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On the 17th of April, I received my first shipment of corals from a fellow hobbiest. After the headache with the previous company, wasn't ever going to order online again, but after seeing this flricoridia's stock I just couldn't resist; Way nice, I'd order from him again in a heartbeat (in fact I have several times)!
Here is what they looked like upon arrival (made the mistake of shipping 2-day express USPS; of course it took 3 days to get them; then they got misplaced when they arrived, so I didn't find them to 6:30pm that night ~ water smelled bad, so dumped and transfered instantly to tank water. Found out later this is "proper" form of acclimation for these ~ thank goodness!);
Here they are four hours later (Only lost one);
On the 22nd of April, I placed and glued several of the new ricordias onto my rock (after seeing high end ricordia and zoas, I'd already decided this was going to be a ricordia and zoa dominated tank);
And a close up of one;
I also placed several other corals:
Green Mushroom Leather;
A Purple bullseye mushroom I aquired from the LFS (wasn't any bigger than a pencil eraser, but boy was it expensive!);
While I was cleaning the tank to get some pictures, I bumped the orange carnation coral and knocked off one of the polyps ~ decided to glue it to LR also (can you tell my original Orange-blue ricordia is splitting?);
The next day I took some more detailed shots of the tank.
Right side Detail;
And a little Closer;
Left side Detail (you can see the purple plating monti cap in this shot);
And Top Center (AoG, Incredible Hulks, and Red Gonipora);
Here is what they looked like upon arrival (made the mistake of shipping 2-day express USPS; of course it took 3 days to get them; then they got misplaced when they arrived, so I didn't find them to 6:30pm that night ~ water smelled bad, so dumped and transfered instantly to tank water. Found out later this is "proper" form of acclimation for these ~ thank goodness!);
Here they are four hours later (Only lost one);
On the 22nd of April, I placed and glued several of the new ricordias onto my rock (after seeing high end ricordia and zoas, I'd already decided this was going to be a ricordia and zoa dominated tank);
And a close up of one;
I also placed several other corals:
Green Mushroom Leather;
A Purple bullseye mushroom I aquired from the LFS (wasn't any bigger than a pencil eraser, but boy was it expensive!);
While I was cleaning the tank to get some pictures, I bumped the orange carnation coral and knocked off one of the polyps ~ decided to glue it to LR also (can you tell my original Orange-blue ricordia is splitting?);
The next day I took some more detailed shots of the tank.
Right side Detail;
And a little Closer;
Left side Detail (you can see the purple plating monti cap in this shot);
And Top Center (AoG, Incredible Hulks, and Red Gonipora);
