damp shipped imported Zoanthids pictorial

[popwin]

that's incredible.

A lot of people don't believe that zoanthids can be damp shipped, so I took some pictures of an import yesterday to show how a lot of them are packaged when they're shipped into the US. If you're shipping them yourself you want to put them wrapped in newspaper into a small bag with a little bit of air in it so that the water doesn't evaporate. There were about 30+ colonies in this box so there was no worry of evaporation since it was sealed tight. A lot of people don't know most of their zoanthids came in like this, enjoy!

Here's the box half unpacked

The other half of the unpacked bags

An unpacked colony

What they look like the next day

 

[Rockys_Pride]

did the rest of the polyps open in the following days or did those just die?

 

[SIR PATRICK]

I received some damp shipped zoas yesterday. Opened right up! It was pretty cold, here in michigan yesterday too.

I appreciate the thread!

 

[organism]

did the rest of the polyps open in the following days or did those just die?

Nope, all of them opened up aside from a couple of sections on a few of the colonies that didn't get enough flow and ended up melting.