Pacific East Aquaculture Dr. Photoshop !!!

I bought some stuff from this company and was so dissappointed with what came in. I just found this after the fact. I WILL NEVER buy from dr mac again.

Go to liveaquaria.com I think thats the site. I got crazy good corals from them.  

 

RBTA included in that order and it was happy as could be. Along with packing was awesome! it took my no joke i'd say 15min to unwrap everything!

I got an order from Dr. Mac as part of a group buy about a year ago. I got 2 acros and 1 porites. The acros never colored up and died. That pretty much ended any future mailorder livestock purchases I might have made. Not only to Dr. Mac but to anyone. 

I hope your acros come around for you.

Last Saturday I received the 6 SPS frags that I ordered from Pacific East Aquaculture. I ordered a tricolor tenius, a Gomezi Acro, Bright blue Mille and 3 Bali aquacultured frags. I also received 1 free frag. All of the blue frags are white with subtle tints of blue. The tenius looks ok although extremely small in size, and one of the other bali frags (millepora) looks ok. Also I was supposed to get a turquoise acro with red tips....nothing I got looks even remotely like this ! It has been a few days and still the frags look really white....nothing like the colorful frags on the vendor's site (or like the frags at MACNA!). 

 

I called the vendor who told me that the color loss is due to stress of shipping....but overnight from MD to MA? I have ordered frags from Oregon that did not fade to white, so I am not sure what the problem is here. I am hoping that the frags will color up in the future but this is my first experience with this vendor and I am not sure what to expect. I know Dr. Mac has a great reputation and that his colonies at MACNA were incredible (two of the reasons I ordered from him). 

 

Has anyone else ordered from Dr Mac? If so can you please post your experience, good or bad here ? 

 

Has anyone else received colorless white corals from anywhere else that colored up after the initial shock of transport and environment changes?

I have had no experiences with Dr. Mac. However, from what I hear, it's too bad that he moved from nearly all-tank raised to nearly all wild-collected. The phrase 'sold-out for the cash' comes to mind. Sorry if that seems harsh.

Hi all, I thought I should share my recent experience with Dr. Mac and pacific east. I got into a dispute about the delivery of a certain package, in which they forgot to give me a total the day before it arrived.Basically , I had ordered a package from last week and I had clearly stated that I was going to pay with a money order.The following day his secretary called my house and gave us a tracking number put no price. I was not home at the moment so my dad was unaware that I planned to pay with a money order. On the day of the delivery the package showed up but I had no total price. I tried paying the Fedex guy with , cash, check and credit card, but he said he could only take a money order. On monday, I received a call from them and they told me that they wanted their $107.00 for their DEAD coral. Dr mac told me that I was responsible for the package, even though I had No way to pay for it. I of course tried to explain to him that his secretary forgot to tell my dad the total price for the package. Dr. mac was very Rude and obnoctious , constantly telling me that what I was saying was bs. I did not expect someone as "NICE" as Dr. Mac to act or respond the way he did on this issue. So here we are now.

Its about time someone called this business out for their practises. The frags they advertise are just hacked up teeny tiny pieces. Chop shop all the way. Its a shame. 99% of the pieces are fresh cut and probably going to die. NO THANKS

I use to work for this family run business. It would amaze you what goes on there. They are all about stealing your money trust me. The son takes colonies that they buy for 15 dollars and chops them up into 50 pieces and then they sell them for 30 dollars each there. They lure people in with the online photos so you will drive to their shop. Its hours from anywhere. They expect that youll buy something if you drove even if its tiny and really not worth it. The tanks have numerous flatworm issues as well. The claim that they have collectors on islands is completely false as well. They buy from wholesalers just like everyone else does. The corals are pumped with super blue led so they look good when photographed, but it browns them out. So as soon as you put them under normal lighting they look like crap. This is just another out in the middle of nowhere shop trying to be a big league guy.

Guess I should have googled these clowns before placing an order. The crap they send me has me speechless. They're lack of customer support and lack of refund to me is the last time I'm going to deal with them. Id rather burn my money then do another order.

The frags there are so tiny and waaaay overpriced. Customer service is the worst. All his photos are shot under LEd's which gives fake colors. Dont trust this snake oil salesguy!