Leather Coral Dead/dying-- remove or what??

[pvpals]

Help! New to saltwater tanks...purchased a week ago. Prev owner said it had not shown signs of life for a little while and maybe sell it while it is still vertical.

Since moving the tank and all has settled now for seven days, this is what I have noticed about this coral:

Before the move-it used to be vertical, and was in the sand in the center (left/right) of the tank, light color: tan??
AFter the move:
-slowly started to list 60 degree for a few days and accumulate green algae on top of cap
-Then i noticed a "tear" in the flesh starting to open up toward the base of the coral. More listing.
-now, laying on side. Tear is flappy mush but not increasing in size. Color is getting greener. Found two crabs on it just now. pics below

What do I need to do now??

Tank has been maintained by prev owner for a year or little longer. But the coral sounded like it was a fairly recent addition that was thriving and extending its "tentacles" from the center of the cap. But just stopped. Have one koralia attached to rear wall of left side of tank pointing water toward front wall and flowing along front to right direction. Have anemonie and clownfish that like to move around tank I was told and sometimes sting things, but it is a foot+ away. Any ideas please let me know.Thx:sad1:

Tank is 80 gal with 20 gal sump, skimmer, macro algae in sump, copepods in sump for feeding mandarin, clownfish likes em too, coral beauty, etc.

 

[dread240]

I would put it in a QT for the time being, though it doesn't seem like it's going to make it honestly

 

[Vegas.]

sorry but it's dead.

 

[lisafoster]

I would get that out of your tank asap

 

[pvpals]

Hmmm...salinity was 0.24 only adding RO, 1 gallon a day for seven days now.

 

[oldreefer76]

That Toadstool is not dead, just give it some time, Wow all the advice you are getting is from newbies like you, it does not look happy but has no signs of necrosis either, leave it in an area of good flow and lighting and it should come around

 

[InsaneClownFish]

I agree, make sure you get your salinity slowly back to at least 1.024 and move the leather into some flow and light. Algae on it is a sign there's not enough flow where it is.
Do this slowly though- don't just blast it with flow right off the bat.

My toadstool is getting blasted by a 3200gph pump...they like flow(Don't ever do this, my toadstool is acclimated to the intense flow).

 

[InsaneClownFish]

I forgot to mention an Iodine dip in the appropriate salinity of water would also help.

 

[lisafoster]

not a newbie

not a newbie

Just a newbie to this site. If I saw something that I would pull it and put it in a qt

That Toadstool is not dead, just give it some time, Wow all the advice you are getting is from newbies like you, it does not look happy but has no signs of necrosis either, leave it in an area of good flow and lighting and it should come around

 

[pvpals]

Correction: typed my decimal in the wrong place... Salinity is holding steady at 1.024 now for seven days of just adding RO water to fill.

Well, just the little bit of jostling to get the little crab off so I can move it to a new place caused some milky white substance to billow off of the coral in different places. And since it is in the stream of flowing water all that substance was swept away toward the anemonie/clownfish. I am thinking toxic release? Put new bag of carbon in sump in hopes of absorbing that stuff.

Thanks for all the replies everybody...Happy Memorial Day!!

 

[Vegas.]

That Toadstool is not dead, just give it some time, Wow all the advice you are getting is from newbies like you, it does not look happy but has no signs of necrosis either, leave it in an area of good flow and lighting and it should come around

It is dead it has dead tissue all around it, I think I should know; visit my homepage.

"Well, just the little bit of jostling to get the little crab off so I can move it to a new place caused some milky white substance to billow off of the coral in different places. And since it is in the stream of flowing water all that substance was swept away toward the anemonie/clownfish. I am thinking toxic release? Put new bag of carbon in sump in hopes of absorbing that stuff." -pvpals

-This confirms my diagnosis.

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Curious how you made out with your leather?

 

[pvpals]

it disintegrated slowly...when we took it out we used a 2liter pitcher to scoop as much as possible and even the top developed a tear in it from moving it...there was some good tissue at the base that I left on the rock/clam hoping it would propogate but that too just disintegrated...everything else looks ok. glad that nothing else was affected by the toxins that it left. Want to get Palm Tree coral though, love the look of it!

Thanks for responding!:reading:

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Ahh sorry to hear. Good luck with the new tank.

I'm guessing now that you might have kicked up a mini-cycle in the move, which was probably impossible to avoid.