Please note that this one day event is occurring on a Saturday. It is possible to ship corals into the area with a UPS or Fed Ex saturday delivery. Vendors should note however that it has become just about impossible to insure live coral shipments with Federal Express or UPS. Alternatively air cargo could be utilized overnight into the Dallas Fort Worth airport. The Coral Farmers MarketSM company offers a Coral Express 2 day shipping service for getting corals from California to this Dallas Texas event. Coral Express uses the Coral Farmers MarketSM designed Coral Transport System. This shipping service places transported corals under light for both of the travelling nights. We tested the service in 2008 by transporting all the corals for 2 coral vendors. Not one coral was lost during the 5 day total journey time. Please contact the Coral Farmers MarketSM for the price and availability of this service. Coral vendors located within Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisianna will probably not need to transport their corals overnight. Currently one vendor has reserved this service for 2012 (Reeffarmers) and we have room for another 100 small fragments.

Transported 2008 DA-CFM corals after moving them from the Coral Transport System to their Coral Display System. The corals are then exposed to a night cycle photoperiod illuminated with a 250 watt DE metal halide lighting system.