Pros and Cons of Getting LIVE Fish From These Sellers
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 11. 07. 2024
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0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Affiliate / Sponsor Aqua Huna
0:26 - Shopping at Local Fish Stores
1:28 - Pros of Shopping at a Local Fish Store
2:20 - Local Aquarium Clubs
3:23 - Buying Fish on Aquabid
4:59 - Shopping at Aqua Huna
7:02 - Buying Fish on eBay
7:45 - How I Managed to Get my Animals
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Iâve been selling apistos on eBay and sometimes aquabid for 2 years. Im a part of all the apisto groups online which is now where most of my sales come from. Iâm at over 1100 orders so far and not a single negative or neutral review. I bust my ass to pack the right way and I only keep the highest quality. Now Iâm even supplying farms in my state with apistos. I still work full time but I could quit at any time to just sell fish. This hobby changed my life! Itâs amazing
Congrats ! Massive respect , we have a lady who does the same in my country . Apistos are the best thing to sell
How do I look you up?
Well done. Happy days.
I wish I had a store like aquarium co-op around me..
So lucky to have Aquarium Co-op as my LFS
I've been thinking about getting some new fish feeling a little burnt out lately. Quality video as always thanks for the info and tips
I've gotten some really cool new fish lately and I am just loving getting to know them and how they're going to act in my tanks.
Corey we appreciate how honest and upfront you are. I hope to visit your store some day. Coming from Minnesota.
Iâve ordered twice from AquaHuna and had no issues. Iâve gotten clown killifish and bamboo shrimp. Highly recommend
I've used them once with no problem
Thanks for sharing information, and your experiences!
Cory that was a very helpful video! Thanks for cranking out high quality, info packed vids. I'm on the level where I am bored of the fish I see at my LFS or box stores and ready for the next stage to order online. So this video gives me piece of mind now that I know what to expect and what I need to do. Also, I've ordered from Aquahuna before and was very satisfied.
Thank you Cory and Aquarium Co-op !đđżđđżđ
I wish we had a local fish store in my small town that wasnt Petsmart or Petco. Fish from these two stores are a hit or miss. And breeders are all 50+ miles away
Thanks for this video ,very helpful
Glad you posted this,I have been thinking of ordering some fish that my LFS hasnât been able to get on their list. You have tipped the scales towards me ordering.
Ive had excellent experiences with your plants and tips and I'm in Maine on a well, so all your advice has helped a lot! I did the Walstad Method on both my tanks and it's been a learning curve! I look forward to trying your fish suggestions.
Nice thanks Cory
Great video that was needed
Great information. Thanks Cory.
Thanks Cory for all your hard work and dedication. I love your vids! Keep em coming. đ€
Aqua Huna changed my hobby. My local store is hit and miss and I have always had trouble keeping their fish alive. I have had one fish from Aqua Huna come in bad out of 75 or so. Love 'em.
Based on your recommendation, Iâve ordered from Aqua Huns a couple times and have been happy with the fish and shrimp I received from them â€ïž
Twins Cities Guppies is a great place to get Guppies in Minnesota! Corey has a few types he has stated a few times.
I haven't ordered from Aqua-huna yet, but I'm sure I willđ
I like ordering from other fish fishtubers like Dan's Fish, LRB Aquatics, and KGTropicals, they feel like my LFS đ
Thanks Cory đđ
Yeah, I need to find a mom and pop shop. Seems like more times than not, when I buy from the chain stores. Iâll have issues.
Great tips as always
In Feburary is the International Fish Stock Exchange called Aqua Expo. Normaly it is in Oktober but because of corona it is in Feburary know.
The Aqua Expo does take place in Germany Dortmund and there are many many big Fish breeders from China, Amerika, Nether lands, Dutch âŠ
of cours there are also wholesalers and big companies like eheim, sera âŠ
Would you also considere to come there with dean?
Excellent video and awesome information! I learned of Aqua Huna for you and have placed multiple orders from them and have always been perfect. Thank you!
Ordered from Aquahuna and all my fish looked great and were nicely packaged. Iâm on the East coast. Ordered again and canât wait to get my new order.
