Help me out please!

[bangoo]

Just recieved good size ricordea colony and the water in the bag it arrived smells really bad and its brown!! It smells like methane gas like....and pretty strong odor. Most of the ricordea looks ok but many look flaccid and loose. I called the guy who sold it to me and he said that the water smell is normal many times. I'm not too sure about this.....

 

[Stray32]

Smelly water usually means dying/rotting flesh, and it certainly isn't "normal" when shipping coral.

 

[stunreefer Verified Sponsor]

I agree that it's not necessarily normal, when stressed corallimorphs can produce a lot of slime (moreso than most other coral), however as Jared mentioned it generally means "death" in one form or another.

I would place the rics in a tupperware and do several water changes on the tupperware and see if they just fall apart or not. If they do, obviously don't put them in your tank.

 

[bangoo]

I agree that it's not necessarily normal, when stressed corallimorphs can produce a lot of slime (moreso than most other coral), however as Jared mentioned it generally means "death" in one form or another.

I would place the rics in a tupperware and do several water changes on the tupperware and see if they just fall apart or not. If they do, obviously don't put them in your tank.

I did do all that and it is currently in my tank. Few ricordea polyps look loose and just about to flow away. I sent the seller an e-mail just now. I really don't think its worth much as I paid for now.

 

[Murfman]

I just had rics do that to me in 2 days in a UA container. I threw them out. It was so bad that when I opened the jar, it stunk up the house.

 

[bangoo]

I just had rics do that to me in 2 days in a UA container. I threw them out. It was so bad that when I opened the jar, it stunk up the house.

Now I know what you mean. My whole house smell like fart gas. I did talked to the seller, and he'll replace for another colony if my rics don't look good by tommorow. I have them in a bucket with aeration, skimmer, and some water flow. By the look of them they don't look like they are going to make it. Thanks

 

[TopNotchCorals]

Where did you get them from?If I may ask

 

[Azurel]

Yea in all of the ric shipments I have not had them if healthy and quality water to start with do that. I have had them slime beyond normal corals but not turn the water brown and smell like that.....It sounds like it got hot and started to kill them off...I would in all honesty try and frag off ones that look good and healthy and move them away in to display tank from the rest of dying rics.....As long as you keep them all together most likely you will lose all of them as the others rot and pollute the water in the bucket they are in.......