Mr. Coral feedback

[FarmerTy]

I'm not usually on Reef2Reef but wanted to throw my feedback on here. Bought a nice SPS frag pack, all the pieces looked primo and I couldn't be happier with my order. The polyps were out within 20 mins in the tank.

Here's the package opened:

How they came packed:

After I separated each frag bag:

In my Noodles & Company "to go" container acclimation and dipping chamber:

And free at last in my tank:

Great stuff Mr. Coral and a steal of a price!

-Ty

 

[NanaReefer]

Keep us posted!!!

 

[FarmerTy]

Will do! They don't look stressed at all from the journey and look great. I'll update down the line once they start coloring back up and encrusting.

 

[npaul65]

Very much satisfied with the pack. Definitely order in future

 

[TinpanVA]

That's pretty cool, he's been telling me for months he's out of Milli's.

 

[Aqua fire/medic]

Update on frags?

 

[FarmerTy]

I have only 2 left. I have over 65 sps frags from various local hobbiest, online stores, and local fish stores. Sadly, 6 out of the original 8 I received from Mr. Coral RTN'ed at various times in the last month and a half. Suprisingly, only one other frag out of my entire collection besides these RTN'ed on me.

I think a recovery period prior to shipping would have helped the frags survival chances. The stock seemed to be of great quality and the frags looked healthy when they arrived but possibly 2 weeks of heal time before shipping would have increased their long-term chances of survival 10-fold and possibly slightly larger frags then the size received.

Again, it works in the short-term but i think long-term, they would have survived better. 6 out of 8 of this frag pack RTN'ED and the rest of my 65+ frags survived and encrusted with only 1 other frag dying are pretty skewed numbers.

 

[jservedio]

Heh I was going to say from that first picture before you even posted this today "wow, those are some FRESH cut frags" and I would have been super disappointed with that. It doesn't even look like they had more than 24 hours between cutting and shipping. Sorry to hear about you losing 6 of them - especially considering millies are usually pretty tough. Definitely a testament to the value of healing frags for a week or two - 80% mortality vs 1.75% mortality... It's like comparing ebola to the flu!

 

[Aqua fire/medic]

Sadly I'm not surprised. Sorry for the loss

 

[FarmerTy]

I wanted to be objective with it. The quality was nice and they looked healthy when they arrive but probably 2 weeks of recovery and maybe larger frag sizes would have helped them make the transition better. If it was my tank conditions, then I would assume the 65 other frags would have seen some loss as well. I hope he takes this as some good feedback to perhaps change some procedural steps with sending out frags as I thought the quality and price were great.

 

[rock_lobster]

frag size doesnt matter nearly as much as the fact that those were cut and shipped in the same day.

 

[FarmerTy]

Agreed! Though it would have been nice to have a larger frag to see the stn/rtn coming and possibly try to cut in time to save it. Lesson learned I guess.

 

[jaybk5211]

I lost 10 out of 12 the same way last month.