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CollegeReefer · 05-10-2007, 01:16 PM

My Garf grunge from garf.org came today.

I will first like to say that to order from garf is a big pain. They ask you to leave a message with your credit card info and what you want on there “secure” phone line. I personally believe that this is not the best way to run a business that takes orders online. On the site it tells you only how much the clean up crews are and how much the garf grunge is. They don’t tell you the cost of shipping or the cost of their coral frags. I had emailed garf to get more information on their grunge and it took about a week to get an email back from them. However when I did get an email from Leroy, owner and operator of garf, he give me his cell number. Once I got this number I had no troubles getting a hold of him. I ended up ordering 5 pounds of garf grunge and also paid for a membership (I believe in what garf was and still is trying to do for the hobby), which came with an additional 3 pounds of grunge. I did not get any email of when it was shipped even though I was told it would ship Monday.

I was surprised to see that the garf grunge arrived today in a USPS priority mail flat rate box, which would explain why I didn’t get a tacking number. When I opened the box, there were two bags of the grunge. I was surprised to see that the grunge was not in a insulated box. The grunge however did look exactly what I expected, a mixture of different size substrate, shells, and other things found at the bottom of a tank. The bags containing the grunge had not water in it which concerns me a little bit, but hopefully the moister that that was in the grunge itself would have kept everything alive. When I opened the bags, I really didn’t see much movement, but that really doesn’t mean much for the organisms could have been in the middle of the bag. This grunge did have lots of different types of coralline algae in it, which is what the people at garf pride itself on. I wish I could give you all more information on the grunge, but this is all I really have. I have attached a few pictures of the grunge itself and the tank after adding it. Once my tank clears up I will add some new pictures.

Bags of Garf Grunge

Inside bags of Garf Grunge

After adding Garf Grunge to tank

Added some to refugium as well

05-10-2007, 01:16 PM	#7
CollegeReefer Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Stevens Pont, Wisconsin Age: 22 Posts: 375 User Feedback: (0)	My Garf grunge from garf.org came today. I will first like to say that to order from garf is a big pain. They ask you to leave a message with your credit card info and what you want on there “secure” phone line. I personally believe that this is not the best way to run a business that takes orders online. On the site it tells you only how much the clean up crews are and how much the garf grunge is. They don’t tell you the cost of shipping or the cost of their coral frags. I had emailed garf to get more information on their grunge and it took about a week to get an email back from them. However when I did get an email from Leroy, owner and operator of garf, he give me his cell number. Once I got this number I had no troubles getting a hold of him. I ended up ordering 5 pounds of garf grunge and also paid for a membership (I believe in what garf was and still is trying to do for the hobby), which came with an additional 3 pounds of grunge. I did not get any email of when it was shipped even though I was told it would ship Monday. I was surprised to see that the garf grunge arrived today in a USPS priority mail flat rate box, which would explain why I didn’t get a tacking number. When I opened the box, there were two bags of the grunge. I was surprised to see that the grunge was not in a insulated box. The grunge however did look exactly what I expected, a mixture of different size substrate, shells, and other things found at the bottom of a tank. The bags containing the grunge had not water in it which concerns me a little bit, but hopefully the moister that that was in the grunge itself would have kept everything alive. When I opened the bags, I really didn’t see much movement, but that really doesn’t mean much for the organisms could have been in the middle of the bag. This grunge did have lots of different types of coralline algae in it, which is what the people at garf pride itself on. I wish I could give you all more information on the grunge, but this is all I really have. I have attached a few pictures of the grunge itself and the tank after adding it. Once my tank clears up I will add some new pictures. Bags of Garf Grunge Inside bags of Garf Grunge After adding Garf Grunge to tank Added some to refugium as well __________________ CollegeReefer Last edited by CollegeReefer; 05-10-2007 at 01:19 PM.