I live in Northern Canada and the nearest Saltwater store is about 7 hours away, so everything we have gets shipped. We cross our fingers and pray things survive shipping. That being said mostly everything usually does survive. Almost all shipments take 3 days to get here with FedEx priority overnight. However, today I had a brain coral arive and the skeleton was exposed around the mouth! Upon closer inspection of the bag, I found a starfish. I'm not sure of the starfish species, but is it possible this is what killed the coral?