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At Next Wave, our annual one-day conference, we fly in speakers and peruse the vendor's wares for stuff to bring home. I held out until the end, but after selling an item from my Reef Shop, I had cash to burn.

So I raced into the vendor's room to see what was left, and bought a bunch of goodies. Two of the vendors had a disaster; the airlines didn't ship the livestock on their flights, so they arrived and had nothing. Everything arrived around 1pm during our conference after sitting on the tarmac since the day before. I felt badly for them and tried to buy a few pieces as I felt they had a better chance of living in a local tank than to risk shipping them back to Colorado.

Then we took the speakers out to dinner, so I left my livestock with the desk manager at the hotel to keep them warm instead of letting them chill in my car. After dinner, we ended up going to a sports bar for a few more hours. I ended up getting home with all my corals around 3:30 a.m. and acclimated them to my quarantine tank. They were in their little containers for a long time, too long actually considering what happened with the trip from Co to Tx.









I lost an acan immediately and didn't bother putting it in the tank to avoid polluting the water. One clam didn't make it, while the others did. And the light blue SPS looks like it is RTNing unfortunately. I'll be adding all of these corals to my reef later this week.