Canada Corals Group Buy (Edmonton and area)

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Hey there local canreefers!

I've checked out canreef's new sponsor (Canada Corals), and they've got some pretty nice stuff!

http://www.canadacorals.com/collections/livestock

In order to get free shipping we need a group buy of $400.
I'm willing to arrange for pick-up for the items you would like! Simply pm me your username, email and list of items (and prices) of the livestock you would like and once we reach the $400 mark, I will place a notice the order is closing and notify all involved of the pick-up time and date! (once everyone has paid of course).

Any questions feel free to pm or post me anytime! :mrgreen:


Cheers,


Steve (somewherebeyondthesea)

[Mike-fish]

Well that sure didn't take long

[Proteus]

Ill be in on this

[fixerupper]

I'm in :)

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Orders are looking good! :biggrin: keep 'em coming!

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Looks like we are a little over half way there! Any more interest please pm me ASAP. We wouldn't want our provincial neighbors taking all the good stuff now would we.:twised:

[xenon]

Let me know if there is anything I can do to make this group-buy go as smooth as possible. :biggrin:

[somewherebeyondthesea]

We are at the $300 mark! Get your orders in as you dont want to miss out! Once we reach $400 the Group Buy will close!

[whytey]

I,am in i will top it off to make it over 400.00

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Ok! Looks like we have reached our $400 mark!

Since I know there are some procrastinators that are sitting on the fence (you know who you are) I'm going to extend the cutoff date to be on Jan.22nd, 2013

After Canada Corals has collected the purchase orders I will setup a pick up date for our awesome frags!


Here is the link to the livestock and dry stock pages:

http://www.canadacorals.com/collections/livestock

http://www.canadacorals.com/collections/dry-goods

Any questions please contact me! I'm friendly! :biggrin:



Cheers,



Steve

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Cut off date is tomorrow!:biggrin:

[xenon]

I created a custom coupon code named "grouporder" so that shipping is 100% free to Steve's address.

That makes it simple to take separate payments from each person. :)

[Baldy]

Pmed

[xenon]

Great order so far. :)

Order will be shipping Thursday for Friday delivery.

[xenon]

Great order so far. :)

Order will be shipping Thursday for Friday delivery.

Turns out Steve is not able to accept Friday delivery. Stay tuned! :mrgreen:

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Order has been closed!

Pick-up will be Saturday! Keep a watchful eye on this thread for when they arrive!

I anticipate they will arrive between 8:30am and 4:00pm.

Once I grab these guys from the airport I will notify you on this thread!


Nice choices! You all have good taste in coral!



Cheers,




Steve

[xenon]

Excellent order guys! We really appreciate the business. :)

Here is a WYSIWYG picture of your group order:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26003034/CanadaCorals.com/Steve.jpg

[subman]

Those forest fire digis are wicked who bought them?

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Guilty! :mrgreen:

[subman]

Sweet looking frag Steve you know who to call when it's fraggin time lol

[xenon]

Those forest fire digis are wicked who bought them?

6 guys from the Edmonton area ordered these frags. :biggrin:

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Sweet looking frag Steve you know who to call when it's fraggin time lol

You know it!:biggrin:

[Baldy]

Damn, that pic is making me look forward to them even more!!

Any idea what kind of heads up we will get on Saturday? Im coming up from camrose and want to stop by red coral on the trip =)

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Damn, that pic is making me look forward to them even more!!

Any idea what kind of heads up we will get on Saturday? Im coming up from camrose and want to stop by red coral on the trip =)

Pm me your cell # I can text you once I have them :-)

[noirsphynx]

Sweet looking frag Steve you know who to call when it's fraggin time lol

And then you can call me when you frag your frag :lol:

[somewherebeyondthesea]

The corals have landed!

I'm on my way to pick them up!

[Baldy]

well, ive had the bags floating for about an hour now and i can see some polyp extension on the montipora digi and birdsnest. not going to lie, i didnt have my hopes up when they arrived so cold, but everything looks ok. we'll just have to see what happens when they hit my water, i dont have a good track record with sps.

[whytey]

Frags are in tank and the colour awesome very nice looking frags, nice size.
they came in very cold under 70 F time will tell

Glen:lol:

[fixerupper]

Corals came very well packed and labelled. The WYSIWYG posting from the supplier is a great comfort to know everything is ok at their end before shipping. I acclimated them over a 2.5 hour period and made sure my new Evergrow IT2040 LED fixture was keeping it's 30% (all channels) setting. I was going to give them a dip of Coral Rx but, as mentioned previously, they arrived very cold and I didn't want to stress them any more than necessary. Rather than placing them in my main display, I decided to play it safe and put them in my cube that was set up a few months ago. They're already getting some polyp extension and don't seem to be as angry as other SPS that I've had shipped. Now, like everything else in this hobby, we wait.

