will my chalice frag make it?

TCK Corals · Feb 5, 2009

this was my flamethrower and it made it ok. hope it work out for you. sometime it not the shipper fault because my friend deliver for ups and he says they just chuck the boxes however they want they dont care. i think it should be ok. keep in meduim flow and low light until it heals.

Emc · Feb 5, 2009

I hope it make sit for you. It's a beautiful cahlice once it settles in and gets happy.

BigBoy69 · Feb 5, 2009

roshi, did you open my PM's?

roshi719 · Feb 5, 2009

Yup and I sent one back to ya

Neon Reef · Feb 5, 2009

Just want to say that its commendable what you're doing Roshi and your sales will only benefit from it because of good reputation that you're keeping.

FaviaFreak · Feb 5, 2009

Neon Reef said:
Just want to say that its commendable what you're doing Roshi and your sales will only benefit from it because of good reputation that you're keeping.

ditto

nino78 · Feb 5, 2009

Neon Reef said:
Just want to say that its commendable what you're doing Roshi and your sales will only benefit from it because of good reputation that you're keeping.

Thanks, guys. It's pretty simple really, I treat customers how I would want to be treated if it was my order.

roshi719 · Feb 5, 2009

That last post was me. Didn't realize Matt was still signed in at the store.

er1c.the.reefer · Feb 15, 2009

update: given a lot of TLC, daily dippings in amino acids, it's doing pretty good if i say so myself.

msman825 · Feb 15, 2009

looks a lot better. great save

roshi719 · Feb 16, 2009

Looks like it's gonna make it. Good to see.

Eric, I sent you a PM.

Acroholic · Feb 16, 2009

I learned a lesson about sick chalices coming in almost dead: I had a frag of Tyree Pumpkin Patch come in that was small to start, but started what I thought was a decline to death. One day the frag on the plug looked like nothing but dead coral with no tissue. I almost reached in and pulled it, but was too lazy, actually. Then, a few days later, I saw what looked like living tissue. My only guess was that the chalice expelled its zoxanthellae and turned clear or translucent. That little sick frag is now a nice, healthy, growing two eyed Pumpkin Patch coral.

I leave all chalice frags in the tank for a couple weeks, even if they look dead. I think chalices are pretty hardy after seeing that.
Dave

slojmn · Feb 16, 2009

Great save on that little frag :). Here are a few of my "feel good about dead chalices" stoies. I recently got a very nice, very high end, very stressed, looking like toast right out of the bag chalice. It was sliming in the bag...looked way worse than that flame thrower out of the bag. By the next morning it looked pretty dead. I left it alone and now, about 2 weeks later it is still viable. It has a sheet of thin skin, some very drab color, and the two eyes look to be puffed up a bit...and the best news, it is not dead. It isnot recovered to the degree that that Flame Thrower has come back but I am feelign pretty good about its chances in the long run. It may take a few months to get to where it was prior to shipping but hey, its alive.

I got this tiny frag of the Pink Mojito from Ming at Atlantis...drove it home and found it to be split in half at the skeleton...it proceeded to die to nothing within a few days in the tank. But I was pretty sure, with the use of my mesoscope, that it had a tiny fleck of flesh left in one of the skeleton ridges so I left it alone. 7 months later it is a nice quarter size Mojito frag, healthy as can be.

Chalices are amazingly hardy and I always let mine sit in the tank for quite a while, even if they look dead, before I pitch them in the garbage.

daaznmofo · Feb 16, 2009

lookin good.

er1c.the.reefer · Feb 18, 2009

do you think chalices are like blastos, where even though they recede to the point of no visible flesh, if there's anything at all, they can pop up little babies? i think one of my watermelons did that...

roshi719 · Feb 18, 2009

One of my buddies got in two frags last week that looked like just skeleton for two days and then out of nowhere they were solid green from the new growth edges showing. These were high end pieces too and now they seem to be just fine. I wish there was a way to control all million and one variables in a tank with out making your blood pressure so high.