Is this Red Ogo OK?

LeftyReefer · Aug 4, 2021

Today I received an order of Red Ogo from BRS/Algaebarn. Fedex delivered it and when I opened it, it had (3) cold packs in the box, but everything was very warm. It came moist, in a jar and the instructions say to rinse it off in fresh saltwater, which I did. When I rinsed it, the rinse bucket did cloud up a bit and lots of bits fell off... I then placed it in my fuge and turned down the lights. I pretty quickly noticed that only a few ends of a few strands are actually red... most of it is brown or green, and a few sections are whitish or clear... Is this likely to recover? or did the high temps during shipping get it?

attached are a few pics of it. You can clearly see what is red and what is green. Not much red unfortunately, but I've never had it before, so maybe this is normal??

LuisPerez711 · Aug 5, 2021

I received mine the same way. Greenish/brown with some orange. After a couple weeks it started coloring up. I am not sure if it was stressed due to the shipping or lack of light but it did regain its color....then I nuked it and bleached it out haha sorry, I dont have a picture of it colored up.

AlgaeBarn · Aug 5, 2021

LeftyReefer said:
Today I received an order of Red Ogo from BRS/Algaebarn. Fedex delivered it and when I opened it, it had (3) cold packs in the box, but everything was very warm. It came moist, in a jar and the instructions say to rinse it off in fresh saltwater, which I did. When I rinsed it, the rinse bucket did cloud up a bit and lots of bits fell off... I then placed it in my fuge and turned down the lights. I pretty quickly noticed that only a few ends of a few strands are actually red... most of it is brown or green, and a few sections are whitish or clear... Is this likely to recover? or did the high temps during shipping get it?

attached are a few pics of it. You can clearly see what is red and what is green. Not much red unfortunately, but I've never had it before, so maybe this is normal??