[Baldy]

this is my first try using revive, and im giving all 5 frags i got today a bath in it so hopefully it helps. theres already a couple dead creepy crawlies in the pail so hopefully if theres anything bad on the frags it wont make it.

[whytey]

Here are a couple of pics of the order from Canada Corals...

[whytey]

Have to figure out how to attach pic

Glen

[DAVE]

this is my first try using revive, and im giving all 5 frags i got today a bath in it so hopefully it helps. theres already a couple dead creepy crawlies in the pail so hopefully if theres anything bad on the frags it wont make it.

Good practice to dip no matter what the coral comes in like. Even if I bring stressed coral from overseas I always dip them. IF they don't survive then it wasn't meant to be.

I'd rather a few dead coral then a tank full of dead ones.

When I get frags I also take them off the original plugs and put them on my own plugs. You never know what kind of eggs may be lurking on the plug that Revive/Coral Rx doesn't kill

[Baldy]

Have to figure out how to attach pic

Glen

you have to upload them to a service like photobucket then link the url from there. PM me if you need a hand

[somewherebeyondthesea]

http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o700/somewherebeyondthesea/D9259DF8-5C30-489D-8344-BEF68DAAFEF5-7396-00001FBEC3CC6852_zps573c7f8c.jpg[/IMG]


Here's what I ordered, sorry for the blurry pic, iPad doesn't take very good ones.

[Doug]

I would start another thread for pics if you want, perhaps the picture forum, instead of the buy/sell.

[Baldy]

Heres the pics of mine. second day and the polyps are still extended on the digi and the birdsnest. i was happy to see the zoas open up right away and stay open as well. now if i could just figure out how to get my new toadstool to do the same =/. my pics were taken with a crappy digital camera, so theyre blurred as well.

http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad90/Forced__Induction/CIMG2012_zps842ef70e.jpg

[whytey]

Just checking to see how everyones frags are doing .I lost my yellow acro and one other is not looking good.

Thanks
Glen

[fixerupper]

Just checking to see how everyones frags are doing .I lost my yellow acro and one other is not looking good.

Thanks
Glen

Hey Glen.
Lights over the cube just came on. Looks like I've lost my superman monti. The tissue is brown and slowly sloughing off exposing white skeleton. My pink acropora mille is looking the best of the 5 with good polyp extension. The rainbow monti is doing ok as is the red monti cap and purple rim green monti cap. I'm kinda bummed about the superman m. I don't know how bad the toxins are from a single frag losing tissue. Perhaps I should consider running carbon.

[Baldy]

My green birdsnest MIGHT be bleaching near the frag plug but the tips still have good color and good polyp extension. The hot pink zoas are still hot pink but the tentacles might have lost a bit of color. It could be the lighting tho. And the forest fire digi is doing really good as far as I can tell. I'm no sps expert tho.

[somewherebeyondthesea]

My Forest Fire and Bonsai are doing great:biggrin:! Sadly though I think my mystery acro is slowly losing its skin:sad:

[Twisted-1]

Looks like my bushy blue acro isn't going to make it either😢. Was already missing tissue/bleaching when it arrived. Hoping it pulls through.

[xenon]

I am not surprised that some of those frags are losing tissue. The box arrived very cold due to the weather. Those two 40hr Uni-heat packs was not enough.

I shipped an order to B.C. yesterday with 4 heat packs in a smaller box and it arrived @ 79F.

We have a livestock guarantee for this exact reason so if your corals don't make it, send us a picture via email and we will take care of you. :)

[Baldy]

Not to try and abuse the system, but how long after receiving is that guarantee good for?

[xenon]

Not to try and abuse the system, but how long after receiving is that guarantee good for?

We guarantee that your corals will arrive alive and remain alive for 10 days.

[somewherebeyondthesea]

Perhaps then...the 7 of us that ordered if you can supply canada corals with any pictures of any product that is out of spec we can orgagnize a group shipment if that would help? I'm not sure everyone had complications?

I would like to add those that have been following this thread, that Canada Corals has been responding to emails in a very timely and professional manner.:biggrin:

[axe_man16]

I really like the responses you guys are getting, there are a few things I might like to get in future orders.

[Baldy]

all things considered in still really happy. Personally I'd like to wait a little bit and wlsee what happens with my order but everything looks good so far

[Baldy]

Hey guys, just checking in to see how your corals are doing. So far mine are still doing good. Any fatalities yet?

[xenon]

Hey guys, just checking in to see how your corals are doing. So far mine are still doing good. Any fatalities yet?

We have been notified of fatalities by email. Since it was our fault that the corals arrived so cold, we will be giving refunds instead of credits.

To be honest, I am shocked that some corals made it! The water got so cold, its incredible how resilient some corals really are.

We are now shipping with 3-4 heat packs in a box half that size and corals are arriving @ 78F. :mrgreen:

[Baldy]

my appologies. my intent wasnt to rub salt in a wound. i was just curious if anyones are doing ok thats all.