While looking around on RC I glanced upon a banner ad for
www.yourreef.com and for whatever reason clicked to check it out. The website is simple and relatively small -- but what caught my eye were the low prices on their frag packs. 20 SPS frags for $175, 10 SPS for $99, 9 Zoos for $99, etc etc etc. On top of that already great deal, overnight shipping is free for orders over $175 (and on top of that, there are no hidden charges for boxing, heat packs, etc).
Long story short, I placed an order for 10 SPS and 9 Zoos for $198 and paid a little extra ($15) to have FedEx deliver it on Saturday, since of course I'm not home to acclimate during the week with work and all. I placed the order on Friday morning and the box of corals was delivered at 9:30am the following Saturday morning.
I was surprised the box was so small, and was also worried because it was dripping water.
Inside the little styrofoam box was some wet newspaper and a single heat pack. This shipment was from California to Georgia, and it's been unseasonably warm in the south so the single heat pack didn't concern me.
The frags were individually bagged in tiny plastic bags and filled with water. Some frags (each in a seperate small bag) were combined together in one larger bag, not sure why. Therefore, you won't count 10+9 bags in this picture.
I drip acclimated the new corals for a little over 2hrs, then slowly glued them one-by-one to rocks in the aquarium.
I tried taking some pictures of the corals after everything was in the tank, but I can't for the life of me take decent pictures with my digital camera (even in macro mode). With the exception of two of the acroporas, every SPS was showing polyp extension and all Zoos had opened up.
Overall, I'm very, very pleased with my YourReef.com experience and will highly recommend them to anyone interested in a box full of frags for a fraction of what you'd pay at the store.
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