Bubble tip question...

[Ludwigia73]

I just received a dark green bubble tip with bright purple tips, it was subjected to a huge thrashing by FedEx (12 corals sent, 8 broken in multiple pieces, all but 2 dead inside of 6 hours of acclimating).

The anemone stuck his foot to the rock, then over the course of a day he went under the rock, and 36 hours later there he stays. He's open, not long extension on the tentacles but he's full (not deflated). He's mostly in the dark, only light he's getting is what's reflecting off the sandbed which isn't much at all. It wouldn't bother me if he stays there, but does anyone have a bbt anemone that likes the dark?

BTW, the guy that sold me the corals "tried out a new shipping idea" on me, and it failed, but fedex was the biggest culprit, but the guy refunded the vast majority of the money to me. I wanna say I'm happy with how he handled it, but not happy with the shipment, as this was my first time and a bad taste was left behind. I think he's a stand up guy and took care of me in the end.......

 

[Chrisq0904]

When I had my RBTA it would be in a shaded spot until about 1-2hrs of lights being on and would extend out until the lights turned off. If yours is doing that it should be fine, it could also be recovering from the stress of shipment. I'm sure you already know this but make sure the foot is not torn in any way. Is the mouth tight or is it expelling any of its internals? I would also not feed it for about a week depending on how bad it looks so it can use its energy on recovery instead of digesting.

 

[rovster]

I would give it time. Mine did that in the beginning and if you research it's pretty common. You can't really coax them, they're going to do what they want and settle where they want. As long as it looks healthy, no damage to foot, mouth not gaping I wouldn't worry just yet. Glad you got everything worked out in shipping. I've recieved 5 shipments of livestock to date and all my experiences have been positive. When it's done right there's little to worry about.

 

[I take Cars]

Mine is slowly coming out from under my rock... its been about a month. He looks great now.

 

[Ludwigia73]

Nice, thanks... that's what I needed, a warm fuzzy feeling. The foot is in good shape and the mouth is tight. He also responded favorably to a small shot of mysid and brine shrimp into his tentacles, so he should be ok.

 

[Lacy]

What was this new shipping method?

 

[Ludwigia73]

A large disk of styrofoam with a hole in it, the frag plug inserted into the styrofoam... Not enough water in the cups, the styrofoam couldn't flip upside down, it was obvious that not only did the frag end up upside down and exposed to the air for lengthy periods of time, but they got beat to crap as well.

 

[Lacy]

That's not a good way to do it. Anyone worth any salt should know that you put the frag upside down attached to the styro. We did this all the time with candy canes, hammers or any other meaty corals. Didn't do it with zoas, acros and the like. Did he ship the anemone like this? All that is needed is a container with water. Doesn't even need to be much water.

 

[Ludwigia73]

Anemone was just in water, no plug or styrofoam... All the acros were upside down with the plug through the styrofoam, but the styrofoam was able to flip upside down, get stuck like that, and the frags were sticking up into the air. Most of them broke at this point, I think. 2 acros out of the 9 have a little left on them, hoping they come around.

 

[billsreef]

The styro trick works fine, if there is plenty of water in the bag and the frag is sufficiently heavy in relation to the size of the styro to stay frag side down into the water. Sounds like he missed both those points. As to being a new method (at least when done the way I described), I was shipping frags that way over 10 years ago

 

[Lacy]

Maybe his new method is shipping frags out of the water. :lolspin: