demodiki]

I'm all about being cheap.

[MikeDeL]

Im a cheap ***** too. LOL

[fragsncrabs]

Ok, it looks like we'll send it end of day then. We will just add 10% on to each person's order for shipping, and we'll take care of anything left over. I think the total order comes out to about $280.....I'm preparing the invoices now. If you did not send us your order via email, can you please send your email address to us at service@fragsncrabs.com ?

Thanks!

[CD]

send your email address


eMail sent includes our regular eMail addy, our home address, and 'ph. number (in case you need it).

As far as the people picking up their orders, please PM me your ph. numbers so I can call you when it is delivered (Mike-I have your numbers, but no one elses). I will respond to these PMs to let you know I got them, and will include our home address and/or directions if you need them.

Wendy

[CD]

FragsNCrabs,
Our payment has been made.
The shipping addy with PayPal is also correct.
Thanks.

Wendy

[sharkie]

just sent mine too

[demodiki]

Wife says she paid...can I trust her?

[fragsncrabs]

yep.....we got it. We've now received 4 of the 6 payments.

[fragsncrabs]

Ok...someone just cancelled on us....so there's only 1 person left that needs to pay.

[fragsncrabs]

We sent the shipment off. The lone star tracking # is 34191441.

[CD]

ORDER IS IN!! Wow, that was fast :o

It's 9:53am, and box is here already - now that's service!
Have called bigelow, sharkie, and demodiki....left msgs. for MikeDel on both his cell and hm. numbers. Availb. for pick up all day...bags are out of the box and floating in my sump and tanks...critters look good from what I can tell, and I've started dripping my two corals already and even got a bonus snail in the deal :P
The porites looks great (nice piece), and the fancy acro looks OK (will have to see how it looks after acclimation).

Wendy

[sharkie]

Thanks for putting together the order!

The only thing that did not make it in my order were my cerith snails. Everything else is doing fine.

My only question for fragncrabs is the salinity. When I measured the salinity, it was 1.029. Wendy mentioned that she measured 1.031 in the shipping water. Is there a reason the salinity is so high? It took me a while to acclimate them down to my water.

chiu

[fragsncrabs]

Interesting.....ours measures at 1.027 .....Did all of your ceriths die? We will replace them.

[demodiki]

We just dumped ours in and I think most lived. They had a little war with our snails and...looks like the crabs won this morning.

[sharkie]

OK... I lied, the cerith snails did make it. I thought they were goners, so just threw the shells in to the tank, so the hermies could use them, but to my surprise, they came out and moved around a couple of days later.

However, my fancy acro definately did not make it.

Wendy: Did your fancy acro make it?

FragNCrabs: Thanks for the offer to replace the cerith snails, but as I said before, I was mistaken.

Overall, everything else is doing great. I especially liked the way Mushroom#15 looks in person

chiu

[CD]

Wendy: Did your fancy acro make it?


Well, it's not RTN'ing but there's no polyp extension. I was careful to keep the eggcrate over the tank for about 7/8ths of the day for the first couple of days to make sure it wouldn't fry under the MHs. Anyway, jury is still out on that one...I'll keep you posted. What happened to your frag of fancy acro, and are you sure it's a gonner?

Porites still looking good, although I'm keeping it towards the sandbed. Pink birdsnest frag still looking good, and polyp extention is improving...BTW the size of these frags are impressive. :)



I especially liked the way Mushroom#15 looks in person


That WAS a nice looking 'shroom! I considered getting one too...maybe on the next order :D

Wendy

[fragsncrabs]

Are you sure the fancy acro is dead? It took quite a while for it to color up and show it's polyps when we first introduced it to our tanks.

[sharkie]

HI FragNCrabs,

So, I've been watching it for a while now and I am pretty sure it is dead. It has not extended any polyps and it is pretty much white now. :(

chiu

[fragsncrabs]

Ok....remind us that we owe you a free frag on the next order.