So did the Sunny-D's ever open up? I would have thought those would have been one of the first to open up... I dipped a 50 head colony of Sunny-D's a couple nights ago for a fellow reefer and they opened up about 10 minutes after dipping and being placed in the tank..
I wish I had my camera with me.. this fellow reefer got about 30 frags from various people around here all in an evening and called me up on his way home to ask help with dipping them. He had never dipped corals before but just re-setup his tank from scratch after moving and wanted to do it right this time... and both of us were glad we dipped. Sooooo many bad guys in the corals.. first bucket with Revive there were hundreds of asterina stars, micro brittles, and stomatella snails. Nothing terrible in that bucket, just a ton of hitchhikers.. then we get to the rinse bucket where I vigorously swished the corals around before going in the tank... that bucket had hundreds of flatworms in it and even a few red bugs that were still alive and running around in the bucket. Revive doesn't kill red bugs, only Interceptor will, so that was why they were still alive. The swishing just knocked them off the corals, but an interceptor dip was needed to kill them. So.. always dip your corals (although like I said, I dipped all yours the night before they shipped and they went straight into bags, never going back into my tank to have a chance of bad guys getting back on them, but I really didn't see any bad guys come off the corals after dipping like I saw at my friends house and I don't believe I have them in my tank anyway).
And actually, the red planet and wild purple like to be down lower in the tank oddly enough.
Glad you got the corals before Christmas so you can enjoy them as well.. wish the slimer would have made it but believe me, your not missing much by not having it.. it is a cheap and common coral around here.. the others I sent you are much better IMO. I learned a couple more things in the shipping process as well so the next time I ship hopefully it will go better.
i even changed their position away from everything else near the back where theres not as much light or flow.. i did just put a wave back up on my tank again tonight though. even in my 14 *** they havent opened! i know theyre not dead but its lame when they dont open lol. zoas are weird like that. my one sunflower zoas(made the name up cause they look ezactly like sunflowers) took a month before opening up.