So cool to hear my friend get a shoutout on here. I knew he had those turtles but had no idea youâre looking for them
I use both my local fish store and a couple of online stores. My "local" store is over an hour away. We do have petsmart, etc. about 35 minutes away, but they don't have a great selection. I order plants online and some standard fish.
Thanks Cory. Sounds like good advice.
I got some Panda Corys after seeing you guys recommended them on your website. Very pleased. Thanks.
Iâve had great luck with Aqua Huna
Wow some of the clips in the beginning of this video. Is that coral fish in pearlcity/aiea hawaii???? I go there all the time with my sister and her bf!!!! So cool!!! lol
Golden Aquarium here in Chicago, Illinois on the south side, I support. Great place to be and they stand by what they sell.
The fish from Aquapuna looked very healthy! Thanks for all the tips. đ
Tnx!!!
My fish arrived alive. First time ordering online. Thanks for the advice.
I ordereded some longfin peppered cprydoras from aquahuna and while I'm glad everyone made it and am very happy with the specimens they sent... the USPS delivered them to my parcel locker instead of my front porch... I had had to leave work early because my boyfriend couldn't find our mail key. It was warm that day too and they had been in there for hours.
I hate that!!! My usps people do the exact same thing and I'm Disabled so I can't even get to my mailbox without needing an ambulance....even if it's ordered through Amazon and usps is the delivery, they're so lazy they won't follow the instructions to leave at door. I even write DISABLED on the instructions and they don't care. I live in Florida and it was 91 degrees yesterday. They won't last 5 minutes in the parcel locker. I just ordered some gold laser corys so I'm hoping they follow instructions or, you can ask the seller for the usps tracking number because Amazon tracking for live fish is horrible. One time o got a delivery of denison barbs and they were fine...still doing fine, but the Amazon status said it wouldn't be delivered for like 3 weeks...Amazon tracking for live fish...don't trust their tracking
The part around 1 minute in about restaurants made me hungry though hahaha
I'm very lucky to live close to Dave's rare fish. He's a local breeder. He has all the 'Mbunas, Haps and Peacocks that I want. He also has way more selection than anyone else in the internet from what I've seen. Excellent breeder and person. Prices are very good too. Thanks for the video
I have ordered from Aqua Huna and The Wet Spot and had nothing but good experiences.
I had a great experience with Aqua Huna. I want to try The Wet Spot too because their selection is amazing.
Hard to beat aqua huna shipping cost and impossible to even match their doa policy
Thank you so much Cory!
I tried 3 orders last year, and tried to be responsible..... luckily I got great customer service (Candi must offer a customer service training course as a side hustle, or I got incredibly lucky) so it was disappointing instead of feeling burnt.
Maybe next year I will bravely try ordering fish online again, if my lfs still can't get me what I want.
Aqua Huna have always treated me very well
My son had good luck with Aquabid. The selling was responsive to email and took an extra effort to get the shipping just right.
Your a good guy, Cory!
Cool video.
I just ordered 6 lampeyes Killifish from aquahuna after my LFS could not get them in for me. Couldn't be happier with my experience
Good sources, Cory. AquaBid is one of my fav places to pick up some great home bred fish and shrimp.
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I drive 3 hours one way when I go fish shopping :/ I make a day of it and visit several fish stores.
That sounds like fun.
I've been very lucky on eBay - have ordered fish twice and got great fish both times. There are good sellers out there, but you gotten do your research.
Elmer is so goshdarn cute.
Awesome
Unfortunately my local spot isn't that great, however there are a couple 2 hours away that have been worth the trip
My local spot in Coram long island aqua hut is the jammm shrimp rare plecos and Nanos to salt water and everything inbeyeeen
This is an video I've been looking for over the last couple of days. Didn't know about aquabid at all. Great too because my local store here, while awesome, didnt have the fish I was looking for a while back. Otherwise I would have bought from them. Shout out to "Alaska Coral & Fish" in Anchorage.
Alaska Coral & Fish. Amazing store. Tiny in size. Huge in quality and variety. Changes every week.
