Moonfruit777
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So here is my situation:
I got this new Australian Catalaphyllia a few days ago.
I ordered it online - the photo in the shop was top-down.
When It arrived it turned out, the coral was freshly cut on two sides and the bottom.
I could not believe it at first but they really shipped a freshly cut Cata to my doorstep.
It is known that those kind of LPS are really risky to "frag".
They are prone to infections, brown Jelly, tissue necrosis etc...
But the shop has no problem with fragging it and expects me to take the 50/50 risk of it dying.
When it would die in MY tank they probably deny it being their fault because "the light" "the water" "the something the shop just made up" is not quite right in my tank.
Maybe I'm overreacting a bit but I really am scared to just have wasted a ton of money on it.
I already figured a somewhat good/bad solution out with the customer support (who of course claims to have done everything right and the coral came out of the ocean like this )
Have you guys had similar experiences like this when ordering online?
Would you be mad or cool about it?
Should a freshly fragged LPS coral like this one be sold?
What do you think the chances of it surviving are?
I got this new Australian Catalaphyllia a few days ago.
I ordered it online - the photo in the shop was top-down.
When It arrived it turned out, the coral was freshly cut on two sides and the bottom.
I could not believe it at first but they really shipped a freshly cut Cata to my doorstep.
It is known that those kind of LPS are really risky to "frag".
They are prone to infections, brown Jelly, tissue necrosis etc...
But the shop has no problem with fragging it and expects me to take the 50/50 risk of it dying.
When it would die in MY tank they probably deny it being their fault because "the light" "the water" "the something the shop just made up" is not quite right in my tank.
Maybe I'm overreacting a bit but I really am scared to just have wasted a ton of money on it.
I already figured a somewhat good/bad solution out with the customer support (who of course claims to have done everything right and the coral came out of the ocean like this )
Have you guys had similar experiences like this when ordering online?
Would you be mad or cool about it?
Should a freshly fragged LPS coral like this one be sold?
What do you think the chances of it surviving are?