Zoos Bleaching?

[jayare]

Hello all,
I've sold several frags of my RPEs and one person is saying that their frag won't open. It's been about 1.5 weeks since they've had the frag and it looks pretty bad. Here's a pic:

It looks bleached to me. What could have caused this? What's odd, is this person actually met me in person to get the zoos. I sent frags that took 4 days in transit and did great, so what could have caused the frag to do so poorly? Is there any hope for it to come back? Here's a pic of what it looked like before:

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[audio101]

It obviously has to do with their water quality, I've never seen zoa's bleach that fast. Tell him/her to do a water check.

 

[jayare]

Thats what I thought but this person has zoos right next to it in the picture that are open.

 

[DetectiveTofu]

maybe by some longshot, the lighting in the tank was too much for the frag to handle all at once. It can be worthwhile to slowly acclimate your zoas to more powerful lighting over the course of a month or so. The zoas in the picture may have been there for a while, and have had sufficient time to adapt.

If this isn't the case, I am of the thinking that...
1. Something may be off with the water parameters
2. They were SEVERELY mishandled (doubt it, but figure I'd throw it out there)
3. Cruddy things like this happen sometimes, maybe just rotten luck.

 

[jayare]

Thanks for the ideas. I think it was just a case of bad luck after talking with the individual. We are working out the details to get him a new frag. Thanks for the replies.

Jesse

 

[audio101]

Just tell him to sell them as white zoa's like people on here do. ; )