Yeah, I think shipping is my only option... guess I wait until spring, shipping in the winter is probably waaaay too risky. In the meantime, I'll have to search for a source of liverock that might have some extra critters on it. My parents brought me back some dead coral from their trip to Jamaica years ago, and I put the chunks of rock into some salt water (I was young, it seemed like the thing to do
and sooner than later there were a bunch of little creatures swimming around in the glass. I hope to have a similar (if less awed, I'm all growed up now) experience with reefkeeping.