Is it normal to have a small hole in middle of toadstool.

[jordancemery65]

It looks like something is/was eating it there was some debris around the hole, it looked like shredded pieces of the toadstool. This was like last week, it seems to be doing better now, do they go through phases where there is a hole and then grow back??? I can try to take a picture of it later...

 

[Daleo]

I wouldn't say "normal" but it should grow back given good water quality and TLC

 

[Nammy]

Mine use to do the same thing and than split into 2

 

[jwoyshnar]

Mine is splitting right now. I did everything to stop it but nothing worked.

 

[Reverend Reefer]

i recently found a beautiful creature called Tritoniopsis elegans in my tank. it was pretty big (~1.5") and crawling on my front glass. turns out, it was a leather eating nudibranch!

needless to say, i had noticed before that my leathers (finger, toad, sarco) hadn't had their polyps out for a little while, and assumed it was similar to what others say that they just sometimes do that when shedding or growing or whatever. so after inspecting them more closely, i found tiny little things, almost unnoticeable due to their "camo", more of these nudibranches!

anyways, i dipped the corals in lugols and then hoped for the best. after a week, i saw a couple more that i picked out with tweezers.

after another week, dipped again in lugols, and my leathers looked fine.

however, i wasn't able to take my giant toadstool out but it didn't seem to be infected, i was wrong. i found a hole in my toadstool about 3 weeks after. i ended up taking an exacto knife and i carved out the hole plus a bit of tissue surrounding the area and tweezered it out.

its been about a month now since then, all my leathers have recovered and their polyps are out. toadstool is healing up but there's still a tiny spot with no polyps.

 

[Reverend Reefer]

here's the toadstool now, you can still see the left over space that is healing.

the finger is doing much better, you can see you can't even tell the eaten parts but clearly its missing fingers where there used to since it pretty off balanced now, those nudis munched!

 

[gmate]

Toadstools melt very easily in poor conditions. Has your nitrate or PO4 spiked recently? They are an indicator coral, so when a leather gets upset and sheds or begins to melt that means impending doom for other corals if action isn't taken.

My leather melted a big chunk out. I did a 33% water change two days in a row, and then it went back to fully extending and stopped melting. Turns out my nitrates were way higher and I got lax with testing them. Tested nearly 60-80 when I realized what the cause of the problem was. Last time I will get lazy with my water change regimen.

Best of luck,
Glenn