Waiting for my coral order is like Xmas eve.

[Chrisv.]

Haha it's been a long time since I've looked forward to something this much. I put in a big online coral order after one of the live sales ended and it's finally going to arrive tomorrow.

List is:
HG torch
Green and purple Cynarina
Orange with yellow tentacles plate coral
Green with purple tentacles plate coral
Blue and green lobo
Red and neon green lobo (misclassified)
Orange and red acan (micromussa)
Pink and yellow goni
Green glitter goni
Blue and yellow goni

Anyone else waiting for a coral/fish order tomorrow? What's on your list?

 

[Seansea]

Grats. Looks like some good stuff. Now the not so fun job of mounting them.

 

[Chrisv.]

Grats. Looks like some good stuff. Now the not so fun job of mounting them.

It will be interesting to see if it looks anything like the photos online. If even half as good I'll be content.

I also bought a giant pack of polyp lab reef glue. For years I've been a "super glue brand doesn't matter" person, but I really do like their formula.

 

[Chrisv.]

Some of my order is still ticked off from shipping, but I thought I'd share these two plates.

Standard orange filter with whatever processing an iPhone does. No fancy retouching. Looks accurate by eye.

 

[VintageReefer]

Some of my order is still ticked off from shipping, but I thought I'd share these two plates.

Standard orange filter with whatever processing an iPhone does. No fancy retouching. Looks accurate by eye.

those look great to me ! How’s the torch! I’ll follow this thread for updates! New coral is the best!

I’m excited for an order also but it’s not shipping for at least a week. Waiting is the worst but it gives me time to move things to make space

 

[VintageReefer]

Cynarina are also a favorite of mine, I have a bunch of them, looking forward to seeing pics of yours when ready. They do take about a week to fully expand and open

 

[Chrisv.]

those look great to me ! How’s the torch! I’ll follow this thread for updates! New coral is the best!

I’m excited for an order also but it’s not shipping for at least a week. Waiting is the worst but it gives me time to move things to make space

The torch is a bit slower to acclimate. It's not terrible, but it's not fantastic either. I think the color was better when it first came out of the box than it is after half a week in my tank. It probably just needs to stabilize and color back up.

 

[Chrisv.]

Cynarina are also a favorite of mine, I have a bunch of them, looking forward to seeing pics of yours when ready. They do take about a week to fully expand and open

Yeah the Cynarina is looking a little meh right now too. It's for sure starting to inflate, but I can tell from the algae free halo on the tile that the corals glued to around the base of the coral ...he is only about 1/3 there.

 

[VintageReefer]

Yeah the Cynarina is looking a little meh right now too. It's for sure starting to inflate, but I can tell from the algae free halo on the tile that the corals glued to around the base of the coral ...he is only about 1/3 there.

Low flow
Medium lighting
Feed 2-3x a week (always with at least 24 hours between feedings )

Most got to full size in 1 week. Some of these took 2 - 3 weeks to get to this size.

 

[BryanM]

Slightly different story here, ask VR…

But I recently purchased a trachy…. And ups took almost the entire delivery window to get it to my door.

My last big order had 6 items. I find it quite stressful to deal with that much at the same time.

 

[Macbalacano]

Congrats those are some gorgeous pieces!