Red or Yellow florida rics?

If they can get those color morphs and I lived 8 hrs away I would just camp outside their store the night before their big shipment arrives. :D
 
There was this guy that bought a ton of sps frags from me before and he lives in Canada. What he did was drive down to WA and picked it up there so the frags dont' have to go through customs. However I had another guy from Canada telling me that he had no problems shipping corals from the US to Canada and that he didn't need any cites or licenses to ship them across the border. Maybe he labeled the corals as something else? I'm not exactly clear.
 
I think shipping between the US and Canada can be done without CITES and permits, but it's really risky and illegal. You'll get fined for violating CITES, and probably your rics would be sent back to the seller. Sometimes you could get away with it if you label the package as a "gift" (pers exp. (not corals tho)), but with such a big heavy package, like what we're talking about, some people might get nosy.

Also, keep in mind that those photos in their photobucket website are the absolute creme of the crop. When they get in shipments, they get like 2000 polyps! You'd really have to offer $ to get them to cherry pick those rare color out of their huge stock, cause someone local is just as willing as we are to pay $200, $300, $400 for a small colony.
 
I'm sure we can get them to cherry pick for us since we can just divide up the nice colonies between ourselves but pay a premium for them. I mean if we can get let's say a 10 polyp colony and divide up between 3-4 people how much are you guys willing to pay? Honestly I don't mind just a few polyps of each unusual morph and just let them grow in my tank. Takes forever to get a nice colony out of "one" ricordia but it's getting that morph that's most important.
 
For sure, I'd pay red yuma prices for a polyp of some of those morphs, BUT I was just saying that they have such a strong local market, it might be difficult to get their attention down this way, despite the extra monetary incentives.

Also, I think it might be futile to persue this further until they get their new stock in after the new store's opening... (but never hurts to keep trying........)
 
I'm still wondering if those colors will keep in our tanks. Some of those colors look insane but does anyone have pics of those rare morphs in their own personal tanks? What kind of lighting are they using? I might have missed the lighting info in this thread but I want to know what kind they using to bring out those amazing colors.
 
20k XM bulbs only.

The colors should stay the same, unless they are bleached, then they will darken, but shouldn't be a color SHIFT.

I'm gonna look for a pic I saw of their rics in a tank with a 250w MH. Gimme a sec...
 
There is NO photoshop or deceptive lighting on these photos. Everything is taken under 20K XM and the photo was taken when we first received the shipment... thus, everything is under stress.
 
So I guess the question is if they colors keep AFTER they acclimate to the tank. So we need to find pics of those. =)
 
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