Is it lost?

[pamelahaley]

I could kick myself for not asking for Rit's help before I did this but...

I bagged up all my softies, shrimp and remaining inverts, double and triple bags, stuffed them in a cooler with a heat pack, brown boxed the cooler then shipped it off to Denver. When my BF got the package the next day (after an issue with UPS not knocking on the **** door and taking the delivery back to the hub because nobody was there to sign... my bf went and stood at the distribution entrance to catch the driver on his way back)... when he got it open, the inside of the cooler was 30 DEGREES!!! I imagine it was that cold for at least 8 hours... the shrimp didn't make it but the 2 hermits did... looks like the feather duster didn't make it but, it had shed its feathers before from good stress... but the worm has left the tube. He acclimated everything and put it in the tank anyways and we shall wait and see. Mostly Zoas and paly, the leather, xenia and my beautiful hammer candy coral...

Do you think it's all doomed? :sad::Flush:

 

[brisco15]

omg !!im so sorry!

 

[coolsurf]

Wow...real sorry to hear about this. :sad: Hope you have some survivors.

 

[pamelahaley]

OH!!! My boyfriend just went to his office to check on the tank and sent me a pic... it looks like just about everything made it and most of it is open! What a relief to see the hammer right in the middle! Don't see the candy yet and he hasn't answered back...

 

[brisco15]

good luck

 

[pamelahaley]

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crappy cell phone pic... some coral isn't happy but, its open!

Guess you have to be on facebook for that, sorry. but I'm not kicking myself as hard as I was yesterday when he got the package. I know death is a possibility in shipping and I'm not experienced in the process but, 90% survival is pretty good.