In the past, I've always purchased everything from my LFS - a great store with decent prices about 20 minutes away. I finally decided that I wanted to branch out, and rather than have them custom order, I purchased from a well known online vendor (who will remain nameless for now) and had a shipping catastrophe.
I got paged by Fedex at 12:04, was home at 12:08 to begin acclimating, and as soon as I picked up the box, I noticed it was wet. I unpacked it quickly and found a bag containing a mushroom (it may have been a red bullseye - to be honest, I can't really tell) crushed and empty - its water spilled all over the rest of the contents.
I'm acclimating that one a bit faster than normal, as I imagine it's been dry for up to 18 hours (time of shipment) - my question is: what are the chances it's going to survive?
I also ordered 4 - four - zebra hermits just to get some into my tank - small nano, 24G, was quite surprised when they shipped 5-6 times as many as I ordered. They've found homes with a friend, but that was certainly not what I expected...
I got paged by Fedex at 12:04, was home at 12:08 to begin acclimating, and as soon as I picked up the box, I noticed it was wet. I unpacked it quickly and found a bag containing a mushroom (it may have been a red bullseye - to be honest, I can't really tell) crushed and empty - its water spilled all over the rest of the contents.
I'm acclimating that one a bit faster than normal, as I imagine it's been dry for up to 18 hours (time of shipment) - my question is: what are the chances it's going to survive?
I also ordered 4 - four - zebra hermits just to get some into my tank - small nano, 24G, was quite surprised when they shipped 5-6 times as many as I ordered. They've found homes with a friend, but that was certainly not what I expected...
