Biff's 90 Gallon Downgrade

[PRC]

Glad everything worked out. Nice work Rwynn..gotta love gotomypc

 

[Bifferwine]

I had to move a bunch of corals around. The hammer was kind of getting hammered by my powerheads! And I wanted to be able to see the blastos on the backside of their rock... So things are jumbled right now :(

Here are the two things I picked up at my LFS last night. Neither of them appear to have opened up all the way yet.

A purple long-tentacled plate coral.

And a small sun coral fraglette.

Alas, my pink lobo from Knucklehead did not make it :( Perhaps the Fedex Fiasco of February 2010 was too much for it to handle.

 

[Smitty]

Awwwww, I'm so sorry to hear about the lobo brain. Truly sad news.

 

[Bifferwine]

I know. I was holding out hope that it'd make it. But then I turned the lights on this morning and all my fish were eating what was left of it! The good news is that everything else he sent me is looking fantastic.

 

[reeffreak]

Poor thing,all that is left is some pink goo or something.With your crazy schedule,now you have to feed a coral regularly.

Congrats,me thinks.

 

[Bifferwine]

With your crazy schedule,now you have to feed a coral regularly.

Congrats,me thinks.

Hmmmm yes. I already feed my other corals regularly. The longest I'm out of town for work is usually ~3 days or so. So it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe NDB will have to learn how to work a turkey baster. That sounds dirty.

 

[mng777777]

Yep I'll take pictures of my new additions right now!

Well done worthy adversary... Disaster averted.

 

[Bifferwine]

I didn't want you to have to bring the hammer down on me or anything.

 

[dcantucson]

That's a beautiful snow white coral you got there Biff. You could name it snowflake. :mrgreen:

 

[Bifferwine]

That's a beautiful snow white coral you got there Biff. You could name it snowflake. :mrgreen:

:cry:

 

[bjohanson1234]

I believe that Fed Ex's negligence cause the death of this coral.

 

[Bifferwine]

I concur.

 

[dcantucson]

I think Knucklehead should file a claim for the entire shipment and send you a few more corals to make up for your losses and troubles. JMO

 

[daugherty]

i would file a claim for the whole shipment

 

[andysgirl8800]

Sorry about your coral loss Biff....on the other hand, that purple plate coral looks awesome!!

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Sorry about the lobo Sarah. Hopefully FedEx will pony up the $

 

[Rcpilot]

Is there any tissue left on the lobo? I've seen LPS come back from what looked like 95% decimation. They can recover if ANY of it is left alive.

I don't think it's Knuck's fault. He can't control what the shipping company did. Kind of a risk we take when we ship corals IMO. :twocents:

 

[Bifferwine]

I left it in the tank for another day after I took the pic. There was nothing left.

I don't think it's his fault at all -- I never blamed him. I saw the picture of what it looked like prior to shipping. And when it arrived, the bag of water it was in was completely cloudy.

 

[Rcpilot]

I know you weren't blaming Knucklehead.

That just sucks b@lls. Big orange box with plain English on the side - ends up in timbucktwo for no good reason. :grumble:

 

[Bifferwine]

I went and "helped" a fellow local reefer take down his tank tonight. I came home with 20+ new corals!! They are getting used to their new home right now. Pics to come! Oh, and he has more for me to pick up tomorrow too ;)