New order from queen city corals

PghReef · Feb 12, 2022

Have never used this vendor before, not a ton of information out there but the few reviews I can find seem to be very positive. Decided to give them a try on a Medium-sized order, prices seem good and the pictures look healthy. Ordered a frammer, Hammer, goni, and some sps frags. Cant wait to see what comes in and hopefully the quality matches up to other vendors I've used.

Anyone else here order from these guys before? What do you think?

Pictures from the cite below, I'll post pictures of the corals received once they're in and acclimated next week. Really excited for the Blue goni hope it is as nice as it looks and it adapts well to my reef.

mattdg · Feb 15, 2022

Very nice. I've also heard good things about Queen City. Thinking about ordering some coral from them, at some point. Thanks for the pics.

PghReef · Feb 17, 2022

Order arrived today. I messaged the owner, Kevin, prior to arrival to ask about their dipping and qt practices. Im very particular about what I add to my reef and do not want any pesky hitchhikers or fish diseases. With how my tank is set up catching the fish would be literally impossible without destroying everything. Also having one of the last potters angels sold before the ban makes me take extra precautions to not introduce velvet or ich.

Was very pleased with Kevin's response, I'll just paste word for word. "We have a separate coral QT that new arrivals go to for a minimum of three weeks and all of our fish have been medicated and treated before going in our reef tanks. We dip all of our corals in a three dip process, Coral RX Pro>Seachem Reef Dip and then Coral revive"

As for the corals everything arrived healthy. I even had a last minute errand to run and of course the UPS came 5 minutes after I left. Corals sat on a covered porch in rainy 50 F weather. I opened and temp acclimated by floating in my sump for an hour while I took care of other things in the tank. Packing was superb, all fleshy lps like euphyllia were rubber banded with the frag plug into Styrofoam so they would float upside down preventing damage to skeleton from the coral tossing around in shipment. All frag plugs were in little plastic cups similar to how battlecorals packs his sps. An extra rubber band was placed on the bottom of every plug to ensure it wouldn't slip out of the cup.

Most corals were opened in the box. The zoas were closed as expected,never seen them ship and remain open, but starting to open within an hour of being placed. The goniopora colony was also fully retacted but it's polyps are slowly peaking out, I have also never seen a goni ship or move and remain open. If anything gonis seem to be the most temperamental and take the longest to come back out IME. Everything else was opened and extended. Including a reward frag which was a red Monti Cap, actually had it in my cart and removed for other corals earlier. Also threw on a freebie frag, GSP.

I'll post some pics when I get a chance. Hope this review helps others who may be on the fence about trying a new vendor. I'd definitely recommend and will do business with again. Couldn't be happier with their qt process, selection and prices, and quality.