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so excited but ill be at school lmao. BTW may the best man be president. Nader ON!tygger i didn't quite understand ur reply could u kinda rephrase it a little more and be specific? anyways i have a date with my tanks i got to make the m pretty for picture day my downstais is spotless and i've already moved 2 lfs rocks from upstairs to accumulate my finger coral. i bet hell be happy with more powerful lighting. Just a frag..
yeah i have to admit that it seems unfair that people that didnt order the rock can just go to the store and pickup their own. Kind of an unfair advantage to living within driving distance. However, to my understanding the live rock that is put in the store for walkins does not interfer with the shipouts. So the fact that people are buying rock from the store should not be a factor of the amount of time it takes for you to recieve yours.
Lord Nemo said:
I was referring to the point that it took TBS 2 1/2 weeks to call you about your order... not good.
In my situation, I would have to schedule time off work to pickup the LR from the airport. When scheduling time off, I'd need to know the exact day and let my boss know in advance.
Ancient Storm
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I ordered my rock last March...got through on the first call and they put my order on the plane the day I ordered it. Picked it up after work at Hartford. Maybe they're slower in late winter ?.....but I was extremely pleased with the service and product.
I got my first half (35 gallon package) 3 weeks ago after waiting 2 weeks. 2nd half was shipped 2 days after I said I was ready.
The downside is that when you get psyched up and put in the order, you don't realize you're going to have to wait. I ended up buying two yellow tail damsels in so the wife and kids would have something to look at and I didn't feel that I did all that work to look at an empty tank.
The upside is that my rock was in the gulf on Tuesday and in my tank on Wednesday. That's fresh! I had no die off (so far) and the ammonia never really did anything. The stuff from 3 weeks ago has grown so much. The damsels have been in the tank since before the rock and are doing great. They came out only for a couple of hours when I put in the sand and rock since I knew the water would cloud up. I was going to remove them indefinately, but the water cleared up and they went back in. They stayed in the tank when I put the 2nd shipment in. They weren't thrilled, but also didn't want to get netted.
If I can make another suggestion - when they do ship, if at all possible, wait until the cargo people at your airport say that it's there before you leave the house. I'm an hour from La Guardia and have to pay $8 in tolls. The first shipment was ready and I got a call when I was about 20 seconds from the door. Good timing!
The second shipment was different. The flight was two hours late. Went home after work to wait instead of waiting at the airport. Called cargo and they said it's on the plane, it'll land at 7:30 instead of 5:42 pm. Left the house when delta.com said the plane landed. Got to cargo at 9pm. Cargo guy checked and said there was no cargo on my flight. ****ed much? It would be in at 9:30 am. Remember, plane two hours late, called ahead and told it was on the plane, $8 in tolls, an hour each way to the airport, plans the next day shot. At least it was Friday night and I don't work Saturday. Called Delta cargo in Tampa. All I had to say was "I'm sitting at La Guardia and my stuff isn't here" Response, "You have 3 boxes, right? We brought it to the ramp people and they didn't put it on the plane. The boxes came back at 6:30 and we tried to call the shipper." Me - "ah, how about calling the receiver and telling them they are in the process of wasting their night........" I'm actually giving you the watered down, much less angry version.
Anyway, don't go until you know it's there.
Good luck. There is so much on the rock, it's actually annoying my wife! Give it time.
-Brendan
The downside is that when you get psyched up and put in the order, you don't realize you're going to have to wait. I ended up buying two yellow tail damsels in so the wife and kids would have something to look at and I didn't feel that I did all that work to look at an empty tank.
The upside is that my rock was in the gulf on Tuesday and in my tank on Wednesday. That's fresh! I had no die off (so far) and the ammonia never really did anything. The stuff from 3 weeks ago has grown so much. The damsels have been in the tank since before the rock and are doing great. They came out only for a couple of hours when I put in the sand and rock since I knew the water would cloud up. I was going to remove them indefinately, but the water cleared up and they went back in. They stayed in the tank when I put the 2nd shipment in. They weren't thrilled, but also didn't want to get netted.
If I can make another suggestion - when they do ship, if at all possible, wait until the cargo people at your airport say that it's there before you leave the house. I'm an hour from La Guardia and have to pay $8 in tolls. The first shipment was ready and I got a call when I was about 20 seconds from the door. Good timing!
The second shipment was different. The flight was two hours late. Went home after work to wait instead of waiting at the airport. Called cargo and they said it's on the plane, it'll land at 7:30 instead of 5:42 pm. Left the house when delta.com said the plane landed. Got to cargo at 9pm. Cargo guy checked and said there was no cargo on my flight. ****ed much? It would be in at 9:30 am. Remember, plane two hours late, called ahead and told it was on the plane, $8 in tolls, an hour each way to the airport, plans the next day shot. At least it was Friday night and I don't work Saturday. Called Delta cargo in Tampa. All I had to say was "I'm sitting at La Guardia and my stuff isn't here" Response, "You have 3 boxes, right? We brought it to the ramp people and they didn't put it on the plane. The boxes came back at 6:30 and we tried to call the shipper." Me - "ah, how about calling the receiver and telling them they are in the process of wasting their night........" I'm actually giving you the watered down, much less angry version.
