Hi,
A week ago, I purchased a couple new corals, one of which was a clove polyp colony. At the lfs, it was a large rock with dozens of healthy and happy clove polyps. I purchased it, and brought it home for my fluval 13.5. It was a beautiful colony. On the way back, however, I watched in their bag as one by one, the colony was falling apart! By the time I got home, only about 50% remained on the rock. I called the LFS, and they apologized, saying that the rock they were on was actually a sponge. They offered a complete refund if I returned it, but this store was not close, so I decided to salvage what I could. I took them off the sponge and threw the dying sponge out, and planted the coral across the tank. That lasted about a day. Slowly, many of the cloves deteriorated, melting and falling apart, leaving the crabs with plenty of food. Every day, there’s always at least one more dead clove polyp on the ground. I fear that by next week, I will have none.
Below is the state of the remaining polyps. Note that they are only closed because I just finished putting them back onto the rock, as my crabs like to make a big mess of my work.
To put things into perspective, here is how they looked yesterday:
I am open to literally any suggestions in saving the polyps, as I don’t want this much money going down the drain.
A week ago, I purchased a couple new corals, one of which was a clove polyp colony. At the lfs, it was a large rock with dozens of healthy and happy clove polyps. I purchased it, and brought it home for my fluval 13.5. It was a beautiful colony. On the way back, however, I watched in their bag as one by one, the colony was falling apart! By the time I got home, only about 50% remained on the rock. I called the LFS, and they apologized, saying that the rock they were on was actually a sponge. They offered a complete refund if I returned it, but this store was not close, so I decided to salvage what I could. I took them off the sponge and threw the dying sponge out, and planted the coral across the tank. That lasted about a day. Slowly, many of the cloves deteriorated, melting and falling apart, leaving the crabs with plenty of food. Every day, there’s always at least one more dead clove polyp on the ground. I fear that by next week, I will have none.
Below is the state of the remaining polyps. Note that they are only closed because I just finished putting them back onto the rock, as my crabs like to make a big mess of my work.
To put things into perspective, here is how they looked yesterday:
I am open to literally any suggestions in saving the polyps, as I don’t want this much money going down the drain.
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