nope, it was mail order...Like I said, the rock and sand had been cycling about 4 weeks and the water was a little over two weeks. This topic has alot of debate between people on whether it works or not...I think it does...I would not relay on this method as a normal thing to add to the tank (no scientific proof that is helps corals), but as for helping to start the cycle I think it speeds up the process. Everything in my tank is doing very well....all my levels are zero. Another piont to how well my tank is doing, one of my LPS frags I got from you (Joel aka Waves), got stung by my hammer and the tissue is already starting to cover the dead spots and is looking heathly and almost recovered, that is in two days time.
However I am getting the [language filter] brown dino crap on my rock and sand bed...but my levels are good and everything is heathly.