Late January '09 - Check out our new Australian Corals List, even though you can't buy them unless you happen to have thousands of dollars in your coral budget! As with all of our lists, you can get an idea of what is coming in from where ... these are extremly expensive corals that you have to buy over twenty of at a time, so please don't ask for one Ultra-grade lordhowensis. (We thought you'd be interested in seeing the list anyway.) Happy New Year! Check out our Bali Purple Popcorn live rock, which is spectacular, cured and available in any quantity shipped to your door. We have a Four-pack and Six-pack (pieces) Special. Holiday Season Shipping Notice Please note that prior to Thanksgiving until after the New Year, there are often irregularities in normal shipping schedules.   So, please be patient if you should happen to experience any delays.   Also, CITES permits from Indonesia have been scarce as snow in the tropics! So, Indonesia coral and Bali live rock supplies have been affected and are seemingly on a week, off a week, or roughly thereabouts ... please plan ahead! Wishing You a Happy Holiday Season! 11/10/08 Check out our new NANO ROCKS ... cured Bali Purple Popcorn Balls ... you won't believe how they look! If you want to give your tank a "biological boost" or innoculate it with coralline ... this is the stuff! 11/5/08 - Now available ... Dry Limestone Base Rock

News Archive: 10/27/08 - *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT* There is one last, small shipment of FIJI live rock that will clear Customs shortly. It was sent in a refrigerated (cool) container on a high-speed boat.   It will not look like the gray cement that has been going around. It may be the last chance to get any FIJI live rock. Please see our Ordering Live Rock Page for more details. 10/27/08 - We have a new article on our site for our coral customers ... Acclimating Corals 10/14/08 - There is no more Fiji live rock for now ... we hear that there is some Fiji boat rock on the way. The Bali, Vanuatu, and Irian Jaya are all five-star, quality live rock. These are all hand-collected and air-freighted. 10/1/08 - Recent articles have been added to our Interesting Environmental News Articles page. 9/15/08 - We have a new article featuring Aquascape ideas. 9/15/08 - An acceptable, commercial grade of Fiji live rock is now available. It's nothing fancy, just plain Fiji! We also have some very purple live rock and some interesting live rocks from Bali ... the Blue Ridge (Heliopora) is great! See Live Rock Photos and Pricing for more information. 8/5/08 - Our Indonesia corals are now available for shipping most any day of the week directly from the tanks to you. Please see our Corals Information page for details. 8/1/08 - Tonga live rock is no longer being collected, so we no longer have it for sale. However, Tonga corals are still available. We are now offering a selection of live rock from Bali ... please see our Live Rock Photos and Pricing for more information. 7/29/08 - There was a Tonga live rock shipment on July 27 and 29 ... there may be a final shipment on August 3rd, as Tonga is closing for live rock. Corals will still be available. 7/23/08 - Update on Tonga live rock ... we have been told that the last shipment from Tonga to LAX will be arriving on Sunday, July 27th ... orders must be placed immediately. 7/10/08 - Regarding Tonga live rock ... there is a very real threat of Tonga closing for live rock August 4th. People are there negotiating with the Fisheries Dept., hoping for a slow phase-out, but there's no way to tell what Tonga is going to do until they do it. Word has it that these closures all stem from an abusive collection incident by a couple of the collectors (not ours). So, it could just as easily be open on August 4, as closed. If you were thinking about getting some in the next couple of months, our advice is to order now just in case. Also, the last shipment will probably be sold out far in advance. It is unprecedented for Tonga to already be in discussions regarding permanent closure, after closing down earlier this year and recently re-opening. For information about our Tonga live rock ... Live Rock Photos and Pricing. 6/19/08 - Recent articles have been added to our Interesting Environmental News Articles page. 6/3/08 - We're having a Live Rock Sump Sale! Just a few assorted individual pieces of fully cured live rock. First-come, first-served ... See Our Sump Sale! 5/21/08 - Tonga has been re-opened for business and is once again permitted to ship live rock and corals. Orders for Tonga live rock or corals can now be accepted! 5/14/08 - For those of you looking for individual pieces or frags of acropora ... send us an e-mail and we'll forward your request to a friend who is fragging our Sulawesi, Surabaya, and Fiji acros. Our E-mail: birdfish @ livestockusa.org 4/28/08 - We received word today that Tonga has closed for shipments of all CITES items, which means corals and live rock. This happened with Fiji a few years ago, and it was about a year before it re-opened, so, we can hope that Tonga will re-open. Tonga is closed for now. Although there were some species of corals that are only available from Tonga; for acroporas, Fiji is great and at least as good, if not better. For live rock, Vanuatu and the new Noname are your two best alternatives for fresh, air-freighted live rock.   Both are more expensive than Tonga, but the shapes, color and quality are fantastic. Our Tonga Corals List has been updated, which includes some new items. 3/7/08 - There have been some meetings with the powers that be in Tonga and the word is that live rock collection is going to be shut down.   They say it's going to be a graduated, scaling-back of amounts until it's zero. Initially, word has it that this may take a year. However, there have been instances before where places were going to shut in a year and they closed in a week or a month. There will be no way to tell, except that there will likely be no advance warning. Our current understanding is that this will not affect the corals or fish, this is only about the live rock. 2/4/08 - Live Rock News ... and it's big. First, for Fiji.   There is no more air-freighted Fiji live rock.   What was well-known as our Super Ultra-premium, is no longer. That is why we are not currently offering any Fiji live rock.   