Saltwater & Reef

fishfreek · 05-06-2003, 12:18 PM

I just placed an order at jeffs exotic for their 9 for 99 coral special. Here is the list of what I ordered.

Green Brain
Red Shooms
Green Stripe Shrooms
Watermellon Shroms - was gonna get a bubble but they was out
Green button polyps
green star polyps
Sinularia leather
Porites xmas tree
sarcophyton leather

Everything is scheduled for shippment today and delivery by 10:30AM tommorow.

Ill report back tommorow with photos and a inital review of the size vs price.

Total cost was $174 after the $10 box charge and shipping. That still comes to under $20 per coral and around here thats cheap.

alrmc4 · 05-06-2003, 12:34 PM

thanks for the info

can't wait to see if you find this a good overall experience.

Hara · 05-06-2003, 05:26 PM

I will keep my fingers crossed for you. When I ordered from them last fall, everything died, even the corals, most were misidentified as well. I hope you fare much better.

loganj · 05-06-2003, 05:48 PM

Although I don't know what kind of frags they have, GARF has a 2 for 1 deal going now on softies and SPS. Might be something to look into... Hope the corals arrive in good shape and you are happy with them...will be waiting on pics.
Logan J

05-07-2003, 01:28 PM

Hey, can you photograph the box when it get's there, as well as the packing job?

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 01:39 PM

Yep. Dont worry. When I do posts like this I document everything. U should see what I did for ffexpress order I got last fall.

PS. I really miss ffexpress. Its like a huge hole in my heart exists since they had been swallowed up by the retail machine.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 04:46 PM

Here are some pics of the packaging and acclomation.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 04:49 PM

Here are two of the corals out of the bags and sitting on the bottom of a bucket. the bucket i used was an Instant Ocean 200 gal salt mix bucket.

The first photo is the Porites xmas tree coral and the second photo is the sarcophyton leather.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 05:11 PM

Here are the three mushroom types. They are all rather small and right now I cant really tell from the photos what is what. I think the one on the tonga branch is the red shroom. But the other two I cant remember from the shape of the rock.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 05:14 PM

We have the green open brain, the green button polyps and the green star polyps.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 05:15 PM

And the final coral in the 9 for 99 that I ordered was the Sinularia leather photoed below.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 05:17 PM

After they have acclomated via the drip method and have been placed in the tank (with the lights off). I can sit back and wait for them to all slowly start to open up more.

Tommorow Ill post another report of how things look 1 day post delivery.

reefrunner69 · 05-07-2003, 06:03 PM

So, initially are you pleased?

The sarcophyton is actually a lobophytum, IMO, and those are definitely star polyps.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 06:24 PM

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So, initially are you pleased?

Yes, I wish the mushrooms would have been a little bit larger. Most are the size of a man's pinky thumbnail. But at the same time they are small from shipping so we will see over the next few days how they open up.

michealprater · 05-07-2003, 06:54 PM

The suspence is killing me, I want to see them in your tank. :P

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 07:43 PM

Well they are in the tank now. Lights are off for now. I probably will turn them on just a short period before they would normally turn off.

One thing I did notice. I have what appear to be three crabs/shrimp (not sure as i only saw the front two claws and eyes) in the portes xmas tree rock. They appear to be living in the hard coral skeliton. From initall sightings I dont think they are mantis as one claw is bigger than the other. The right claw. They appear to be a green striped kind of color.

Any idea what hitchiked in on this? No I cant get pic right now. Maybe when lights come back on.

fishfreek · 05-07-2003, 08:11 PM

More info on the hitchiker. The claw is white with stripes running the lengh of it. The body from what I can see appears a darker yellowish green color.

michealprater · 05-07-2003, 08:21 PM

Porites coral has a crab that lives symbioticly with it. They look similar to a mantis, but they are not. They will poke their head out of the hole and when you look at it , they will shoot back in. They are harmless and I dont think they even leave the coral. I have personally seen that crab on a porites at the LFS and I said, hey, you got a mantis. They straightened me out though. I watched the crab, he was quite entertaining.