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Originally Posted by BigAl07  Well in fact it DOES ship well. I have gotten 2 different frags of it in the last 2 weeks. One was brought to me from a local reefer but it was bagged and in transit all day long. The other was shipped via USPS (2-3 day NOT over night) and it arrived in GREAT shape and is pulsing like crazy as I type this. meemoo shipped it and she suspended it in the bag upside down attached to a piece of Styrofoam so that it was always submerged in the water. It was pulsing IN the bag.
I think if you really took your time to package carefully chances are it could survive. |
I will say for a fact that xenia can be a very funky shipper. It's an odd coral in that it is extermely hardy, grows very quickly. But it can also die just as quickly. I have seen folks have three or four years of growth die overnight with everything else in there tank survive fine.
Same goes for shipping. As an LFS I never ordered the stuff from wholesalers because it would come in dead 50% of the time no matter which wholesaler or transhipper I used. But I never had issues with folks that brought it in locally. It just meant that sometimes I'd be out of it for months at a time and new customers would get pissed because I wouldn't order tham a peice of xenia that would probably come in dead and would cost them $40-$50 for a 3 inch piece....