Mail Order Critters - How do they come packaged?

[Brian McCarty]

Hello everyone. Thanks to all of you who answered my earlier questions.
For my next question, I was wonder how mail order critters

arrive when you purchase them online? More specifically I am really curious
about how corals and anemones arrive. Are they attached

to something? In the case of anemones, how to you place them in the aquarium
without damaging its "foot"? Same for the corals (just

some general info. here because I understand that needs vary from one
organism to the next. It is going to be some time (month or two)

before I add any of the above mentioned animals. Any info. you can share
will be greatly appreciated.



On another note, I just ordered 40 lbs of live sand (using that to seed 20
lbs or so of "dead" sand. I also ordered 65 lbs. of Carribean live rock.
Things are moving along nicely.

[Brian McCarty]

"Brian McCarty" > wrote in message
...
> Hello everyone. Thanks to all of you who answered my earlier questions.
> For my next question, I was wonder how mail order critters
>
> arrive when you purchase them online? More specifically I am really
curious
> about how corals and anemones arrive. Are they attached
>
> to something? In the case of anemones, how to you place them in the
aquarium
> without damaging its "foot"? Same for the corals (just
>
> some general info. here because I understand that needs vary from one
> organism to the next. It is going to be some time (month or two)
>
> before I add any of the above mentioned animals. Any info. you can share
> will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> On another note, I just ordered 40 lbs of live sand (using that to seed 20
> lbs or so of "dead" sand. I also ordered 65 lbs. of Carribean live rock.
> Things are moving along nicely.
>
> (In response to your suggestions about cc mixed with live sand, I removed
most of the cc to make room for the sand. Just thought I would add this.)

[richard reynolds]

> Hello everyone. Thanks to all of you who answered my earlier questions.
> For my next question, I was wonder how mail order critters
> arrive when you purchase them online? More specifically I am really
curious
> about how corals and anemones arrive. Are they attached
> to something? In the case of anemones, how to you place them in the
aquarium
> without damaging its "foot"? Same for the corals (just
> some general info. here because I understand that needs vary from one
> organism to the next. It is going to be some time (month or two)

it really is both animal specific AND vendor specific, some corals will come
attached to a piece of LR, others plastic, and even others will be un
attached. anemone's will come in a bag, and after a careful and long
aclimation all the water in the bag should be from your tank(if its not keep
aclimating), and carefully place bag into tank let anemone fall into hand,
place anemone carefully on something, pull bag out, trying to not let water
out of the bag. this works for corals also.

generally all livestock is in a bag, then in a styrophome box, hot/cold
packs as needed and shiped next day or 2 day (animal dependant too)
I dont recall which company, but someone sent me an amemone in a plastic
box, it is treated the same way.

> before I add any of the above mentioned animals. Any info. you can share
> will be greatly appreciated.
>