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Frags from Frag Factory. Pictures were taken maybe 45 minutes after being put in the tank. The purple SPS was named as millepora, but it doesn't have the look to it. Can anyone take a swing at it?

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Great frags, I will be ordering again very soon.

Sweet! Congrats! Count me in on the next group order! You won't have trouble meeting a price point! lol :)

Very nice looking Zoo's!

Sweet zoos. When you're looking to offload some extras of those once they've all grown, remember me buddy old pal. :p ;)

Hard to say on the acro ID. It might well be a milli that's just sulking after the shipping; we'll know better when it starts extending its polyps out a bit more.

Beautiful scores Scott! Hope they do well for you!

Chris

Thanks all. A good fragging will be in order for everyone in time.. I won't forget :wink:

On a sad note, I lost both SPS frags. They both RTN'd overnight. I don't get it... I floated them, did everything correctly... and then bam, they're bone white. Oh well I guess, a lesson learned: Don't order SPS online? The zoos are doing great however.

Great looking zoos.

How long did you drip acclimate the SPS for? What total water volume did you add? (equal to the bag water, double, triple?)

I admit I didn't drip very long. But the bags the SPS were in were the very small , tiny bags meant to hold one frag in. So it only took about 15 minutes to get the same amount of water in the bag from the tank. I only dripped for about 25mins (i know, tsk tsk...) I am sure a lot of it was my fault.. but I had floated them for a while, then dripped.

Anyhow, I am very happy with the zoos and I think I am going to order more very soon.

How was the temp in the bags when you received them? IMO, getting the temp up slowly is more important than matching the salinity...at least in my experience.
Sorry to hear about the RTN, thats the worst, especially for exciting new stuff :neutral:

Next time I would drip twice as long.

I don't bother floating the bags.

I also increase the drip rate as I go along, and for the last while I have a small stream of water, and this helps bring the temp up slowly to match my tank.

The temps of the bags were good when I initially got them. Someone was floating them for me already.

Anywhoo, a lesson learned.... acclimate longer and adjust temps better and hopefully that will help.

*OUCH!* >_< That's my greatest fear for ordering live goods online. Especially $P$ corals.

Yup. It was my first time ordering SPS online too, unfortunately. But hey, it was a lesson learned, and now I know that it's a better idea to stay away from the sps. I think it's fairly common as well. Like I said though, the vendor I dealt with was great and the other frags look amazing.. so definitely no complaints at all. I'll be ordering more zoos soon, they look fantastic.

Haha, $p$ . :lol:

I have had no problems shipping SPS before, I have done it many times. You can see my last shipment from last week, I did not float the bags due to the number of them, I did however check temperature and salinity. I added small amounts of water over a period of an hour just to be careful, but the temperature between the bags and my tank was only 4°, and the salinity was pretty well the same. Sorry to hear about your loss. No matter what the reason, it still is depressing when you loose a new aquisition.

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