Hand-Picking Corals in Indonesia

PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 18, 2017

Travis Stewart said:
Great info. I’m a diver and want to go to Raja Ampat before I die.

Excellent, I'm sure it would be a memorable trip for you! Just be careful about what you eat and drink and have discussions with your doctor about maybe bringing along some antibiotics. While I'm most certainly not giving medical advice, but for me Cipro and Metronidazole are needed. But being a diver I'm sure you are aware of the medical precautions associated with diving and travel. Having traveled all over the world in different careers during my life including the remotest areas of Brazil, I've never had any issues except in Indonesia!

Travis Stewart · Nov 18, 2017

PacificEastAquaculture said:
Excellent, I'm sure it would be a memorable trip for you! Just be careful about what you eat and drink and have discussions with your doctor about maybe bringing along some antibiotics. While I'm most certainly not giving medical advice, but for me Cipro and Metronidazole are needed. But being a diver I'm sure you are aware of the medical precautions associated with diving and travel. Having traveled all over the world in different careers during my life including the remotest areas of Brazil, I've never had any issues except in Indonesia!

Thanks for all the info. Maybe one day.you are a lucky guy. Enjoy all of that for the rest of us!

PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 18, 2017

Here's an overview video. Lots of folks sent me PMs and I'll get back to you in the next few days as everything settles in and I start to get some pics. Watch here on R2R for our sale thread, will be posting a few pieces daily here exclusively.

TWT5011 · Nov 18, 2017

Love these posts. Thanks Dr. Mac.

I'm curious if you have many DOAs in your shipments? or maybe none? Do you prepare for a certain percentage of DOAs?

MacKrell · Nov 18, 2017

Following

PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 18, 2017

TWT5011 said:
Love these posts. Thanks Dr. Mac.

I'm curious if you have many DOAs in your shipments? or maybe none? Do you prepare for a certain percentage of DOAs?

DOAs are extremely low on corals, just a few out of many hundreds this time. We did have some losses with anemones this time, the last shipment we didn't lose any, so it does vary. We calculate the losses into our costs and spread that out over the entire shipment. After a few days you do tend to lose a few corals that initially looked good--it's difficult to judge some when they first arrive and haven't opened fully, but overall we tend to have maybe 3% losses.

PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 20, 2017

THE PARTY BEGINS!

The first of hundreds of corals hand-picked by Dr. Mac are being posted today. Find them here: https://www.pacificeastaquaculture.com/prodList.asp?idcategory=83&pMaxItemsPerPage=1000

Keep an eye on our site, more posting today and throughout this week!

PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 24, 2017

Black Friday Week Extravaganza

Wednesday: 40% off Premium Frags
Thursday: Cultured Maxima Clam $19
Friday: Rainbow Trachy Special $60, reg. $180

Details here:
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PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 25, 2017

The SaLe ExTrAvAgAnZa continues

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Thursday: Cultured Maxima Clam $19, reg. $79
Friday: Rainbow Trachy Special $60, reg. $180
Saturday: Radioactive Radical Zoanthid Frag $90, reg. $190

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Travis Stewart · Nov 25, 2017

PacificEastAquaculture said:
The SaLe ExTrAvAgAnZa continues

Wednesday: 40% off Premium Frags
Thursday: Cultured Maxima Clam $19, reg. $79
Friday: Rainbow Trachy Special $60, reg. $180
Saturday: Radioactive Radical Zoanthid Frag $90, reg. $190

Details here:
https://www.pacificeastaquaculture.com/prodList.asp?idcategory=76&pMaxItemsPerPage=1000

Trying to find this supernugget

PacificEastAquaculture · Nov 25, 2017

It's here on the Weekly Specials page

https://www.pacificeastaquaculture.com/prodList.asp?idcategory=76&pMaxItemsPerPage=1000

PacificEastAquaculture · Dec 10, 2017

Just back from the latest hand-picking trip. Lots of cool corals this time.

ATTN VENDORS: contact me if you want in on this shipment, hoping to bring these in before Christmas.

First time seeing these, mini blue carpets

Bacon505 · Dec 10, 2017

You guys used to have really nice collections and deal on your bargain frags for sps and acro. What happen? I love getting acro from you guys because of the wide selection, now all you have are lps and solfty.

PacificEastAquaculture · Dec 10, 2017

Bacon505 said:
You guys used to have really nice collections and deal on your bargain frags for sps and acro. What happen? I love getting acro from you guys because of the wide selection, now all you have are lps and solfty.

Your right, i've neglected posted lots of SPS on the Bargain Frags page lately, they sell quickly and I haven't been able to keep up. I'll get some more posted this week! We do have lots of nice Acro colonies right now if you'd like some bigger pieces.

PacificEastAquaculture · Dec 16, 2017

A few more of the goodies coming in on the next hand-picked shipment.

Jimmyjimster · Jan 28, 2018

When you say hand picked do you mean you are picking from the distributor or are you actually diving to pick the corals?

PacificEastAquaculture · Jan 28, 2018

Jimmyjimster said:
When you say hand picked do you mean you are picking from the distributor or are you actually diving to pick the corals?

If you check my second post in this thread you'll find your answer. It would be illegal for a non citizen of the country to collect corals. Diving and looking is OK, collecting no, except for local divers with permits.