myztical
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8:00 pm Thursday night I put my order for the package.
8:00 am I check my email and Richard has already emailed back that he was ready with my order.
Later that SAME evening I am back from the airport with part 1 of the package.
Whoa!
2 heavy boxes were packed extremely well. I had no leaking. Inside the rock and sand were bagged separate (in water) and it was literally bags within bags within more bags. After taking everything out and putting it in the tank I inspected the leftover water in the bags and found some snails and tiny crabs and a teeny (1cm) pistol shrimp.
Amazing live rock, crawling with life, literately! I couldn't be more happy and absolutely cannot wait for part 2 after my tank has cycled.
On with my amateur iPhone pics that I am super intimidated to post up but here they are.
About 5 hours after putting in live rock
Feather dusters? Orange, red and purple stuff
Cool larger snail with clam like thing on it.
Whoa! Gorilla crab, I found about 4 of these they are small.
Red purple and white stuff.
Crab (hermit?) about 1 in. His arms that he eats with are black and white.
Rock anemone or warty anemones?
Dark purple urchin about 1.5 inches
Neat looking little black blob with a ring of white eyes, no clue. Gray blob with white inside and whelk.
Teeny decorator crab, he is to the upper left of the red spot, you can see two white objects that look like a bird flying from very far away. Those are broken shells on his back.
8:00 am I check my email and Richard has already emailed back that he was ready with my order.
Later that SAME evening I am back from the airport with part 1 of the package.
Whoa!
2 heavy boxes were packed extremely well. I had no leaking. Inside the rock and sand were bagged separate (in water) and it was literally bags within bags within more bags. After taking everything out and putting it in the tank I inspected the leftover water in the bags and found some snails and tiny crabs and a teeny (1cm) pistol shrimp.
Amazing live rock, crawling with life, literately! I couldn't be more happy and absolutely cannot wait for part 2 after my tank has cycled.
On with my amateur iPhone pics that I am super intimidated to post up but here they are.
About 5 hours after putting in live rock
Feather dusters? Orange, red and purple stuff
Cool larger snail with clam like thing on it.
Whoa! Gorilla crab, I found about 4 of these they are small.
Red purple and white stuff.
Crab (hermit?) about 1 in. His arms that he eats with are black and white.
Rock anemone or warty anemones?
Dark purple urchin about 1.5 inches
Neat looking little black blob with a ring of white eyes, no clue. Gray blob with white inside and whelk.
Teeny decorator crab, he is to the upper left of the red spot, you can see two white objects that look like a bird flying from very far away. Those are broken shells on his back.
