Second Annual Coast to Coast Sand Trade!

[Tasher80]

I hope mine comes tomorrow. Haven't gotten it yet.

 

[Micki]

I got my sand today too James! The outside box had a few holes and was a little wet, but not bad! I added it to the fuge. Had a small sand storm but fine otherwise. I already see a lot of life!

 

[beanpole209]

hey this thread is entirely too long ! but hey hadnt checked in in a wile I forgot when i'm supposto get my sand and didnt feel like reading the " Second Annual Coast to Coast Sand Trade!" book so james just a reminder you can just email me when you are about to send it.

 

[Jamesurq]

Beanpole - you're on the last ship date (May 23rd.)

 

[moujon]

James- thanks for all the hard work. I've got the week of the 23rd marked on the calendar!

Can't wait to add new life to the sand bed.

 

[klongo]

So, it looks like I have the only "bad shipping experience" from the last week

My box arrived on Monday the 9th and had been repackaged by the mailman --

James, I was supposed to receive two portions, but there's only one bag (open) in the box. Did you send both portions in one bag? or did I lose one?

I'm going to add this to my QT tank and see what grows. So, please add my name to the want to buy list and I'll buy a couple of portions when it's available.

 

[tammym1961]

Hi James! Was just wondering if when you send my box, could you take extra care in packaging it. I don't care if it takes me forever to unwrap it. It's being sent to my work and I don't think my doctor's would appreciate having all of their mail wet. Sorry if I sound unappreciative because I absolutely am not!! Thanks for all your hard work!

Tammy

 

[diddye]

hi james, got the bag today and it looks great. However, I do have one warning/comment. I think i got a whelk in my bag(not sure). It looked like a huge nassarius snail. If it is, it can eat clams(according to meelvs) and I removed it. It didn't burrow in the sand, had different coloration, and some kind of cover on its tail just as described by meelv. So if im right, guys please check your sand just in case. If you dont keep clams, then dont worry.

 

[Jamesurq]

Kat - sorry about that. I've had pretty good luck overall, with some slight leakage... I'll make sure future shipments to everyone have a little more baggage to help the leaks...

Diddye - almost positive what you had there is an IO nassarius - there's quite a few of them in the trade. My opinion is they're harmless. I've had hundreds of them in my tank before with zero problems.

I can say for sure that they don't eat clams.

Unless I'm mistaken as to what you had.... Can you shoot a picture - or show a comparison picture?

BTW -

Dcoufal
Essop3
CSCr212
Gallery
Lobsterofjustice
Bugs825
Diddye
Colorado Matt
Magnum300
harryt

These were the shipments for Monday. Sorry if I didn't mention it earlier, I had to go out of town to NJ again.... I packaged them up VERY late Sunday night and my wife had to lug them to the post office...

 

[Jamesurq]

oops = double post.

 

[silkchaos]

I had to go out of town to NJ again.... I packaged them up VERY late Sunday night and my wife had to lug them to the post office...

Hmm.. Is the wife going to let you do another sand trade next year?

 

[klongo]

James -

Not a problem. Mine didn't have any leaks - the box just appeared crushed and opened and of course sat at the post office all weekend. Definitely not your fault....I found one beautiful little nassarius running around this morning so I'm hoping that the rest of the life in the sand is still alive. It's not spiking my QT at this point, so I'm going to add it to my display this weekend.

 

[Jamesurq]

Hmm.. Is the wife going to let you do another sand trade next year?

define "let"

 

[cscr212]

Can you say SOUTHDOWN STORM?
Package arrived today only slightly damp, but otherwise in excellent condition. I can't believe I'm this excited over sand. Oh well, it must be the salt water in my blood. Thanks again for doing this James. I enjoyed participating.
By the way, will you leave the sand setup in place for next years trade or will you take it down and start over? I'm just wondering if the current batch will just continue to brew and breed and fill with life and thus augment the next trade, or if it will start fresh.
Thanks.
Sonny

 

[essop3]

Thanks for the sand. No leaks, hope to see the life soon.

 

[dcoufal]

Received today.... in a USPS "Sorry we ran over your package with a bulldozer" bag....

The box was moist, the outer ziploc had a hole in it - but, the inner bag seemed intact. Ah, well...

Put the whole thing in a 1gal tank to see what "surfaces" after the southdown storm - and a little food. If all looks well into the tank it'll go.

Thanks James.

Dwain

 

[Bugs825]

Hey James,


Got the sand on Wednesday. Package was fine. put it in the tank and when the dust settled I saw 2 spaghetti worms as well as worm trails. I will check the pod population tonight.

Thanks again
Nathan

 

[Jamesurq]

good to hear everyone got their sand (with some minor issues - sorry about that).

cscr212 - the sand will stew until next year - what's left of it.

 

[Jamesurq]

by the way, this week I added to the sandtrade:

15 lbs of Marshall Islands uncured rock from exoticfish.com
20 lbs of liverock rubble from the bottom of Dr. Mac's curing tubs
A couple of pounds of his sand
10 lbs of liverock rubble from John in Tampa (Fish and Ichty Things)
10 lbs of the grunge from the bottom of John's large rock curing tanks.

A little extra jolt

 

[gallery]

just to let you know got my sand today. box was a mess. actuly not much of a box left. no big deal though i dont care whos mail got runed as long as i got my sand.

thanks for all the work on this