SPS help!!!!

I posted this in my tank thread but thought I might get help here faster.

I received a shipment today and the bag holding this stylophora was busted and two-thirds of the water had dumped out. Most of the coral was not in water.

I placed the coral in by tank about 8 hrs ago and it was brown. Now it is turning almost white. Looks like the brown areas are shedding off the coral. I've never ordered coral online before so I'm not sure what to do. The other SPS coral I've purchased at my local lfs hasn't acted like this. See the photo below.

 

How long was it in shipping? I would assume it was like that for a good portion of the shipping. I would contact the place you brought it from and see if maybe they can do something about it.

 

Shipping was over night. About 20hrs or so. I don't know when the bag busted. The box was soaked and the fedex guy logged it as damaged.

 

Stylophora polyps retract way back into the skeleton.

Make sure your parameters are in line, which you probably already have and just let it acclimate over night, if STN is spreading in the am frag off the good pieces.

Let the vendor know if the coral complete looses it tissue. Having an image such as the one above will help.

 

I would keep an eye on it and if you see any dead tissue, you can use airline tubing to siphon off the dead/necrotic tissue and giving the coral a bath with an Iodine solution like TM Pro Coral Cure or similar product is likely the best way to treat the problem as the iodine will act as an antiseptic and hopefully kill prevent the spread of the tissue necrosis.

 

Thanks for all the advice. I think the coral is lost. I'm going to give it another couple of days but it is almost 95% white and very little tissue left.

 

Unfortunately then I agree the coral was probably too stressed from shipping and exposure to air.

The vendor should make it right with the images you provided.

That has got to be disappointing.


:-/