Stressfull 24 hours

Out first shipments of livestock was sent out Monday from two different suppliers.
11 cases came from Quality Marine.  3 cases from Route 66.
Tuesday came around and the 11 cases from Quality Marine showed up, the 3 cases from Rt66 was stuck in Indianapolis.  Supposedly due to weather, but both shipments arrived from LA on the same plane at 2:20 AM, and the 11 cases left Indy at 6am.
So the three cases from Rt 66 had the rare expensive fish including the $1000 Lunardi Wrasse.  Of course there is no live stock guarantee when you are ordering from wholesalers, so the fish were mine, alive or dead.  And no recourse on Fed Ex as they were claiming weather.
I even offered to drive to Des Moines or Chicago to pick them up, but their only option was to ship as ordered.
I did explain the rarity of the fish, so they said they went & found the packages & put them in a heated area for me.  I was thankful for that.
Today the other three cases showed up.  Adam picked them up & slowly acclimated them using minimal light.
Luckily we only have had one death out of the three cases, a nice pygmy angel.
The rest of the fish look awesome, and we cannot tell that they spent an extra day in shipping.
I wont lie to you, I didnt get much sleep last night worrying about them.

 

Ya I will give them credit for that.

I am amazed at how everything came out.

The Lunardi wrasse was actually packed with sand for it to burrow in. It looks the best out of all of them, must of made a difference.

 

Right now it is in QT getting fattened up, waiting for a buyer.
In two weeks it will go out into the main system with the others.

 

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Here you go
Mine looks like this one, still buring itself in & out of the sand.
They only want $1400 for theirs.