A Colombian, a coral shipment & what is a frag cave?

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[@erniewallace7687]

As always, and enjoyable day in the shop! Keep posting videos please!

[@jimgreen83]

Great video. How comes you don’t dip before putting into your main tank? Exciting to hear you are heading to the UK, AAC are brilliant.

[@austinremington8905]

Newer to the channel and the hobby of reefing. However best channel for newbie with all the info videos and all the variety you get exposed to. 10/10 keep up the great work!

[@oldschoolnewventure845]

very nice selection march

[@yammyboyz]

brother those thing were georgeous the next day holy moly.

[@pjmarkx]

Wait! I thought Alex moved to Columbia!!! Amazing to see him. Thanks March for bringing back old memories.

[@ilijazugaj4968]

I was in the store for the first time a few weeks ago with the whole family. I'm new to the hobby. I believe it was Matt that helped me out. He was awesome. I picked up a few zoa frags. When we left my hole family agreed that he looks like Mitch Marner. Lol

[@Alan-bj9vc]

March looks like Cepillin

[@fragboxcorals]

March respectfully disagrees :)

[@CliffordsReef]

would be crazy to see you on the reef bum podcast! hope all is well!!

[@fragboxcorals]

one day :D

[@Ichthys_Aquatics]

I have been keeping reef tanks for 23 years. Moved to keeping planted tanks about a year and a half ago

[@carlsmit9981]

What a way to start my saterday🎉🎉

[@Reefer_JAYY]

March is clearly practising his unbelievably good English accent ready for his visit... 😂 AMASSSSSSSING 😅

[@fragboxcorals]

Thanks! 😃

[@nickm9922]

Coralfish12g/George did a really cool special in Colombia some time ago. Apparently reefing hobby is illegal in colombia, so there is a thriving black market with hobbyists up there, was cool to see one of the big players their coralfarm 😊

[@Reefkeepers_Archive]

@Fragbox Corals hey March, one thing. That damage on the cynarina might be burrowing clams or gall crabs, keep a close eye on it. Also, most of those corals aren't easy to keep, you're just so good at it. Also need your help, i have a wild aussie favia colony that has ~10 heads, wasn't doing too good for the first week so I moved it to a higher flow spot, may have been too rough with it and I may have gotten a tiny bit of coral glue on it, do you think it will surrvive? Also used to have burrowing clams in it and I have had it for a week. Also when do you think it's an appropriate time to add lobos? My tank is 7 months old and for 6 of those months there was nothing in it, has a good pop population but there isn't much algae on the rocks yet, the parameters are stable.

[@kevincai4975]

I see you talk about hammer and torch touching each other, I also think it fine but i also notice that indo and aussie torch will have a hard time touching each other

[@fragboxcorals]

hmm interesting I never noticed

[@criticalreef1372]

Never managed to get to AAC... would be a perfect time to go 🤟

[@fragboxcorals]

come meet there !

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

A May SSSssssing!!

[@gauravyadav8937]

Do coral need temps acclimation if temps close to aquarium water?

[@StevenHaga-oc7uz]

are you going to texas this year in oct

[@Tomshifter002]

I spend my nights watching corals ... wish one day ill get my own tank

[@anamariabechara]

Life is too short. Go get your tank today! Even a pico tank will do, go get one!

[@nickm9922]

When covid hit i had same, watching youtube daily. Am allready a scubadiver and allways dreamed of a reeftank. First nano is thriving, now dreaming on my next dreamtank. Dont wish, just do! It doesnt have to be super expensive, but it aint a cheap hobby though. But its a hobby you keep learning from!

[@TheLiddojunior]

I keep both saltwater and freshwater. I prefer the freshwater but I would keep both instead of give one up

[@jamesg1460]

Well if I'm not working Sept 7th il make the many hour drive there :)

[@fragboxcorals]

come on over !

[@chphqchef8000]

Just had a customer come in and he taking down his salt and going fresh. For me I do both 4 fresh and two salt waiting to move to add two 4ft side by side

[@Poi3l3ment]

those were some sexy acans

[@needumachmaselber8189]

Can you talk about clams? Explain us, feeding or not feeding, please Greetings from germany 🇩🇪

[@cameronwyness8757]

Please make another clip with all the corals open. I'm dying to see the sexy corals opened up. From South Africa so abit far to buy from you.