Anyway, don't go until you know it's there.
Good luck. There is so much on the rock, it's actually annoying my wife! Give it time.
-Brendan
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molloy said:
We know how you feel but......the airlines are not what they used to be, but is what we have to deal with...
NEVER go to the airport before call them with the tracking # we give you....as if you have flown lately, you know what it is like.....they are seldom on time anymore..
Mary TBS
Ancient Storm
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TBS live rock pictures
TBS live rock pictures
Here are those pictures you wanted !
I just posted some pics of the TBS live rock 6 months after arrival to my gallery.
Some Stony corals (cladocora arbuscula) still doing well:
Lots of Vegetation and cup corals:
Hitch hiker Gorgonia behind red bush is growing a new branch...
Closeup of some of the many cup corals:
And heres what the rock looked like when it first went into the tank:
Many of the red and orange sponges dint make it...yellow ball sponge just bit the dust couple weeks ago. But the rock is loaded with clams, mussels, cup corals, misc corals, and mostly nice hitch hikers (no Mantis....pheww!). All of the cleanup crew are still alive except for one of the cucumbers.....Good luck with your rock!!
TBS live rock pictures
Here are those pictures you wanted !
I just posted some pics of the TBS live rock 6 months after arrival to my gallery.
Some Stony corals (cladocora arbuscula) still doing well:
Lots of Vegetation and cup corals:
Hitch hiker Gorgonia behind red bush is growing a new branch...
Closeup of some of the many cup corals:
And heres what the rock looked like when it first went into the tank:
Many of the red and orange sponges dint make it...yellow ball sponge just bit the dust couple weeks ago. But the rock is loaded with clams, mussels, cup corals, misc corals, and mostly nice hitch hikers (no Mantis....pheww!). All of the cleanup crew are still alive except for one of the cucumbers.....Good luck with your rock!!
im so sorry for the delay guys i been having computer technical diffulculties and i cant get my image to the right siz but ill tell u right now thier rock is friggin awesoem tons of life and nice corals i did have a bit of die back on my sponges though but thats ok rocks still great. worst part was taht it gave em a huge ammonia spike so it delayed me now im rready to add the rest of y corals after mywater change though i cant quite get my phyton to fit the faucet guess ill do it the old ashion way again... ill try to make a websie link believ me these rocks rock well worth the wait.
My $.02 worth.
While it has been going on 3 weeks since my tank cycled, many phone calls going unanswered trying to get my second shipment sent, and the tank needing a good cleaning now; the TBS "Package" is worth it with many various colors, lifeforms and good rock.
Now if I can only get passed the hurdle of getting the second shipment I think all will be well. Beleive me when i say the weather down there has not been the best for boating or diving.
While it has been going on 3 weeks since my tank cycled, many phone calls going unanswered trying to get my second shipment sent, and the tank needing a good cleaning now; the TBS "Package" is worth it with many various colors, lifeforms and good rock.
Now if I can only get passed the hurdle of getting the second shipment I think all will be well. Beleive me when i say the weather down there has not been the best for boating or diving.
Lord Nemo,
I didn't use a hose with my fw tank for a year because of my faucets. I finally found out that there is a little addapter. Unscrew the washer on your faucet and the adapter goes right in.
Glad I got my second shipment when I did. It'll be 2 weeks on Saturday.
Ancient Storm,
Did you feed your cup corals or stoney corals? If so, what? I understand we may have to feed each one by hand. A guy I trust at the LFS has said that Bioplankton is all I need (besides feeding the fish)
-Brendan
I didn't use a hose with my fw tank for a year because of my faucets. I finally found out that there is a little addapter. Unscrew the washer on your faucet and the adapter goes right in.
Glad I got my second shipment when I did. It'll be 2 weeks on Saturday.
Ancient Storm,
Did you feed your cup corals or stoney corals? If so, what? I understand we may have to feed each one by hand. A guy I trust at the LFS has said that Bioplankton is all I need (besides feeding the fish)
-Brendan
Ancient Storm
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Molley, I do feed the cups and stoneys by hand...with frozen mysis shrimp. Let em thaw in a cup, with a little water from the tank. Then I suck some up in a long airline tubing and blow the mysis gently onto the corals. The cup corals are voracious. The gobble the mysis up. The stoneys prefer the mysis chopped. BUT.....I just bought a torch coral from a local reefer and he had an awesome tank....he said he never feeds em anything but calcium, plankton and micro-vert. Hope that helps.
