I was thinking about ordering the frag pack from Pacific East and was looking to see if anyone had some feedback.

anyone?

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apparently not, but how bad can it be?

I thought this deal was popular.

Yup, be the first and give us a review of how it is.

Yea, I just sold some of my corals to buy some new stuff. I was planning to place an order tomorrow.

what about any of the other frag packs from some of the more popular vendors?

I got the 14 ric pack from coral morphologic last month and they were great.

I don't know about pacific east aquaculture but if you want a great frag pacck hit up yourreef.com john always gives great deals. they are also a NR sponser so you can buy with confidence

check'em out
http://www.yourreef.com/index.html

Thanks for the link scottyreef. The frag packs that they have look good. Have you ordered anything from them?

I ordered a custom Ric pack from Xiong Aquatics Monday and got it today.It was AWESOME they even hooked me up with a few freebies.

I havent ordered from them but they are my lfs and john the owner has been my friend for years they have great service and he has arrive alive guarantee. A great deal of corals in my tank are right from him

that frag pack from yourreef looks good. Still no review on the pacific east?

I also want to say that coral morpologic is great for rics with the 14 for $99 pack. they even sent me a few extra.

If not Pacific East, does anyone know of some other good frag packs.

I did not order a frag pack but the corals I just got from Mr.Coral look awesome.
Oh and I got three for free!!!

I did order from Mr. Coral last year and I was not pleased. I had a zoo frag melt on day one and all of the corals looked nothing like the pics on the web.

bump. I want to order today and I don't know what to get.

Well I just placed an order with yourreef.com for the 20 sps frag pack and the 5 zoo frag pack for $250. I will let you guys know how everything looks when I get the box Friday morning.

Yeah, post some pics. I'm interested in their stuff too, particularly the zoas.

nimrod- I will post some pics when I get the pack Friday morning.

I got the frags in this morning and they look great. They gave me a few extra sps frags as well. I will post some pics later and I will need some id help on a few of them.

I must have missed this one. I have to say that the 12 for $99 deal with Pacific East is a great deal, if anyone thinks about ordering from them. It has been a long time so pics would be pointless, especially since they have grown so much in the past year that everything has been fragged but I ended up with green with pink polyp poci, pink birds nest, dragon eyes zoas, bonsai acro, blueberry acro and pink stylo, amoung other things, and there was no real adjustment time in my tank. Everything opened and all have grown like crazy and are definitely worth it. Just wanted to share as I have ordered form other sites but never had any corals as healthy as Pacific East.

Yea, the corals I got are open already. The sps frags are nicer than the zoas. I will get some pics up tonight.

pics coming today.

Hurry Twister!!!!!! I wanna see them

my friend is coming over tonight with his 900 dollar camera, so I will get some great pics.
Porkchop- are you interested in buying a pack?

pics are here any id help would be helpful.

more pics, the acro on the rock also came with the pack.

i hate to say this but i think one of ur frags has the dreaded red bugs ist the big purpleish brown one in the 3rd pic to the left.

Good spot Weeber. Sad too. Looks like you got some decent frags otherwise, including a nice lokani and a sunset monti, but red bugs? Yeesh.

is that bad and if so should I contact yourreef.com because they do look like orange bugs and they were there from the start.

yes its bad. you need to find yourself some intecept0r [dog heartworm medication, which is perscription only] and treat the ENTIRE tank now. you will also want to remove any hermits,shrimp as they will all die during treatment (including your entire pod population)

this item should not have gone in your system. do a search for redbugs for more information

anyone?

could it have spread within 2 days? i took the frag out.

Fcuk thats insane.
I just learned from this and will do dips in the future.

ok lesson learned no one should order from yourreef.com

taking the frag out will help, but there is a 99% chance that they have already spread throughout the tank. any sps you have can, and most likely will, get them without treatment

so what should i do? I have an empty bc 14 with just live rock I can treat the acro frags in.

I don't know how yourreef did not notice this in their frag tanks when they sent them to me.

It is almost impossible for a seller with that much livestock to not have some redbugs. With the turn over and amount of corals in and out of their system there is always possibilites for pests. Its up to you to examine, dip and quarintine all new stuff. I learned the hard way too and saw these little red dots moving all over my acros one day. I use Coral Revive bath for all sps before in goes in my display tank. I have killed red bugs with this stuff too. But this is prior to putting them in the tank. Coral Revive is not for in tank treatment, just a dip.

Good Luck! Lesson Learned.

should I buy some coral revive and dip the frags?

That dip is usually for dipping new stuff prior to putting in tank. The bugs are in your tank now. So I suggest refering to the Interceptor method and treating the tank.

what is the interceptor method?

I don't agree i have done a lot of reading on the matter and if you catch it early with in a week or two the red bug don't seem to spread. i would take out the effective coloines and dip them in revive and i am going to have a little talk with brandon the guy who bagged and shipped those frags toyou because allf rags from them SHOULD of been dipped already. I am sorry about the red bug problem here fallow this thread iwrote a couple months back and you hopefully you will be rid of your problem. I have used interceptor in the past it works but it is for major infestations and coloines that are fully encrusted and glued down


http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...p;hl=scottyreef

ps dont let all these people stress you out redbugs arn't really that bad at least its not acro eating flatworms or monti eating nudibranchs those are really bad

also if u want to use a natural remedy to ur problem if u dont want to use interceptor but this only works if u have a small amount is ive heard dragonface pipefish munch on red bugs along with some other fish so if ur up to the challenge of keeping a pipefish u can use that way but those fish r better if u just want to make sure u dont get them again cause they wont seek and destroy every red bug in the tank if u have a whole bunch they think of red bugs as more of a snack. good luck.

Thanks for the info scotty. I was one of those who read that they were all over once you had them. But I can say that after dipping my corals in revive, The little red buggers were all dead in the dip bucket. That stuff is awesome!

thanks for the clarification scottyreef

Hi,
Sorry to here that two of the frags had Red Bugs. They come in on wild colonies a lot and some of the frags came out of our wild coral tanks. The other frags came from our display tanks which are free of red bugs. Anyway, they are easy to eliminate. here is some good info.
http://www.melevsreef.com/redbugs.html
Red bugs used to scare people but now most experienced reefers no longer worry about them unless a coral is covered. In that case the coral will become stressed out and may stop extending polyp's to feed. That's the point where most people will treat for them. Still others never worry about them as red bugs do not eat Acropora the way Acropora Eating Flat worms do. Some people even believe they may keep acros safe from such harmful parasites. Either way I do my best to keep them out of my personal tanks. Here in the store we have treated all our display tanks and farming tanks and are 100% red bug free. However the tanks where the wild corals are only treated occasionaly.
7 or 8 years ago, when the Red Bug scare first hit the internet I discovered the Acro's in my home tank were invested with them. I quickly treated the tank with interceptor and expected to have my corals color and growth improve. However it ended up not changing a thing. The tank had looked nice with the red bugs and without. These days I only worry about keeping my tanks free of them because some people still spread rumors that they will eat and kill your acros. Again, most reefers who have been doing this a long time consider them an eye sore, a minor irritant and only treat them when they hit plague proportions.
Anyway, If I remeber right we sent you a few extra corals. If you want you can dip those frags or toss them if you like. Either way I will still offer a discount next time or send you a couple free frags on your next order. I am also going to treat the wild system right now and follow up with two more treatment to ensure the eggs have time to hatch and get killed as well. If I can help in any other way please let me know.

sounds like a good seller to me.Checking sit right now.