Coral loss after swap.

[Pinkheine]

Wow. Sorry for your losses guys. We arrived at 10am, made our purchases at 10:05 and left the swap at the end of the day(6pm). It was our first swap, we ended up picking up the lil' man from the sitter and then got home finally around 7:45pm. So the corals sat in the car in a plastic bag for almost two hours with nothing keeping them warm. Items made it into the tank by 10pm.

We used no heaters or anything and thankfully everything is happy and doing well. Rics, Zoas, Clam and Polys are all fine. Beginners luck maybe who knows, or maybe all my thanks should go to the wonderful vendor who held onto my items until the end of the swap. :hug:

 

[boozeman]

a small portable cooler is a good investment to keep your frags safe

 

[EmilyT]

it's not completely dead yet... lol i'll let you guys know in a while..
(dont worry im getting help)
im too lazy i posted it before and i dont feel like typing it all over again...:lol:

 

[ReefnQueens]

i bought 7 frags and 2 clams and all is well sorry to hear about the terrible news =(

 

[SWA]

the LPS tend to shred bags. The black plastic liners some vendors use work great. I tend to save them. DFS puts like 10 of them in layers when they pack. I save the outside dry layers
I actually ran out of bags Thanks Dr. Mac!
I lost 4-6 rics, not bad considering all the jostling etc.
Sorry for everyones losses
I do recommend hand warmers and a cooler...

B

 

[ZANYMASTER]

No losses here,used the MR frag bag from the last swap.

 

[Davidl919]

50% of my purchases gone...I brought about 14 Frags. I was there at 9am and got home about 7ish (Everything I got from ming is good.). I was afraid of buying the heater packs because I didn't know about how much heat would be produced by the packs.

 

[SI REEF]

The frags I bought are doing very well. I used the heat packs at the door. I did just have a huge loss of a miami huricane that was shipped doa today $350 frag. When I ship hammer lps I rubber band a piece of styrofoam to the frag and let it float.

 

[REEF MANIA]

I also lost a clam. I'm just glad that everthing else I bought is doing great. Sorry for your loss guys.

 

[marki24]

I got around 10 frags and all is good. But i did loose the raffle aution if that makes anyone feel better :smash:

 

[adamrose]

i got a colony of tubs blue, that never opened.

strange because i got another few polyps that did!

 

[ming]

I lost only 1 acro, but I lost it because I dipped it when I saw a bug on it before I put it in the tank. It RTN'ed afterwards...

 

[nanoreefer22]

i got a colony of tubs blue, that never opened.

strange because i got another few polyps that did!

Turkey baste the crap out of the ones that aren't opening. I find that when crap accumulates btwn the polyps, although you might not see it, it bothers the polyps and they dont open. GIve it a shot.

 

[ellebelle]

I have been to four swaps and this is the first time I lost a single frag. So I feel pretty fortuntate.

 

[tosiek]

wow this thread got big quick.

It wasn't made to try to weed out bad people or make people feel bad for losing things or anything negative. Just wanted a quick help on things to avoid, like not getting foot warmers and not using coolers. Playing football with frag bags, or using bubble gum to tape a leaking bag ect.... Silly stuff to try to avoid. I seen people walk out with shopping bags of frags =0)

 

[tunicata]

Lol, I too eventually ended up putting quite a few frags in that green shopping bag. I had a cooler and had expected to pick up a styro packing box while at the swap but to no avail.
Luckily, I was only walking 5-8mins to the friends house.

But so far all my corals are awesoome. Some how all the water even leaked out of 2 of Sanjay's buckets because they some how overturned in hte cooler!

And I'm so proud of my blue tort from lazi, it's still blue!!! And all my other corals are still sexy.

 

[cb747]

I lost one squammie clam. Everything else is doing great

 

[Catdiggy]

dead frag from raffle...

had cooler with heat pac...raffle item still didnt make it...
all purchased items doing fine who donated green acan?

 

[onegreenray]

lost both the clams, and the tort from the raffle. other wise both duncans from the raffle and the one i bought are doing awesome.

look forward to the next swap. this was my first one.

 

[NYreefNoob]

lost nothing still to this day, wonder how mny people aclimated stuff or had tank's that could support the stuff they bought