frustrated

[chadfarmer]

i bought a 10 polyp frag of purple death from a guy on RC and they just started to melt away.(been in the tank for a week tommorrow) they never opened and i have another frag of them from stoneyscorals that look great. any idea what could have been the cause.
i have kept them under a rock ledge in my tank.

 

[Chelsey]

Might be worth mentioning that everything else in the tank is doing great, including a duncan, rainbow, sunset, and superman montis, nukes, red wines, and lots of other "rare" zoas (including 3 other PDs).

 

[jandlms]

Temperature problems during shipping? I just got done with a fragswap and all of mine melted because of temps getting too cold during shipping.

 

[Azurel]

I have had that problem countless times this past year.....Could never figure it out myself or pinpoint what the issue was. I switched salts and haven't had a problem since. Doubt that was the issue though.....

 

[reefboy]

sounds like shipping shock and now they have a bacterail infection if its not to late id be dipping in tmpcc or somthin to try to stop it very sry to here that im sure they werent cheap.

 

[chadfarmer]

they were 375.00.

i hate this, now we will see what the seller does


here they are now

 

[chadfarmer]

pics from the seller before he shipped them

 

[pookstreet]

Why would the seller take pix with the frag out of the tank? You can't tell if the polyps are healthy or not. Unless he's got something to hide

 

[Azurel]

I was thinking that same thing Pookstreet.....

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, shouldn't they be open?

 

[jonbar1]

They look healthy to me in his pics, I'd guess shipping shock as well. Did he have any pics of them in his tank?

 

[chadfarmer]

update everything has melted

 

[MarvinsReef]

update everything has melted

ouch... I have a good idea where they came from...

I've had couple of single polyp PD frags I shipped out last year that totally melted and never opened also... I'm replacing all of them, no biggie though..

I would guess shipping shock also.. was the water freezing cold when you got the package?

 

[Stixbaraca]

...red flags going up!!! Never buy frags based on pictures with closed, out of water frags!!!

 

[chadfarmer]

the water was a little cold

 

[Azurel]

For some reason I didn't realize that they were PDs....I keep thinking they were PPEs........One thing about the pictures is with these polyps I would never take a picture of them out of the water, cause they close and get real tight and 2 they start to slime beyond belief. They, I am sure were under some stress just being held out of water for who knows how long and then slapped into a bag for shipping. Not a very good way to start a sale......Have you contacted the seller again?

 

[chadfarmer]

waiting on chelsey to take a pic of the plug later today

than i will contact him but i have been keeping him up to date with pics of what is going on

so we will see how this goes

 

[Mr. Ugly]

They do look ok in the seller's pic, even though they're out of the water.

They don't take too well to fw dip though, no?

 

[Azurel]

That is one of the things I warn people about with Purple Deaths.....Do not FW dip them....Every one that I know of that has FW dipped them all have died. SW/w iodine is fine but a freshwater dip is a big no-no......

 

[chadfarmer]

I did not FW dip them, I've heard they don't do well being dipped like that. I usually do a SW dip with Lugols unless I am hesitant, then I do a FW dip + lugols.