@@purplebunny7728 great staff too
I just bought 2 plecos from Aqahuna and I am ordering my rommynose from them soon
Need to crank back up. After we all had Covid it took a while just to see to ourselves much less having fish depend on us.
Time to crank aquariums back up.
My only local fish store is petco đ thankfully the staff their is very educated on fish care though.
thans for the info.i just order 10 nano fisr from aqua huna
Thanks to see đ đ fish from Israel good luck đ đ fresh water
I'm now in the Boston area and planning a trip to Tropic Isle Aquarium in Framingham and New England Tropical Pet in Lowell. I am afraid to order online because I'd feel guilty if a fish didn't make it.
Dam boss I' don't know if I want to buy fish offline now or just go out for dinner lol. Thanks for all the great tips.
Sucks aqua huna doesn't ship to washington I would love to try them out since I only have a petco and petsmart near me and don't have too many fish to choose from. I ordered from The Wet Spot Tropical Fish after hearing good things and boy I was not disappointed my 25 cardinal tetras and five kuhli loaches arrived alive.
Prestige aquatics is another good online source
That curry looked delicious đ
In South Africa, imports have been a nightmare if it's not Johannesburg. Our domestic airlines have mostly gone bust. So stock arrives from the east at 6 am in Johannesburg. We can only get it on a 5pm flight to Durban. After clearing and transportation from the airport, we only get it at 7.30 pm. So the fish are in the bags an extra 13 hours, the the damage is done. Even from reliable sources, we are having a lot of mortalities. It's sad.
Another great video. I absolutely love Aquahuna never had a problem and their customer service is also amazing!!!
The most frustrating thing about my local fish store is their hours. My local fish store isn't open Sunday-Tuesday and they're only open from noon to 6 on the days they are. So when I need something for my tank Ive got to plan ahead or Ive got to accept going to the big box stores. My preference would be the local fish store even though its more expensive and further away because they have better product and better fish, but MAN those hours are tough to work with!
Iâm sad itâs hard to find vampire crabs in the Washington area. Iâve been meaning to check local clubs to see what I can get around here
i have 3 rlly good local fish store around me. not rlly local since 2 are like 20 min drive but my point is
on one of them, their tanks are always clean and good but my fish from there never makes it. they always die off for some reason. except for like snails and fancy shrimps.
like i thought shrimps needed better water but the shrimps lives forever but fish just dies. just weird. maybe has to be the water differnce
âTryna find that PS5 thatâs been outta stock foreverâ đ đ
Walmart has put all but 1 if our local fish stores out of business, but they are barely hanging on by selling everything but fish.
E-bay is very hit and miss for us, mostly miss! We used to stock our fish room via e-bay but found some really good other online sellers so try to stick to them now!
Man, I used to have a great LFS near me that I also bought my snake rats from. They closed down over covid and now all I have is one that is basically just tanks full of dead fish
I love Cory he is the best ever
I've bought from Aqua hauna about 5 times now, my water here in Texas is super hard ph of 8.5, tds is 320, gh kh is super high, so I started using Shrimp king with rodi water and I just put a tds of 225 and then bought celestrial pearl danios, panda corys, and gold cloud Minnows from Aqua Hauna and no deaths at all. All the fish came out of quarantine with no parasites, no ich, no illnesses whatsoever. Here in Texas it's super hot so they put an ice pack when shipping. I've also ordered shrimp and they did have the rostrum parasite but I medicated them, most survived and reproduce, I bought shrimp a second time and one had the green parasite under the carriage and the rest were fine and never developed it from that one that passed with treatment and was separated from the rest. Let me tell you they have the best customer service and guarantee your fish and shrimp from 3 days after you get your package and will refund your loss, just send the pics and boom refund for the loss. 12.99 for shipping come on you can't beat that, alot of previous online vendors don't even offer that price for shipping. Aqua Hauna has been good to me!
Everytime I check Aqua Huna, so many of their fish are sold out. :(
Ditto!
Youâve got that right I checked so many times it makes my head hurt so I gave up
Sucks for us in Washington, especially since many of us would be using same water supply or something close.
