I am lucky enough to live in Tampa so I can't personally tell you how well it ships but I have gone out to their warehouse and bought some and it was great. All of the pieces were loaded with critters, coralline algae (reds, oranges, greens, pinks, purples), sponges, corals etc. Some of my rocks even had clams and oysters in them. From reading this site I have seen good comments from those who had it shipped.