Well, while its true you can not select the exact species you can only select the general type I did request 2 of each type. Since their where 6 categories that gave me the 12 frags. I figured this way I would get a good sample to review from. In one of the many e-mails seacrop told me they where running low on the
sps nano frags and wanted to know if I would prefer to delay the shipment until they had a better supply of
sps or if I just wanted to keep the delivery date. I am sure I could have changed my selection after I was informed of this but I did not so the way I see it I left it up to Mary to select the 12the frag rather than specifying that the third one be one of the other main classes.
I also would prefer to be able to pick the exact 12 frags down to the individual species but I can understand why Seacrop does not offer this. Remember these frags are frags of corals that for one reason or another are not one that the parent company MSI is able to ship to their
LFS customers. So instead of just tossing them aside Seacrop is offering these coals a second chance by selling them as CPR frags. So at any given moment the inventory of CPR frags will be changing. Aside from constantly updating a webpage showing all the species and genus that is available for CPR frag packs they just have you pick from the major coral classification groups.
Both vendors where good to deal with.
I would say both are deals. If I am forced to compare the two Seacrop gives you more corals for less $. Sure they are overall smaller in size but you also are able to get corals that are not offered as part of the 9 for 99 special. Most of the 9 for 99 are softies or mushrooms. Its possible with the seacrop nanopack to select none of a particular type and more or most of another type. To review real quick the following are the 6 main types of frags they offer " Mushrooms, Polyps, Hard Corals,
SPS Corals, Soft Corals". So if you wanted to not have any
shrooms or soft corals you could just leave them off your list.
As you had made a comment about the 9 for 99 before about how you where not going to get any 'display case' items and most are more of a drab color the seacrop frags (from only 1 day of observation) appear to be full of color.
I had not noticed the leather with the hair algae on it when I was unpacking them. In fact I did nto even notice those strands of something until it was in the tank under the lights. Im not quite sure what they are and im not quite sure where they came from but I would not be surprised if they did not get picked up some how during the attachment process or the acclimation process when the superglue was still rather soft.
For someone with a larger tank I would say you would have more to look at with the 9 for 99 simply cause the size on average is larger per frag. Of course if you live in an area with a good selection of
LFS's im sure the 9 for 99 corals are much smaller in size than what one would get locally. For those with a larger tank and your looking for some color to fill some holes or your willing to invest in a smaller size coral and watch it grow the seacrop pack is just the thing.
I am happy with the 'VALUE' of the seacrop nano pack priced between $6.25-$6.66 per frag before shipping they are a good value for the size in my book. Of course the 9 for 99 would be a better value at $11 per coral before shipping if one was lucky enough to visit the store and hand select the corals and not have to pay shipping. Once you factor in shipping costs for me the seacrop cost per frag was almost 1/2 of the 9 for 99 cost per coral.
There is something to be said for what Mary and Seacrop is doing in saving small or slightly lower quality specimens from the trashbin and offering them to hobbiest. Sure its not going to save the coral reefs but it does give an animal a fighting chance at survival.
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