FedEx lost package of 35 sps corals being shipped to me

[GreshamH]

OK, addressing the decent amount of water and corals using little O2 points:

Using an Acropora respiration rate of 0.2 gO2 m^-2 hr^-1 (derived from A. palmata), and an O2 solubility of 6.6 mg/L at 25C and 35 psu salinity in water, if we place a 5 cm x 5 cm piece of coral in 1 L of oxygen saturated seawater, after only 13 hours, less than 2% of the original mass of O2 in the water will remain! That's 100 millionths of a gram of O2. In an entire liter! Proper gas headspace and sufficient oxygenation of that headspace is a MAJOR factor!

That said, these pictures make me ill. Those corals are incredibly poorly packed and probably looked about the same yesterday.

You chose one of those most o2 demanding corals :lol:

Don't forget, the plastic used is o2 permeable to a degree, no bags we use block o2 transfer entirely.

 

[zackw]

A few weeks ago I had a shipment of acros get delayed on a saturday. It was shipped friday, and didnt make it till monday and n top of that, on monday i had to work so I couldnt not get home to open box untill 7:00 monday evening. So these five acros sat in texas friday and saturday where the heat was 110 and sat in tennessee two more days where the heat was 85. Only half a cold pack was used as well. Believe it or not two of the five acros survived! Even though the shipper has very good shipping practices I would have never thought any acro would have survived that long in a box with half a cold pack in the. heat! An Acro Miracle!

 

[neverwouldof]

Well to wrap up my experience, He sent a second shipment with Styrofoam but still sent with tiny bit of water. Out of the 35 I think I should have 29-30 live. One was in light brown water when I got it and the other few looked stressed and have since started to disintegrate. I'm leaving them in there as you never know, there might be a tiny bit of tissue that holds on. All the other coral are looking ok with good color.

I wish I remembered who I got my first corals from, He only sells like once a year and he was absolutely the man! His corals had better color then I see in magazines and that is after their overnight trip. I'm going to do some hunting in paypal to see if I can find out who it was....

 

[franklypre]

Sounds like Copps to me.

 

[neverwouldof]

And you sir would be correct !!!

Copps it was

 

[rtbm]

About three years ago i did a trade with a guy in the summer.

Fed ex actually lost the box. Had no idea what happened to it. It was off the grid and gone.

About a week later I come home to a box on my front porch.

It was the coral and believe it or not it was all alive but one If i remember. They had lost a bit of color but were otherwise ok.

If i had not seen it with my own eyes I would not have believed it but the weather was perfect and he used a really good thick styro. A total of six days had passed.


I have mentioned this at least once in an older thread about a similar circumstance

Still makes my day when I think about it.

 

[aandfsoccr04]

Sounds like Copps to me.

:lol:

I said the same exact thing as soon as I read his post.
Hilarious :lmao:

 

[ptreef]

brown water upon arrival sounds like tissues loss and basically DOA.