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[renogaw]

UPS just came back, my thermos was shattered in their truck and the water was everywhere, eventhough i had put it in foam and everything. the star polyp looks ok but has no water now till i get home. Would the heat pad have shattered the thermos glass? I did not attach it to the thermos, but had it in the box.

 

[cdangel0]

NO way - a thermos is designed to hold boiling liquids i.e 212 degrees farenheight. Your heat pack probably tops out at about 104.
Probably threw it on the truck and busted it.

 

[renogaw]

if it weren't my every day ups pickup/delivery guy i'd think the same. but trust me when i say the darn thing was surrounded by foam. he swears he didn't do anything but put on his truck for $8 i'm not going to do a claim, just ticks me off that my first trade cross country isnt working out right.

 

[cdangel0]

Well ij re-thinking my initial response - was the thermos cold when you put the coral in? If the glass was real cold - say sitting in your car in CT over-night in March - then you added 80 degree water and put a 110 degree heat pack next to it I guess it would be possible for the heat pack to break the glass.

 

[renogaw]

it was in my house over night (67ish) i ran hot water through it to warm up the glass (90?) put tank water into it (78ish). it lasted 6 hours in my office before packing it up. put the heat pack in the box, ups picked up, 2 hrs later he came back saying it was leaking.
There are some plastic thermoses i guess i'll have to try, but the glass ones hold the temp for upwards of 12 hrs.

 

[renogaw]

sigh
the star polyps havent reopened yet either. been a rough day for them

 

[fishfryer]

you should be using plastic thermo not glass and this willl not happen. get them cheap at wallmart

 

[cdangel0]

Give the stars time - they get real picky about being moved around anyway - whenI first brought mine home they didn't open for 3 days.
They are probably extremely stressed and just ned a bit to relax.

 

[renogaw]

they finally opened last night.

 

[cdangel0]

That's good to hear. They are pretty hardy and darn near impossible to kill. I lost a piece for months, finally found it buried under a piece of rock, came back just fine.