After learning of Aqua Huna from this video, I ordered 20 cardinal tetras. They arrived alive per their guarantee. But such poor quality fish. They went into a fully cycled 10 gal quarantine tank. After about 2 weeks, 17 out of 20 fish were dead. Poor customer service, too... When I contacted them via email, after a week, they still had not responded. It would have been nice to at least hear an "I'm sorry" from them. Find some place else to shop!
For a follow up, their customer service finally got back to me. We were able to work out a plan that we both agreed on. If I shop online for livestock again, I would consider Aqua Huna. It's a shame their customer service is so slow to respond. Cheers!
I asked my LFS to order a "neat" catfish for me. I didn't really have a preference, I just wanted something different. (I had 2 Synodontis, 4 Pictus Cats, and 2 Raphaels already). She called me 2 weeks later and said she had something I would love! I picked it up and it was super small, so I put him in my 30 gallon tank to grow out. It turned out to be what we call a "mud cat"!!!!! They are everywhere inTennessee!!! That thing grew to over 8" in my 55 gallon tank so I skipped putting him in my 125 and ended up putting him in my stock pond in my horse pasture where he's almost 3 feet long now! But my husband likes him. LOL!!!!!
What sharks do you recommend for ten gallon tanks that donât get to big
My 1 lfs is HORRIBLE and the two an hour away are mediocre at best. I've actually had great success on Ebay for plants, snails, shrimp, chili rasboras and gorgeous plakat bettas so far for my nano tanks. Hit the sweet spot between too hot in Georgia and too cold coming from the midwest/west coast. Everything was packaged up really well and was so reasonably priced that shipping was about the same as what I would spend driving to the mediocre LFS an hour away.
Just checked aquahuna again - everything I looked for in July that was sold out... is still sold out. Window closing for safe shipping with winter imminent for parts of the US.
I've payed one day shipping from the other side of the country for a $3.99 fish.
I picked up 8 cherry barbs and 6 Cory's from aqua huna and everything came alive and still is 8 months later.
That shirt is lit Cory
I agree. Where is it from?
I have had excellent experiences with Aqua Huna. Love them.
I had one good order from aquahuna and 2 bad. Will order my fish elsewhere. However their live arrival guarantee is top notch.
I prefer my local fish store....aquarium coop
I have 2 local fish stores, nether have much. Not even tanks for sale no rare fish and expensive. The one has quality fish that I've had great luck with. The other are always sick or dying and have gotten so much bad info there regarding cares and sizes of certain fish. As bad as PetSmart, Petco is hit and miss around here. Think I'm going to order a dovii since the impossible to find around here. Usually just green terrors and jacks. I have a haitensis and wanna try the real monster now so obviously anything local don't fit what I'm looking for. Where should I order my dovii from that has quality fish
Do you know where I can find dwarf pike cichlids??
Only issue I've had with Aquahuna is their Julii corydoras. They're not Julii, I ordered some like 6 months ago and they are Corydoras Trillineatus. They're really cool, but not exactly what I ordered.
Aqua Huna has always done great for me.
I think I only have the box stores near me. Sucks
I have fish stores near me but all except one aren't well kept the one that is I just had a horrible experience so now im buying from aqua huna
i can t find any where to buy just 1 or 2 fish .. online either
I wish I had a local club I would love to see what other people in my area keep
Sometimes they are under the radar. Our local enthusiast group is not really a club. As one person put it more a support group. You need to have 10 or more tanks to be invited. Maybe face book would be a place to look. I just go to my LFS regularly. When it's mostly empty I follow them around while they are doing chores. They tell me things. When they are talking to potential buyers I stand waaay back and listen. Not a club. But a way to connect and learn. Happy hunting.
I have to drive at least 2 1/2 hours to the nearest fish club , next closest are 4 1/2 to 6 hours away .
Ok fish stores are about an hour away , I try to visit fish stores on road trips .
I'll be visiting family in October and November so I can visit some of my favorite
Chicago stingrays is a amazing company.
Where do you get your turtles
What fish were those @ 1:38 that guys look so nice !!!
Green neon tetras?
Hi my friend, I have a 6ft amazon tank full of plants, wood and lots of Cardinal tetras, problem is snails are really taking over, what can i do?
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