Navyblue
Low maintenance first
I have kept multiple leathers for many years, and I know that they often do that for a week or so to shed off.
I also had experience that sometimes they are diseased and rot from the inside. I think I know how to spot it when this happens. And when this happen I have to excise the rotting tissue and they would come back to normal.
Recently I have acquired a yellow toadstool leather. It took a few days for it to adjust to my tank and eventually fully opened up.
Once day I started experimenting with flow. At some point I think I had too much flow and the leather did not like it. I have since dialed down the flow but ever since then it stopped opening, and when it does the polyp extension is never complete. I think it has been a month or so it hasn't fully opened. Most of the time it just stay closed. All other corals (SPS, LPS and softies) are opening fine, tank is established for years and and parameters are good.
The stalk are somewhat soft, but not so soft that I am certain that it is diseased. But IME in order to be certain the only way to know is to cut it open.
Through out the period that it is not open I have also added multiple corals. So it could be allelopathy.
I wonder, if it is the case that some leathers just take much longer to shed, or is there something wrong (chemical warfare or diseased).
Thank you for reading.
I also had experience that sometimes they are diseased and rot from the inside. I think I know how to spot it when this happens. And when this happen I have to excise the rotting tissue and they would come back to normal.
Recently I have acquired a yellow toadstool leather. It took a few days for it to adjust to my tank and eventually fully opened up.
Once day I started experimenting with flow. At some point I think I had too much flow and the leather did not like it. I have since dialed down the flow but ever since then it stopped opening, and when it does the polyp extension is never complete. I think it has been a month or so it hasn't fully opened. Most of the time it just stay closed. All other corals (SPS, LPS and softies) are opening fine, tank is established for years and and parameters are good.
The stalk are somewhat soft, but not so soft that I am certain that it is diseased. But IME in order to be certain the only way to know is to cut it open.
Through out the period that it is not open I have also added multiple corals. So it could be allelopathy.
I wonder, if it is the case that some leathers just take much longer to shed, or is there something wrong (chemical warfare or diseased).
Thank you for reading.
