Internet Coral Drama

I'm taking the plunge once again and buy coral online. My first time did NOT go well. I ordered a decently sized order from zoanuts, with a large acan, some zoa's and an acan frag bag, and it all died! Not Zoanuts fault though. DHL was the one to blame this time. My order got stopped up for a day in Ohio when it was about 5 degrees out. The box came the next day and the water was cold. I acclimated them and put them in my tank, but they all melted overnight. HORRIBLE!!! Luckily zoanuts...who has been amazing about this... refunded me with store credit for the amount ordered. I'm only out shipping.
I don't think there is any way to get DHL to refund my shipping cost is there? They have a guarantee, but I don't think it covers live shipping.
I have a new order coming tomorrow from awesome aquatics, which I'm super excited about. I'm getting 3 acans. An orange crush, a Japanese acan, and a fire lord. I'll post some pictures when I get them. I will also be getting my second order from zoanuts soon. More acan hopefully!
-Kevin

 

I'm not sure about the Japanese acan. I'm buying it from a guy who aquacultured it. So maybe the mother colony is old. It might not be a japanese acan either. Maybe he just ID'd it wrong or something. Who knows.
I'll definetly check into getting my money back for the late delivery though. Thanks for the info Travis.

 

Look what I got!!



The Fire lord is small and needs some TLC, but they look amazing! They all ate very well too. I can't wait to see how they grow.
I have an order coming in tomorrow morning too, from Zoanuts!

 

I got my Zoanuts order in this morning! Shipping worked out well. I'll post pics later once photobucket works. The acans from them are seriously amazing. Big too.

 

Here are the Zoanuts pieces.

Green Fusion


Pure Red


Red and Blue

 

My girlfriend gets mad because I stare at them so much, and give them possibly more attention than her. lol, she'll get used to it... lets hope... The acans from zoanuts eat SOO much. I'm really hoping they will grow at a decent rate. I'm having trouble keeping my calcium up right now because I got a bad batch of stupid Reef Crystals. I have to send in a sample (lame). I'm dosing b-ionic like its my part-time job and constantly checking my calcium levels, which have been consistently too low.