My poor Toadstool.

[Mynx]

They weren't Zoas. Turns out they were Protopaly's, and since wiping them off the rock, I'm happy to say the Toady is standing tall, full polyps and is healing rapidly. He's getting his Zoos back and is opening up into a beautiful specimen. He's healed a lot.

 

[Gwiizzy]

I would say having button polyps like your saying you have all over my several toadstools that wasn't it, will say when they have been fragged heavily they become very top heavy and lean from stress, also with less than ample flow they form a skin and require ample flow to help remove it and where the skin is the polyps can't extend, once the top begins to expand agan it may stand up some more but it also might just remain top heavy till it grows to support that weight better it will take time but it should grow to be that strong!

GOOD LUCK! Keep us posted!

 

[Mynx]

They were paly's of the nasty variety, not polyp...ie? Haha. While they looked like cute little button polyps and acted like nice little zoas, they were burning my lovely leather. I removed them and i'll see if I have a recent picture of him but he's standing up, (Although he's moving down the rock so he can stand upright, seems he's bigger than 8 inches.) with full extension and has full color back, and his rash disappeared. So they were the cause of it, sadly.

 

[Mynx]

Finally can come back and say our leather is in perfect health! He lost the red skin this shed and the skin underneath is all nice and yellow, will be his pale pink with some light. So happy! He's standing tall (But he's on the move, he wants to be down lower but I can't move his rock down, so he's stuck moving.) and wide open! So happy that I got rid of those stupid paly's!

 

[shifty51008]

Heck my leather cant get close enough to my 250 watt mh lol leathers love alot of light.

 

[Mynx]

Mines moving down, haha. Don't know why, probably so he can stand straight up (He's on the top of an 8 inch rock, and he's close to 10 inches tall himself, in an 18 inch tank lol) so he's probably on the hunt to stand tall, which i'm cool with. But I'm just so darned happy that he's all better now!

 

[alb_56]

Any pictures? Curious to see how its been doing.

 

[Mynx]

Not today, he's just gotten passed his shed and is getting used to our new Circ pump... Our old one died mid-shed, and so we tossed in one we had bought for the big tank when it's set up.... It's a 500gph one, and blew up my Kenya Tree lol, so he's still acclimating to it, and he doesn't look fabulous yet, maybe in a few days he'll be photogenic i'll for sure post a pic, I can't wait to show him off!

 

[Holyassasin]

Looks like the zoas stung the toadstool?

 

[Mynx]

They weren't Zoas, they were Paly's and yeah they did, but he's better now! Just waiting for him to finish acclimating to our new circ pump then pics will come!

 

[Mynx]

Omg, it's taking forever to get a pic of this little bugger. I told everyone how wonderful he's doing, and that I'd take pics, and now he decides he wants to do another shed a week from his last one. He's either trying to make me look like a liar, or he wants to be sexy for the pics haha! :dance:

 

[Amoore311]

It was definitely those palys. I had similar ones in my tank and they were extremely aggressive. Nothing like your every day Zoanthid or button polyp.

I killed mine one at a time by injecting them with a tiny bit of vinegar. I'd take out 4-5 of em per day in my 180. Then when the colony was far enough away from the coral I was rescuing, I basically chiseled the rock they were on in 2. The side with all the palys went right to the LFS for store credit lol.

 

[Mynx]

Haha, yeah, I've made a better decision, when he comes off that rock to go to his new tank, that rock is being dried out and brushed off and broken apart to do new rockwork in our mini reef. :3