Will My Leather Survive?

Reef_Craze · #1 03-02-2009, 02:40 AM

It should be ok, from the cutting at least, that's how we frag softies after all. I would put it in a quarantine tank on a little piece of LR just for safe measure.

Are you using RO/DI water?

What are the tank parameters?

a pic would really help.

Sparkfarmer · #2 03-02-2009, 03:00 AM

I am using RO/DI water. I'll be checking my params again tonight, but they have been steady with Alk = 8 - 10 dkh, CA @ 380 - 420 PPM, S.G. = 1.024 -1.025 and PH around 8.3. Might have slipped though in the last few days. Just did a 20% WC. I missed one last week, but have been pretty consistant keeping up.

I also have in my tank a GBTA, Hammer and frogspawn LPS, some Xenia, Kenya tree, mushrooms and Rics. Everyone else is doing well. The leather was clear of all other corals...The damage to the Leather was mostly on the side with the Aptasia, and thats why I think its the culprit.

i have crabs · #3 03-02-2009, 04:12 AM

have you added anything to remove phosphate?

ILIKECOUGARS · #4 03-02-2009, 04:41 AM

Could be its shedding its skin as it grows. That would be my guess, my Toadstool did the same thing looks like its going to die for weeks, but now looks healthy and grew in size.

urbanhellfire · #5 03-02-2009, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ILIKECOUGARS

Could be its shedding its skin as it grows. That would be my guess, my Toadstool did the same thing looks like its going to die for weeks, but now looks healthy and grew in size.

+1

my leather would take on more of a greenish hugh every once and a while ( you could see dark green sections under antics ) mine will also decide to take a nap now and then and bend at the middle? It has no rhyme nor reason to be doing that but it always comes back in better and sometimes a little larger/different shape.

lobsterboy · #6 03-02-2009, 07:53 AM

+1 on the shedding to grow larger

Sparkfarmer · #7 03-03-2009, 01:11 AM

Thanks for the replies all. I hope your right. I'll let you know how it goes.