ratherbefishin
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I have an unidentified leather in my tank (looks like a devil's hand but doesn't have polyps like the DH I've seen) that has been with me for 6 months now. For the past few days it has been shriveled up, but I thought no big deal as that has been its normal behavior when it sheds a mucousy skin and then it would be even larger than it had been before. This time though, I noticed other inhabitants (namely a bubble coral and red lobo) were looking very sickly. An LFS once told me "when your LPS are sick, it means your softies are unhappy." So after tests proved nothing was amiss with the water quality, I inspected the corals. My leather's base looked like it was rotting, for lack of better word. I pulled it out and went about surgically removing the top from the sick base, and then I superglued the top on some LR and let it soak in a bin of warm tankwater for about 15 minutes to slime up before putting it back in the tank. I had already decided to run some carbon in the filter sock this afternoon, so I'm hoping that will pull out any toxins it releases.
Because I know everybody likes pictures, here is a shot of it when it was doing well (only pic I ever took of it). Didn't take shots of it's illness or the procedure, should have documented that.
If you're still reading, did I do the right thing in cutting it and gluing it on a new rock? Thanks
Because I know everybody likes pictures, here is a shot of it when it was doing well (only pic I ever took of it). Didn't take shots of it's illness or the procedure, should have documented that.
If you're still reading, did I do the right thing in cutting it and gluing it on a new rock? Thanks