[@fragboxcorals]

will do hommie

[@TheWheelchairStud]

Pearl coral? Haven't seen one of those for years

[@nickm9922]

Physogyra Liechtensteini, in case you want your LFS to order one 😊 The "normal" bubble coral is Plerogyra Sinuosa😊 LFS/distributors do sorta often name the pearly one as the normal bubbel though. Found myself a nice 8cm piece this way some years ago, felt like i was scamming the LFS as they misnamed it (and mispriced 😅)

[@TheWheelchairStud]

@@nickm9922 thanks!

[@davidforero6705]

Hi, is the complete aquarium you sell a reef casa studio 12 ?

[@fragboxcorals]

yes it is

[@reaper6977]

I started fresh went to salt fish only then fresh planted and large South American cichlids then now have 2 reef tanks one salt fish only and a African cichlids tank can’t help myself

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

Nice! I had fresh water many years ago, always wanted salt, but always being told I needed a big tank and it costs $$$$… I finally pulled the trigger last year with a studio 12g and after running for 8months now things are pretty stable and looking good, will be lps dominant, only have cuc and a yellow clown goby in it so it’s mostly all about the corals 🥰🍻

[@ronnoctheblock6525]

that boy WILLDD thinking a solid yellow lobo is 500 dollars, i hope when and if u do decide to change your "calculations" its not like that 💀💀

[@skyfoxxx8970]

Jealous! Wish I had all corals

[@Karim_Reef]

late night unboxing corals and fish , i do that job for free lol

[@fragboxcorals]

Im with you brother

[@RiggsDotMov]

Its because life came from the ocean so the things in fresh water tanks are far simpler than what you can have in a reef tank we create both ecosystems but the reef one has too many colors to not appeal to every human the saltwater is too advanced for a 9 year old so we get frogs , guppies etc then when were in highschool and college we get salt at least that's what happened to me

[@natalipierson98]

Unfortunately, i did fresh to salt to fresh 😅. Salt is too much work, money and time. After losing power and losing like $500 of corals and fish because the water cot lower than 20c for one night, i gave up. Got lots of algie and could not fix the problem. All my fresh survived Soooo yeah... that made the decision, haha.

[@fragboxcorals]

your watching and commenting on this video which means you will be back someday :)

[@justinrichardson5492]

You can’t buy from tidal gardens can you?

[@fragboxcorals]

March can buy from anywhere :D

[@lifebidesign]

So all these corals are wild and no quarantine?

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

They watch the corals in the store, if they quarantine all the corals that come in they would need a store 2-3 times the size and would need to increase prices accordingly 😉 as they are unboxing them they are also looking for things in the water or stuck to the corals that would indicate problem pests

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

Name of the video should be “March imports some Colombian Candy!” 😂😉🍻❤️

[@phuphu88]

have fresh and salt, but fresh is too easy = boring.

[@fragboxcorals]

Exactly !

[@Sammy31Dee]

You talk about your prices being super cheap but theyre basically on par with US prices ....well at least for wild stuff....that stuff is always gonna be cheap....comparing prices to US aqua culture facilities isnt really a fair comparison

[@Arie_Idaho_Reef]

Keep it cheap, this hobby has gotten too expensive in the last 7 years as it is 😊.

[@sovereignviper90]

Lol reefing in general is just fuck around and find out. Want to increase light intensity guess what you need to fu... around and find out lol

[@Botzz28]

Prices for corals are just out of control. Top Shelf aquatics for example is just ripping people off with their prices. It’s disgusting and very sad to see these vendors care more about money than the animals.

[@fragboxcorals]

Is it a rip off though if people keep buying them ?

[@Botzz28]

@@fragboxcorals unfortunately there are people that don’t know any better which is why they spend 2000$ on a one inch frag. TSA is absolutely taking advantage of everyone. It’s driving out so many people. There’s no reason why a coral needs to be 1000$ all because of a stupid nickname. I miss the old days of reefing. I went to Reefapalooza NY and spent literally 20 minutes and left that’s how bad it was. They are destroying the hobby.

[@oldschoolnewventure845]

When are you going to get your brother to open a store here in New York, you would kill them so your brother can stop cutting people open LOL, for those who don't know he's a surgeon

[@fragboxcorals]

He moved to Ohio !

[@oldschoolnewventure-lb4vk]

@@fragboxcorals damn hopefully he’s making more money anyway how do we finally meet we were supposed to meet at reef Appaloosa New York, but things have they’re way I’m in New York but I have no qualms traveling to meet you I’ve never been to Canada

[@ELT90]

Colombian frag black market has entered the chat.

[@ELT90]

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