Whats the biggest coral that you have shipped

akabryanhall · Feb 16, 2011

Or had shipped to you? I may have to ship a chalice that is about the size of a dinner plate.

AquaWorldPSC · Feb 16, 2011

An acropora colony about 12" the size of a basketball after all the branches. I shipped it in a standard size shipment box 20x20x16 ish with is floating upside down on a piece of styro. Needles to say it arrived undamaged and perfect. It was 2 years ago.

Any pics of this chalice you are shipping out???

dougers31 · Feb 16, 2011

I had an 8in acan shipped to me with no issues. They just used a larger bag(triple bagged of course). I would say the one issue you might have is finding a way to keep the coral submerged at all times which might be hard to do if the package is placed on its side....S'pose you could have a minimal amount of air in the bag which might help.

akabryanhall · Feb 16, 2011

AquaWorldPSC said:
An acropora colony about 12" the size of a basketball after all the branches. I shipped it in a standard size shipment box 20x20x16 ish with is floating upside down on a piece of styro. Needles to say it arrived undamaged and perfect. It was 2 years ago.

Any pics of this chalice you are shipping out???

Wow that is a pretty friggin large acro!! Unfortunately no pics, its in a friends tank I'm helping break down. It's a tyree desert plate chalice with about 40 eyes on it.

akabryanhall · Feb 16, 2011

dougers31 said:
I had an 8in acan shipped to me with no issues. They just used a larger bag(triple bagged of course). I would say the one issue you might have is finding a way to keep the coral submerged at all times which might be hard to do if the package is placed on its side....S'pose you could have a minimal amount of air in the bag which might help.

That is something to consider, keeping it submerged. It may be easier that this a pretty flat piece.

AquaWorldPSC · Feb 16, 2011

akabryanhall said:
Wow that is a pretty friggin large acro!! Unfortunately no pics, its in a friends tank I'm helping break down. It's a tyree desert plate chalice with about 40 eyes on it.

Very nice!