GARF coral?

[Kung]

Geothermal Aqua-culture Research Foundation, or some such, offers soft corals. They are usually 5 for one hundred bucks, you get some choice. Has anyone done business with them? I am looking to jump start the reef a little bit. It seems like a good deal, even if they are small. Any feedback would rule.

[gregoryalln]

i will be getting some stuff thursday, i'll let you know

[Irisservice]

A++++++
Thats were i got 90% of my corals from....

[gregoryalln]

they have a special today, 10 coral'sfor 100 buck's

[Kung]

So, is than an endorsement? :D

Thanks for the virtually instant feedback.

[gregoryalln]

if a mod says it's good, and they have a special on coral's then i would do it

[Kung]

They ALWAYS have that special. I have been all over that site, for months, and it is always there. I thought of trying their home-made live rock thing, too. I just bought lace rock to build up my reef, and moved my older, actual live rock, to the top of the reef. That works, too.

[gregoryalln]

I got my garf shipment of stuff in today, i got the grunge, grunge lite, and the sand booster. i pretty much felt robbed, out of 20lbs of grunge stuff i couldnt fine one single pod, not one single worm, the only single thing i found that was alive was part of a micro star. believe me i searched good. they claim there stuff is loaded with critter's :roll: i was highly disapointed. the grunge lite/ live sand booster is just sludge, the grenge, and grunge plus looks like aquarium gravel. it hardly had any coraline algae. at 5 buck's a pound you expect to at least get 1 bristle worm, or a few pod's. I hate to see the coral's they are selling. with tampa bay live sand you can at least see the pod's,bristle worm's and starfish. GARF SUCKS!!!!!!!

[hounddog]

I have purchased clean up crews from Garf. I have been very satasified with what I recieved. I got 2 free corals with each order. My first order I got a star polip and a zoo. They were both wonderful frags about 2 inches with 2 different types of corals on each. My second clean up I could not wait to see the corals. Well I was very disapointed. I called back and spoke to Norm. He indicated the owners were putting things togeter durring the xmas rush and sometimes do not send the best stuff for the freebies. He put me down for 2 free ones with my next order. I am not sure what to say at this point. If the corals you get are like my 1st ones you will love them. If there like my second ones will you could be disapointed. I will say one thing about my second corals. I have re attached them to other rocks and they are growing and doing nicely. I have recently found a guy in Indianapolis that I will visit in 2 weeks. His stuff looks Great on the net. If he has nice stuff I will post his link.

[salty dragon]

Geothermal Aqua-culture Research Foundation, or some such.com or .net? Do you have a web-site for these folks?

[gregoryalln]

www.garf.org but i do not recommend them what so ever

[salty dragon]

Got it I didn't catch the anacronym. Thanks

[Travis]

I would give them like a B-. My frags were small, some came unhealthy but the ones that were healthy are doing great. Here are a couple then and nows of my favorite two...

[Travis]

2....

[hounddog]

I went to Coral Sand Bar (http://www.coralsandbar.com/). On Sunday. I purchased the 5 for $75.00. I recieved 3 large Zoo frags about the size of a silver dollar and looking very good. The colors are great and 2 of them have 2 types growing on it. So I got 5 colors on 3 frags. Blue, green & orange, peach/pink and blue, and the largest frag about the size of 2 silver dollars is neon green centers with a blue ring. That one is the coolest. I also got 2 ricordia polips orange and green and orange and blue with neon green centers. each polip has 3 centers and that counted as 1. Usualy each center is 1. I feel I got a great deal. He has a small opperation but will go there next time I am in Indianapolis. If anyone else has ordered from him let me know what you think. I stoped by and hand picked mine but I still think if you order you will get nice stuff.

[salty dragon]

Thanks Travis for the heads up on GARF. if I place an order I will make it a small one to start. Nice extension on the little fellas though! and Houndog I think I will try an order on some orange ricordias from The Coral Sand Bar.

[hounddog]

Get the orange and green with the neon centers. They are the coolest under the actinic and moon lights.

[gregoryalln]

i still feel ripped, after serveral e-mails i gave up. i spent over 100 on mud, and sand that contained nothing. could have gone to the beach and gotten better stuff

[hounddog]

Gregoryalln,

Why don't you call them. I was not happy about needing to place another order to get my corals but since they were free I guess I can not complain. My buddy is going to need a cleanup crew soon and I am going to have them put it with his order. I think you should be able to work something out. I spoke to Norm who was very helpful and more than accomidating.

Sometimes phone works better than e-mail.

[gregoryalln]

i did call, but he keeps saying wait and the pods/starfish will appear with in 3 weeks, will it's been 5 weeks and not a single pod. guy tried feeding me a line also. they have a hack operation if you ask me

[hounddog]

Im not disagreing with you since my last order was not what I expected. I am hopeful that was just a mistake close to the hollidays. From what I have read lately I am beginning to think it may not be. I am going to let my buddy order his cleanup crew from them and we will see what they send us. If it is not like my first order then I will not purchase again. I am very happy with the Coralsandbar that I posted eariler. Everything looks great. But you cant beat hand picking your frags!!

[gregoryalln]

i would just my clean up crew from reeftopia, they are alot cheaper and sell some really cool zo's.

[coralsandbar]

Hi Houndog,

Glad to oblige..... Visit anytime....weekends are always best for me.

Glad to hear all your corals are doing well.

thank you,

Rob

[coralsandbar]

Hi Houndog,

Glad to oblige..... Visit anytime....weekends are always best for me.

Glad to hear all your corals are doing well.

thank you,

Rob

[visoredge]

Coralsandbar.com also has a new website!
Pretty cool...