I need to be smarter about my shipping, I usually spend as much on shipping if not more sometimes than the fish. When i find what I’m looking for and there’s only one or two available, I go for it. Fortunately I think I’m done buying anything for a while lolI've looked at Lonestar. Texas and Florida are expensive to ship to MA, i think Lonestar offers a flat rate of $48. However, unlike some other groups there is seldom more than 1 item i'd like to get from them at a time. i try to get my orders up to a dollar amount where shipping is less than 1/6th of the cost. In my head that feels like a decent distribution of cost per fish.
exotic is only $20 to ship to me, so that figure may be lower when i use them.