If you want live rock that has been out of the water less than a couple of weeks, you must get it from another island. Now for Tonga.   There was an emergency meeting of the Fisheries Dept. last week.   It appears that there are going to be some serious changes in the industry there that we probably won't all consider good and positive news. The good news for the meanwhile is, by special arrangement you can order a 60-pound box of mixed types of Tonga live rock.   That is, some Vava'u, some Eva, some Uaniva, some Fusion, all assorted in one box. This new mixed box has not been added to our website yet, so if you wish to place an order for it, just use a "single box" Tonga live rock payment button on the Live Rock Ordering Page, and we will refund the difference to you.   Please note, it will cost slightly more per pound than the full boxes (75 lbs.) of one type. Just send us an e-mail telling us that you are ordering the "Mixed Box." 1/28/08 - Fiji Super Ultra-premium live rock is currently on hold and unavailable. 1/15/08 - We now have Bali cultured SPS available in box-lots of your choice of 15 pieces.   This is one of the few places where you can order acropora by species.   Please see our Acropora Sale Page for more information.   Or, you may view the Bali List for the list of available species. Some new articles have been added to our Environmental Articles Page. Soon to come ... some fantastic zooanthids and polyps and some amazing aquacultured coral rocks from the Indo-Pacific. 1/4/08 - Our Very Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! Watch for news soon about some things we will be offering that will be new and different. 12/20/07 - Wishing you and yours happy holidays! Other news ... our Fiji Ultra-premium is now being packed in 50-pound boxes with a two box minimum. 11/15/07 - Our Fiji Ultra-premium live rock is on sale for a limited time ... please refer to our Live Rock Photos and Pricing  page for details. 10/16/07 - Current environmental articles have been added to our Environmental Articles Page. 9/18/07 - Our Curing Live Rock page has been updated, with a couple of customer photos added and some text revisions. 9/12/07 - Tonga Fusion live rock now available ... you may view a few photos here: Tonga Fusion Live Rock 9/3/07 - A new article has been added to our collection. Fish Stamps   is a primer on tropical fish and other marine life featured on postage stamps from around the world. 8/26/07 - A note regarding Tonga live rock ... There has recently been an increase in the freight costs from Air New Zealand of 40-cents per kilo (20-cents per pound). For right now, we are absorbing half of that increase in order to give those of you who have been thinking about getting some a chance to buy it now before it goes up the rest of the way. Marshall Islands live rock is currently unavailable, as the permit has been cancelled (temporarily?) Also, Tonga is not packing the 50-pound boxes they said they could. (Only Fiji and Vanuatu have 50-pound boxes.) 8/15/07 - Coming soon ... some of the most amazing fish stamps you ever saw! 8/15/07 - Please note we are currently experiencing difficulty obtaining Marshall Islands live rock due to lack of freight space and flight availability ... this should smooth out after the tourist and tuna season (in September). We recommend that you inquire before ordering Marshall Islands live rock. 8/7/07 - A new page has been added to our Cultural Information Page ... a link to an interesting story about when telephones were first introduced to some of the South Pacific islands ... "Telephones Are Installed" gives a unique insight to the relationship between the inventions of the modern world and the villagers of the islands. A delightful short story! 8/7/07 - Our Fiji Ultra-premium live rock is on sale! Please refer to our  Live Rock Photos and Pricing  page for details. 7/19/07 - Update on the availability of the fifty pound boxes of Tonga live rock. They ARE now available ... the only catch is that they are packed as "The Catch of the Day" ...in other words, the smaller boxes are packed with an assortment of pieces, which can either be Eva or Uaniva (also known as Kaelini). Since there is no way to know which type is available on any given day, the fifty pound boxes do not have a "type" option, but the boxes have a nice selection of pieces. See our Ordering Information page or our Live Rock Photos and Pricing page for more details. 7/7/07 - Regarding the availability of 50-lb. boxes of Tonga live rock ... Well, they said they could do it, but they couldn't. We thought that Tonga really could pack a box to a predetermined weight of fifty pounds ... but NOOOO ... it didn't work. So, we're going to work something out so we can ship a reduced-weight box from L.A. ... please inquire before ordering the 50-lb. boxes. 6/28/07 - New information regarding Acropora availability and offerings can be found on our Summer Acropora Sale page. Also, our Corals Information page has been revised, with a second Tonga list added. Plus, we now have a list of corals available from Fiji. 6/26/07 - We have finally got Tonga to pack a fifty-pound box of live rock!   So, now our customers have a lot more options and flexibility in ordering. This is now available on our Live Rock Photos and Pricing page. 6/20/07 - A second source of Tonga corals has been added ... this list shows the new Tonga availabilities. More information regarding this new program will be added to the website shortly, but for now, here's the list of corals.   Please note that this page is not linked anywhere else within the website as of this date. And, the "Tonga-2" printable list is here. 6/20/07 - New articles have been added to our library ... Temperatures, Salinity, and Hyper-salinity. 6/5/07 - Selection of current environmental articles have been added to our Environmental Articles Page. 6/5/07 - A new contribution of Vanuatu live rock photos by Phil S. of Wheaton, IL (his 8-week photos) shown on our Vanuatu Gallery.  Phil also has a featured photo on our Vanuatu Live Rock Page and on our Customer Comments Page. 6/5/07 - Additional comments and customer photos have been added to our Customer Comments Page, (Tonga and Fiji Branch live rock). 6/5/07 - New page entitled "Current Updates" has been added to our site!

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