Limp Leather?

[HeadleesSon]

I have a fairly new 250 gal running. It has been over 2 months since it cycled. I have no problem with mushrooms, zoa, sarchophyton. I admit that I have run it thus far on tap water (will switch to di/ro within a week) but I do not have serious algea issues. The water is ridiculously hard and alkine, but as I said many items are happy and settling in.

I brought home a beautiful leather finger (lobo?) and it has basically wilted. I glued it to a rock tips up and after a few days thought I must have nocked the rock out of place. All the tips hung down. I just two days ago pulled it off the rock and it was firm, but had a small necrotic patch at the very base. the spot ( a line at the base about 1.5 inch) cleaned up easily with a powerhead. I moved the finger leather a bit and turned the points all up wards. Within 24 hours all the tips had sagged to point down.

Any idea what is going on? It does not expand at all.

 

[PAnanoguy]

Leathers are tempermental when changing environments. This is somewhat normal and par for the course. It could take weeks for it to open up and look happy. If your parameters are good and you acclimated it well it should come around. Leathers generally do not need much flow but some of them like a bit more. Maybe try giving it a bit more flow and see if it responds at all to that. Aside from that I would place him and leave him sit for a while. Moving him around too much wont help his attitude either.

 

[channingd]

Make sure you don't give him too much light at first either. Put him on the bottom or toward the middle and move him up slowly.

Iodine helps settle in too.

 

[mfinn]

Leathers are tempermental when changing environments. This is somewhat normal and par for the course. It could take weeks for it to open up and look happy. If your parameters are good and you acclimated it well it should come around. Leathers generally do not need much flow but some of them like a bit more. Maybe try giving it a bit more flow and see if it responds at all to that. Aside from that I would place him and leave him sit for a while. Moving him around too much wont help his attitude either.

+1

I have a 240 gallon tank full of leathers and at any given time atleast one is not happy. They just do that.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

never glue any "leather" corals

ID to family (at the least) will greatly help with giving good advice

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

The water is ridiculously hard and alkine

you will need to post a numerical value (including units of measure) to alkalinity. And post S.G. A SG 1.025- 1.026 is recommended