After 1 week in the tank, all test levels remained at or near 0.0, so I contacted Richard via e-mail on Friday night and told him I was ready for package #2 - he responded Friday night (even though it was well after business hours), and he had package #2 on the plane on Saturday morning!!!
The Southwest flight arrived on time at 1:30PM and at 3:00PM I called the cargo desk and the package had just arrived in the warehouse, so off to the airport..... had the 2 boxes loaded in my car by 3:45 and back at my house by 4:30PM. I had my grandson with me and he couldn't wait to open the boxes.
We opened up the critter box first, and I was completelyflabbergasted!!! In addition to all the promised critters (snails, hermit crabs, sea cucumber, star fish, etc) Richard included all sorts of extras - 5 different types of sponges, several gorgorians (including a beautiful purple fan!), 2 anemones, and several other critters!!!!
The second box contained the decorator rock, and it too was amazing! There were some beautiful pieces included, and all were very much alive - several with corals attached, and one piece with algae of some type and a sponge attached! Just beautiful!
My grandson and I inspected all the rock looking for any gorilla crabs, etc but we didn't find any, so we had all the rock in the tank and aquascaped by 5:30 PM or so. We took our time getting the critters acclimated but completed that task and had everything placed in the tank by about 8:00PM.
The tank looks absolutely incredible and far exceeded my expectations! Had I attempted to start this tank from scratch, without Richard's help, I'm sure it would have taken years, and a lot more money, to become as pretty as this one is (in only 2 weeks!).
Well done Richard!
