born2chill
Aquarium Advice Activist
Just got my first online coral order and I am a bit underwhelmed. I performed a 2 hour drip acclimation on the corals and just placed them in a few minutes ago. I realize that the corals should look better as they acclimate, but I'm not liking what I see so far. The corals seemed to be packed nicely, but I guess some mishaps happened along the way.
First of all my supercolored zoos were supposed to come attached to a rock, but somehow they weren't and the customer service rep at liveaquaria has no idea how they were shipped without an attached rock. That's not the worst part of it, the coral was broken into 2 pieces. The cust. rep said to have the coral acclimate and if I have any problems they would ship another one out.
My supposed candycane coral looks nothing like any candycane I've ever seen, but I'll let the pictures do the talking for me. Oh and a little pice of the tip of a branch was broken off as well.
Toadstool looks ok to me, but who knows with my luck. My peps went on the toadstool as soon as I put it in the tank.
Here is a shot of the corals in my tank. They clouded up the water a bit when I [put them in since the water they were shipped in was filthy. I guess at this point I'll just hope for the best. Any advice/comments on my new corals would be greatly appreciated.
More pictures to come tomorrow as I turn my lights on and see if they show more life.
First of all my supercolored zoos were supposed to come attached to a rock, but somehow they weren't and the customer service rep at liveaquaria has no idea how they were shipped without an attached rock. That's not the worst part of it, the coral was broken into 2 pieces. The cust. rep said to have the coral acclimate and if I have any problems they would ship another one out.
My supposed candycane coral looks nothing like any candycane I've ever seen, but I'll let the pictures do the talking for me. Oh and a little pice of the tip of a branch was broken off as well.
Toadstool looks ok to me, but who knows with my luck. My peps went on the toadstool as soon as I put it in the tank.
Here is a shot of the corals in my tank. They clouded up the water a bit when I [put them in since the water they were shipped in was filthy. I guess at this point I'll just hope for the best. Any advice/comments on my new corals would be greatly appreciated.
More pictures to come tomorrow as I turn my lights on and see if they show more life.
