Here today, gone tomorrow.

[reefarchitect]

Hello all,

I recently purchased several zoo frags from another reefkeeper. The frags were shipped to Florida on a relatively cold day from up north, but were floating in the sump within minutes of arriving at my door. It was overnight shipping, so time in transit was under one hour.

Next day I noticed a few of the smallest frags had melted away??

Now it's been a week or so and all but 2 small colonies are gone.

It seems all the single and 2-polyp frags have disintegrated. Granted, these small frags were tiny!

I have several other zoo/paly colonies, clams and dozens of SPS in the tank. Water params are pretty normal with alk at 9.6.

Any thoughts on why these zoos may have dissapeared?

Thanks,

 

[audio101]

Just sounds like stress killed them, were they shipped with a heat pack and was packaging good? Also the seller could of shipped freshly cut frags which would cause most of the stress. If they are packed right the survival rate seems to be really good even in winter.

 

[audio101]

By the way I've had the same thing happen to me also, but it was due to high heat during the summer. I was told by the seller to keep them in the tank anyways and they might end up coming around over time.

 

[reefarchitect]

He shipped them with a heat pack. They were glued to the plugs, but there was no growth over the glue. The frags might have been frash. The small colonies, are doing great. Maybe thats the answer, thanks.

 

[dark_stranger]

I have had zoa's in transit for 3days & arrived fine. As already stated, if they had just been frags, glued & shipped, they would have been vunerable to problems. Healthy zoa's will travel fine.

 

[jabis96]

damn sorry to hear that

 

[reefarchitect]

Resurrecting my pain. All of the zoas melted except for the 2 that had 5 or more polyps. All of the onesies and twosies did not make it.

Live and learn, I will never order corals online again!

 

[KJB547]

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