sliming frogspawn

Beemo

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my order from vividaquariums came yesterday and ill never order from them again
first they sent me the wrong color ricordea mushroom, i ordered blue and its fushia purple, then my purple tipped frogspawn is not its a brown pink thing not green with purple tips like they said...but the frogspawn doesnt even look healthy. i noticed when i put it in the tank two of its four heads are kinda skimpy and there was this cotton ball looking thing on one of the skeletons, i figured ok its not that bad, well now this morning that cotton ball fuzzy thing as grown huge and is all over one of the unhealthy heads. its sliming and its gross, i hate when things look like this so im ready to just throw it out and buy a new one from a local store instead.
what is this slime fuzzy stuff? it almost looks like another life lol
this froggy is doomed isnt it?
oh and this company said id get a 10% first time buyers discount which i have not lol
 
First of do to the variation in lighting between your tank and a venders tanks color of corals can vary greatly when being purchased online. Also the stress of being shipped can alter colors as well when the coral expels some or all of it's zooxanthellea.

IMO, leave the frogspawn in the tank making sure that no other corals are making contact with it. Some or all of it may make a come back.
 
but what is that fuzz? its actually trailing long white threads from the cotton area
this isnt brown jelly disease is it? its not brown though its white - cream colored
ya know how spiders eggs look inclosed in a web? thats how it looks
 
Without a picture I don't know, It sounds like built up slime. If you increase the flow around the coral it would help remove that slime.
 
its localized to one head it seems. i just used a syringe to suck up the cottony growths after that i blew water on it from the syringe, the head just seems to be melting, the more i blew the more stuff came out and it just started to ooze
this head is def gonna die
i changed the carbon immedietly just in case this ooze is bad stuff
i dont know what to do now, i dont want to lose all my corals because of one frogspawn (that isnt the color i want anyway)
so when is it time to toss it? if it spreads to other heads?
 
How big is your tank?

I would leave it until you know the whole coral is dead. As for the color it's not uncommon for corals to brown out during shipping so it's true color may come back.
 
It's the problem with mail order corals. So hard to tell if they'll arrive ok. Hopefully it recovers.
 
it seems to be isolated to that one head i hope this means the others will be ok. the other 3 heads are open now with no signs of what the other one looks like, i can see the skeleton of that bad head and the polyps are def melting away
 
i took a picture just now, you can see its the second head from the left, the middle one with the string oozing from it, more than half its skeleton is exposed. do you think its just isolated to this one head? or does something like this usually spread and wipe out the entire frogspawn?
p.s please excuse the dirty glass i have not used the algae magnet all week lol
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Yes thats from stress, I've seen a brain do that just from putting my hand in the tank. Try a 30 second iodine dip or dip in a capful of reef solution in a glass and put him in there a minute or so. Frogs are pretty hardy so I doubt it will spread. It seems well isolated so try that put him back and wait it out.
 
is there anyway i can get away with just leaving it be? id hate to move it and have the other heads get stressed. so if i can avoid moving it that would be great
i have it so far from the other corals cause i heard they are aggressive, but in this state i doubt it can do much harm
im afraid to look tomorrow morning, i dread when things like this happen
 
Beemo, I would just leave it be personally. It's unlikely to be some rapidly spreading infectious disease, because you already have a good reason for this head being lost... namely, the stress of shipping (quite common, and you are lucky the others opened up). Dipping it in iodine is stressful on the rest of the heads, so I wouldn't do too much to it. Usually, they will recover and branch more over it; in rare cases, there's enough polyp left alive, just deeply buried in the skeleton, to recover that head.
 
well i just checked on it this morning and that head is pretty much gone, the other heads look fine and are open. i did notice when i first put it in the tank that that one head had some loss allready like a bit of the skeleton was allready exposed.
it just looks bad now like theres a bald spot, hopefully like you said the others will cover it up as they grow. no chance for it turning green huh lol....purple tip yea right its 100% purple sheesh. i wouldnt mind but i have way too many pink and purple peices in the tank allready....i need some green lol
 
i just came across a site that says frogspawn is a poor shipper, if this is true and it dies does a hammer coral ship better?
 
dont leave it alone, get a turkey baster and blow off the slime. it is a coating from stress. the coating will prevent it from getting the things it needs to recover, flow (nutrients) and light.
 
ok i just squirted it clean. all calcium bits came floating all over the place and were everywhere in the tank, i hope this is ok?
ill do a 10% water change later as it had to cause some pollution
ahh i should have just thrown it away, it would be ashame for my whole tank to crash because of one frogspawn
 
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i emailed the company yesterday and they said if it dies they will issue me store credit, not a refund which is bogus since i still would have to pay the 30 bux shipping
they also ensured me that yes this was bright green with purple tips when they shipped it and something must have happend in the mail, well either they are color blind or this frogspawn went down hill fast in less than 24 hours after shipping.
store credit or not i will not be a returning customer...
just a lil rant sorry but im P.O'd :)
 
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