Broken package

[Eduardo B]

Dear all,
A few days ago, I received an acroporas importation form FIJI, 12 beautiful pieces, 2 of them in very bad conditions. The cause was that the interior nylon bags were burst and the newspaper that is between the bags contaminates the water with ink and other papers contaminating substances, and on top of that, the paper absorbs half of the water inside the bag, leaving the coral exposed.
So I was looking for a post that deal with this kind of problems, but I didn't find anything specific, so I am asking for your help in order to increase the information about this problem and send it to the origin frags producers to minimize the losses for this cause. Thanks in advance for your time and attention.

 

[returnofsid]

Double bagging, or even triple bagging, will usually keep this from happening. Another option would be to use thicker bags.

 

[chilwil84]

i wouldnt think there were any problems with the newspaper leaching because they used to ship sps just wrapped in damp newspaper.