CORAL DELIVERY DAY!!!! Super exciting! We both woke up and refreshed the FedEx tracking every few minutes.
POV my reaction when the page read “DELIVERED”
Sooooo…. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there today for the unboxing so the whole thing from unboxing, to dipping, to rinsing and getting everything in the tank, was all on @Kerber13.
Here’s a list of what we ended up getting when @WWC really twisted our arms with their recent sale… Side note, this was my first live sale and OMG it was fun trying to jump in and get corals we wanted before they were snatched up. Definitely didn’t get everything we wanted but all in all, really happy with the haul.
Box inside! (We were both expecting a bigger box but maybe efficiency is a virtue?)... pls ignore the dirty glas… it got cleaned later
After delivery, @Kerber13 had to go work his “day job” so he set up the 25 (25!) bags of coral in our “dialysis tank” to temp acclimate and maintain temperature until he could come back and deal with getting everything properly sorted into the tank. Here you can see that he ziptied the bags away from the return so that the tub didn’t overflow:
When he got home, he went in. We dip, remove frag plugs or any excess media, and then rinse twice; visually inspecting each coral before it enters the tank.
He worked in batches. Here are the first few frags in the tank… small but healthy looking!
Meanwhile…. I was making friends with this doge….
Okay, back to coral… as he was working and examining the pieces, @Kerber13 and his little eye spied something squishy…. Could it be a baby mushy!?!
After getting everything in the tank, it was getting pretty late and blues were on so they new little frags are going to hang out in the sand bed until tomorrow… hoping they don’t get pulled under by the pistol shrimp -_-
That's all for tonight, I can't wait to see how he places them tomorrow
POV my reaction when the page read “DELIVERED”
Sooooo…. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there today for the unboxing so the whole thing from unboxing, to dipping, to rinsing and getting everything in the tank, was all on @Kerber13.
Here’s a list of what we ended up getting when @WWC really twisted our arms with their recent sale… Side note, this was my first live sale and OMG it was fun trying to jump in and get corals we wanted before they were snatched up. Definitely didn’t get everything we wanted but all in all, really happy with the haul.
Zoanthids: Tic Tack Zoas Detonator Zoa Mohawk Zoas Fire and Ice Zoas Blow Pop Zoanthids Moon Beam Zoa Echinata: Earthbound Echinata Ahhmazing Echinata Mushrooms: Lime Crusher Yuma Purple Dot Disco Bowerbanki: Rhubarb Pie Bowerbanki Alien Planet Bowerbanki | Favias: Cosmic Cranberry Favia Raspberry Ice Favia Rockin Redneck Favia Celtic War Paint Favia Platygyra: Cosmos Platygyra Regal Platygyra A Mystery Platy (we’re pretty sure it's another regal ) Cyphastrea & Random Stuff Bronco Berry Cyphastrea Mystique Cyphastrea Blue Heron Turbinaria Watermelon Psammo Green Duncan JF Blueberry Blast Hydnophora |
Box inside! (We were both expecting a bigger box but maybe efficiency is a virtue?)... pls ignore the dirty glas… it got cleaned later
After delivery, @Kerber13 had to go work his “day job” so he set up the 25 (25!) bags of coral in our “dialysis tank” to temp acclimate and maintain temperature until he could come back and deal with getting everything properly sorted into the tank. Here you can see that he ziptied the bags away from the return so that the tub didn’t overflow:
When he got home, he went in. We dip, remove frag plugs or any excess media, and then rinse twice; visually inspecting each coral before it enters the tank.
He worked in batches. Here are the first few frags in the tank… small but healthy looking!
Meanwhile…. I was making friends with this doge….
Okay, back to coral… as he was working and examining the pieces, @Kerber13 and his little eye spied something squishy…. Could it be a baby mushy!?!
After getting everything in the tank, it was getting pretty late and blues were on so they new little frags are going to hang out in the sand bed until tomorrow… hoping they don’t get pulled under by the pistol shrimp -_-
That's all for tonight, I can't wait to see how he places them tomorrow
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