Suncorals direct?

duberii · Jul 3, 2020

Not sure if I'm allowed to make a post about a non-sponsor, but has anybody heard anything good or bad about suncoralsdirect? They sell a variety of sun coral sizes, along with some other NPS, but their shipping option is 1-2 days, which can't be good for any coral. All the reviews seem to be positive, but a lot of places artificially inflate their reviews so people are more inclined to buy. Let me know what you guys think.

RichtheReefer21 · Jul 3, 2020

No experience with them but i have fat head dendrophyllia in Springfield, mass for sale. Skip the shipping all together.

Pm me if interested.

RichtheReefer21 · Jul 3, 2020

duberii · Jul 3, 2020

RichtheReefer21 said:

I have a dendro- I'm looking for a tubastrea. Thanks for the offer though!

RichtheReefer21 · Jul 3, 2020

No problem! Good luck!

JAMSOURY · Jul 11, 2020

duberii said:
Not sure if I'm allowed to make a post about a non-sponsor, but has anybody heard anything good or bad about suncoralsdirect? They sell a variety of sun coral sizes, along with some other NPS, but their shipping option is 1-2 days, which can't be good for any coral. All the reviews seem to be positive, but a lot of places artificially inflate their reviews so people are more inclined to buy. Let me know what you guys think.

DONT ORDER FROM THEM.
I ordered from them last week. It looks like they do not do overnight delivery, which it MIGHT be ok for some corals (Not recommended) but here is the problem. They shipped the sun coral in a regular box, no insolation and no cooling. The weather here in Las Vegas is 110. My Usps carrier delivers mail around 2-4pm regularly. I work for Usps and the delivery vehicles have no AC. So the package pretty much sits on a truck all day at extremely high temps. I received my package and the temperature was at around 90 degrees or so. The sun corals completely deteriorated within 12 hours.

duberii · Jul 11, 2020

JAMSOURY said:
DONT ORDER FROM THEM.
I ordered from them last week. It looks like they do not do overnight delivery, which it MIGHT be ok for some corals (Not recommended) but here is the problem. They shipped the sun coral in a regular box, no insolation and no cooling. The weather here in Las Vegas is 110. My Usps carrier delivers mail around 2-4pm regularly. I work for Usps and the delivery vehicles have no AC. So the package pretty much sits on a truck all day at extremely high temps. I received my package and the temperature was at around 90 degrees or so. The sun corals completely deteriorated within 12 hours.

Exactly what I expected when I saw 2 day shipping. Do they at least have a DOA deal where you got your money back?

JAMSOURY · Jul 11, 2020

duberii said:
Exactly what I expected when I saw 2 day shipping. Do they at least have a DOA deal where you got your money back?

They have a doa policy to replace the dead coral or you can receive store credit. I tried to get a refund as I do not want to support a company that ships corals so carelessly. I’ll be opening a dispute with my credit card company to see what they can do.

I also received a snail from them. I think he survived but poor guy could have easily been escargot!

Kalibur2 · Jul 11, 2020

I ordered a sun coral from them but I order it 2 months ago was a little cooler out. A lot of heads for what i paid for. Only issue I had was it came full of hair algae with I had to clean and frag some pieces off of it. It is doing great though. Packaging not the best

andrewey · Jul 11, 2020

duberii said:
Not sure if I'm allowed to make a post about a non-sponsor, but has anybody heard anything good or bad about suncoralsdirect? They sell a variety of sun coral sizes, along with some other NPS, but their shipping option is 1-2 days, which can't be good for any coral. All the reviews seem to be positive, but a lot of places artificially inflate their reviews so people are more inclined to buy. Let me know what you guys think.

I know this is besides your larger point about suncorals, but to answer your first question, the mods at R2R aren't like that other forum

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I can't speak for them, but I'd guess that they appreciate when reefers support companies that support this platform, but I've yet to see them discriminate or censor a discussion over a company or product just because it wasn't a sponsor. The only thing they will do is when a company is a sponsor and someone has a negative experience with that company, they will often move that discussion to the companie's specific page so the two parties can try and work things out.

Kalibur2 · Jul 12, 2020

This is from from them. Bad cell phone pic. But you can see

duberii · Jul 12, 2020

Kalibur2 said:
This is from from them. Bad cell phone pic. But you can see

I'm glad yours came alive. For me, two-day shipping seems cruel to any coral, regardless of how well they fare after. It's a beautiful piece, but I definitely can't stand by their practices.

MCatano · Jul 12, 2020

duberii said:
Not sure if I'm allowed to make a post about a non-sponsor, but has anybody heard anything good or bad about suncoralsdirect? They sell a variety of sun coral sizes, along with some other NPS, but their shipping option is 1-2 days, which can't be good for any coral. All the reviews seem to be positive, but a lot of places artificially inflate their reviews so people are more inclined to buy. Let me know what you guys think.

Way over priced!

MCatano · Jul 12, 2020

Paid $100 for this at my LFS

duberii · Jul 12, 2020

MCatano said:
Way over priced!

Seemed like an amazing price to me- with their COVID sale, I could get it shipped to me for ~$60 for 5+ heads. Even at my local reefing events, I can expect to pay $40-60 for a single head.