Florida: $30 UPS Next Day Air livestock shipping. Qualifying Florida livestock orders under 6 lb ship UPS Next Day Air for a flat $30, plus the $10 Box & Handling Fee. Heavier or mixed shipments use our standard UPS Next Day Air rate, and qualifying livestock orders of $349 or more ship free either way. Livestock leaves here UPS Next Day Air on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so a Florida order placed over the weekend goes out at the start of the week rather than sitting in a facility.
We farm coral in Key West and ship it UPS Next Day Air to the rest of Florida. Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Naples, Fort Myers, Tampa, Orlando, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Tallahassee — your box leaves the Keys in the evening and is at your door the next morning, still in warm water.
Why buying coral inside Florida is different
A coral shipped from out of state has already had a long day before it reaches you. It has been bagged, driven to a hub, flown, sorted, and driven again. Every one of those hours is a temperature swing and a shrinking oxygen budget in a sealed bag.
Coral going from Key West to a Florida address does not leave the state. It is a shorter road for the animal, and the weather at both ends is the same weather — no coral bagged in the Keys is going to land in a Florida January the way it might in Chicago.
What you are actually buying
Every WYSIWYG listing on this site is the exact animal in the photograph. Not a sibling frag, not a representative shot, not stock artwork. We photograph each one under our own reef lighting, and when it sells the listing comes down, because there was only ever one of it.
Everything is grown and conditioned in our systems in Key West under Florida Aquaculture Certificate #AQ0254072. Some of it — gorgonians, Ricordea, live rock — comes out of Florida Keys water in the first place.
One box, one shipping charge
The $10 Box & Handling Fee is charged per box, not per coral, and UPS Next Day Air is one flat shipping charge per order. The $10 Box & Handling Fee covers the insulated box, heat or ice packs sized to the forecast at your address, and the time it takes to pack live animals safely. A box typically holds around five small frags, so a group of three or four usually travels for the same packing and shipping as a single frag would. Larger colonies, species that cannot share water, or extreme weather can require a second box.
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Come and see it, if you are ever down here
The showroom is at 2816 North Roosevelt Blvd in Key West, on the road everyone drives in on. You do not need to own a tank to walk in. And if you find something you want while you are on holiday, you do not have to carry it home — pick it in person and we will pack it and ship it to your door when you are back.
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