Originally Posted by
juice_1080
http:///forum/post/2489038
Good deal. Right now all I really have are Zoanthids and different types of shrooms (discosomas, ricordias, rhodactis, etc) but of course I don't have enough corals in my tank
Are you going to be doing another one of these threads when the weather gets better or should I just try to find you on here?
The good weather has already started in many places so probably still be this thread. THey do ship very well as long as the weather is not causing flight delays. I thermos, insulate and heatpack them. Ricordea do very well in shipping.
***And a tip for everyone which I will post later somewhere else. I just read a thread on -- where someone ordered some rics from an aauction seller and drip acclimated them to their tank. Over the coarse of the next few days most of the ricordea were jelled and lost.
I cannot stress this enough. DO NOT ACCLIMATE CORALS! There is not need. Corals produce a slime that protects them and by acclimating them you are prolonging the time they are in a stressed state and introducing them to 3 different water conditions. The water they traveled in, the water you are making by adding your tank water and the final destination water.
For ricordea florida I recommend that you remove them from their container and place them in the dry for 30-60 seconds to get their protective slime going and then place them directly into the system they are destined for.
There is much debate on this but I can guarantee that if you do a poll and everyone is honest you will find that people that place their corals right into their systme have far less loss then those that drip acclimate.
This does not apply to fish and inverts that respire.