Mirya Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 So this nice big package arrived today... Yup, I won the zoa pack from the recent live sale contest. Pics to follow as work allows... Link to comment
tibbsy07 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 I've been thinking of giving them a shot. Let's see what you won! Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Just got home from work. First some dinner... them some photo uploading! Link to comment
Cencalfishguy56 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Just got home from work. First some dinner... them some photo uploading! Reefing before food! Cmoooooonnnn man haha naw my paychecks go to food and reefing Link to comment
Addinali Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Just got home from work. First some dinner... them some photo uploading! Now jkjk Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Cmon how long does dinner take?!?! Let's see some Zoas! Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Tease I'm a red head. It's what we do. I thought I'd include some unboxing pics for those who perhaps haven't ordered from LC before to see the quality of the packing (not just the excellence of the zoas!). Link to comment
Lawnman Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 How's the saying go again? Red on the head Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 The box included my order from the live sale in addition to the zoa prize pack. Here is what made up the zoa prize pack: LC individually bags each morph, labels it, then seals it inside another bag. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 The box included my order from the live sale in addition to the zoa prize pack. Here is what made up the zoa prize pack: LC individually bags each morph, labels it, then seals it inside another bag. OPEN IT! OPEN IT! OPEN IT! I've never received coral in the mail... It feels like Christmas! Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Happy zoa all open while still in the bag: Outer bag cut open, popping out the inner bag. LC must have some cool heal sealer thing to package up the bags like this: Inner bags cut open. The stem of each zoa frag plug is pushed through the bottom of a mini condiment cup. This protects the polyps as the plug rolls around in the bag during shipping. I actually like this better than LC's old method of packaging. Their old method was super secure -- corals would never get injured during shipping. They essentially encased each frag in one of those plastic capsules like you would get toys out of from a quarter machine. They were just a &*(&^ to pop off the stem frag plug and I smashed a few zoas in the process. These condiment cups though were easy to remove, but still did an excellent job protecting the coral. Link to comment
Felicia Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Congrats! Can't wait to see how these look Haha! I posted this right as you posted more photos! Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Everyone went through a CoralRX dip, then into my frag tank they went. This is immediately after they had been dipped, then placed in the tank. I think all the zoas were thinking,"WTF" at this point. Everyone closed up while in the CoralRx dip, but some were brave enough to start to open soon after going into the frag tank. After I took this picture I went to work. And as you know, only got home an hour and a half ago. My tank lights had auto shut off right before I got home, so all the zoas had gone to bed as it were. However, I flicked the lights back on when I got home and took my time eating dinner so they would open back up for some better pictures. Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 So here is how they are looking tonight. (The pictures from earlier in the thread I took about 13 hours ago.) First under some more "daylight" conditions: Then cranking up the blues: Then adding in a filter to better display the fluorescence: If I kept everything straight as I unpacked things the zoas are Column 1 from top to bottom: Glitter bombs, Viscous Vixens Column 2 from top to bottom: White Velvet, Goldilocks, Apparitions (closed up polyps) Column 3 from top to bottom: Gold Maul, Golden Princess (closed up polyps), LC Hyper Phoenix I'm going to go pass out now. Tomorrow I should get home at a more reasonable hour (ie when the tank lights are still on). Everything should be more settled and I'll get better pictures. Link to comment
Red_Blenny Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Damn it, I wish I bought the Apparitions during the live sale. Link to comment
Nanofreak79 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Looking good! Free Zoas pack.....can't beat it Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Awesomeness! Can someone ident these zoas? Nobody seems to know, and they grow like weeds. Link to comment
ml86743 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Awesomeness! Can someone ident these zoas? Nobody seems to know, and they grow like weeds. Top pic looks like RPE's. Congrats on winning the zoas! Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Top pic looks like RPE's. Which is? Radioactive penguin eyes? Link to comment
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