It might be time to let go of the idea. As far as corals go I don't think he has anything that we can't get locally via trades or our LFS's or from places like J&L.
This is what he told he me he has available:
- green BTA
green mushrooms
elegance
candy cane
torch
fox
branching hammer
goniopora
red Florida ricordea
green star polyps
green plates
doughnuts
spaghetti leather
yellow leather
green montipora capricornis - prop, about 3.5"x2.5"
green bubble coral
stylopora
purple acro
green acro
red acro millepora
The "blue" carpet that he said he'd hold for me, is suddenly not opening up. They originally had 4 of them, now there's only 2 (one green and one blue). Frankly I'm getting a bad feeling about it and am strongly considering backing out. My instincts are telling me it's a potential mistake at this point to follow through, and I really don't see anything in the above list that knocks my socks off. We're better off buying Walt Smith pieces from places that actually
care about our business like
Ocean Aquatics and J&L (I'm defining "care" as "they don't punish you for trying to buy from them.")