Victoria Blue World Aquarium WYSIWYG review

[jorjef]

Received my corals today and I thought I would post a few pics and info for others. I'll try to keep it short.

The box arrived in great shape and was impressed with the fact that it was a new unused box and well suited for its job. The styrofoam inner box was 1.5" thick which is double the thickness of any other suppliers I have used in the past. The corals were bagged, not once, not twice but FOUR items each. one might have been five.

Now some of the fun facts..There was water in the styro box but not really sure where it come from, the bags still had lots of water left in them. The loose water soaked the heat packs and seemed to kill any heat they had as they were cold, not cool to the touch when I opened the box. The corals looked okay but the bags were cold, cold, cold. I threw a thermometer in one bag and the temp was 54-56 degrees.. Due to the fact I knew it was going to be cold I checked to see if they wanted to delay shipment but they reassured me that the coral cost plus shipping would be refunded if DOA so I said go ahead. The one Lobo was looking a bit odd and after a closer look something was lodged in one of its mouths. I got a set of tweezers and eased out a peice of........carbon lol, never seen that before. It was minus 23 degrees when I picked up the package at Fedex this morning and it would have been nice to see how things would have differed if the heat packs weren't doused. Both corals were good sized Lobo brains and after about ten hours in my tank are looking in good shape.

In conclusion I would say a positive experience and will be buying again, just on a warmer day.


The box they arrived in...






Box opened






Checking temp







Carbon pellet in mouth







Offending pellet...