akareefkeeper
11/05/2005, 11:53 PM
I wanted to post my experience after all. At first I thought this was an isolated incided but spoke to others who had the same and worse stories to tell me. I'm rather angry after all that.
I picked up some sps frags from Garf a few days back. They arrived in a box that was way to big and nothing was used to keep the bags from moving inside. There was 2 sps plugs per bag rubber banded to a chunk styrofoam. Yes 2 per bag! They were smashed to pieces and there was no encrusting to hold them to the plugs, just about 2 tubes of glue per plug. Only 3 frags stayed on the plugs and were badly banged up too.
I called garf, they told me to keep them high in the tank and they would be o.k. When I saw they were getting whiter I got some pictures posted and helpfull advise from the people here. Now about 4 of those 7 corals are improving. 2 are definitly lost. I have a nice green apearing on one but all I pulled from the bags were shards and brown smashed corals. Pictures are posted in my gallery of the ones that remained in tact on the plugs.
After years of looking up to Garf and what they were doing, I will never ever recommend them again or buy anything from them. I can not believe they were so careless after all they preach.
The frags might have been nice when they left garf but whoever bagged them had no clue how to package them so they would get there in one piece! They never offered to replace my damaged corals...they just gave me poor advise that if I had followed, I'd be growing zoas on the remains.
I've had corals get trapped in the 9/11 lockdown for 3 days and 2 of the 6 bags actually surived because the person packaged them so well. Maybe I should look him up and send him to Idaho to visit garf.
I picked up some sps frags from Garf a few days back. They arrived in a box that was way to big and nothing was used to keep the bags from moving inside. There was 2 sps plugs per bag rubber banded to a chunk styrofoam. Yes 2 per bag! They were smashed to pieces and there was no encrusting to hold them to the plugs, just about 2 tubes of glue per plug. Only 3 frags stayed on the plugs and were badly banged up too.
I called garf, they told me to keep them high in the tank and they would be o.k. When I saw they were getting whiter I got some pictures posted and helpfull advise from the people here. Now about 4 of those 7 corals are improving. 2 are definitly lost. I have a nice green apearing on one but all I pulled from the bags were shards and brown smashed corals. Pictures are posted in my gallery of the ones that remained in tact on the plugs.
After years of looking up to Garf and what they were doing, I will never ever recommend them again or buy anything from them. I can not believe they were so careless after all they preach.
The frags might have been nice when they left garf but whoever bagged them had no clue how to package them so they would get there in one piece! They never offered to replace my damaged corals...they just gave me poor advise that if I had followed, I'd be growing zoas on the remains.
I've had corals get trapped in the 9/11 lockdown for 3 days and 2 of the 6 bags actually surived because the person packaged them so well. Maybe I should look him up and send him to Idaho to visit garf.