Dovey
Arachnobaron
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2016
- Messages
- 537
Just received an order of three Cambarellus crayfish and three really exceptional blue mystery snails from Aquatic Arts, which I cannot recommend highly enough! David and Crystal seem to be lovely people, and their staff is marvelous. They sent me an extra snail, which was splendid of them, along with going above and beyond and sending me two females and a male of the crayfish, as I requested.
All seem to be settling in very nicely, though I'd like to point out that, yet again, I received a box that was clearly stamped LIVE FISH between 7:45 and 8 p.m., which means UPS either had them sitting around on the dock or on the back of a hot truck all day.
Why they don't just suck it up and send live animals out with the first round, I will never understand. It's like UPS is determined to punish you for shipping live animals or something. It's uncanny! At least this time, it wasn't a hundred degrees. Last summer they manage to cook an entire box of viciously expensive koi. I'll never ship live animals in that kind of heat again, I don't care what the shipper says; and I'll never willingly select UPS for live animals. They're just too lackadaisical about delays and hot trucks! It's go FedEx or stay home in this household.
At last, though! Creatures that will benefit from our rock hard water! Don't know if they'll appreciate our stratospheric pH, but there you go, part and parcel.
I'm so excited to have crayfish back in my life. They are such fetching little animals. I bred clarkii for the longest time. My problem there, however, was I could hardly look at one without somehow thinking I smelled Old Bay spice.... Om nom nom! My fire engine red and cobalt blue clarkii would have been one expensive crawdad supper!
All seem to be settling in very nicely, though I'd like to point out that, yet again, I received a box that was clearly stamped LIVE FISH between 7:45 and 8 p.m., which means UPS either had them sitting around on the dock or on the back of a hot truck all day.
Why they don't just suck it up and send live animals out with the first round, I will never understand. It's like UPS is determined to punish you for shipping live animals or something. It's uncanny! At least this time, it wasn't a hundred degrees. Last summer they manage to cook an entire box of viciously expensive koi. I'll never ship live animals in that kind of heat again, I don't care what the shipper says; and I'll never willingly select UPS for live animals. They're just too lackadaisical about delays and hot trucks! It's go FedEx or stay home in this household.
At last, though! Creatures that will benefit from our rock hard water! Don't know if they'll appreciate our stratospheric pH, but there you go, part and parcel.
I'm so excited to have crayfish back in my life. They are such fetching little animals. I bred clarkii for the longest time. My problem there, however, was I could hardly look at one without somehow thinking I smelled Old Bay spice.... Om nom nom! My fire engine red and cobalt blue clarkii would have been one expensive crawdad supper!
