tree leather

[psychodave]

I just got an order in from reefermadness.com today. I ordered 3 rainbow yumas and a tree leather. They apparently tossed in a few more corals as I ended up getting 4 rainbow yumas, the tree leather, a frag of Acropora and some very large polyps...i dont think they are zoanthids.

At any rate all of them look fine, except for the tree leather which has unattached from its base and is now laying on its side. Should I be worried? How do I get it to stand back up? Do i stick a plastic toothpic through the base and glue the toothpick to a rock, should I wedge it between some rocks???? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The tank is 30 gallons with 30 lbs live rock, 15-20 lbs live sand, 2x180gph powerheads, an Aqua C Remore skimmer and an AquaClear 30 wet/dry filter. The water perameters are almost perfect, 8.2 ph, 0ppm nitrate/nitrite but the ammonia is at .25ppm. Im working on getting that down, I also seem to have a diatom/cyno outbreak. Im gettin a brown/green film on the glass and my sand is turning brown. I use only RO/DI water, salinity is 1.021. Lighting is Coralife Aqua Light, 2x65 watts...130 watts total.

Any advise, suggestions?

Thanks

 

[psychodave]

oops...its actually Gold Finger Leather

 

[ODOG]

The toothpick trick will work. I don't use that one though. I like to just take a rubber band with my softies and rubberband 'em to a piece of rubble or seashell. Sometimes the rubberband can wind up slicing the leather in half over the course of a couple days, but this has never proven to be bad for me either as then i usually wind up with 2 of what I fragged.

 

[psychodave]

Nice! Well looks like the coral reattached it self to the rock last night. Its definately anchored to the roch, but it isnt standing as tall....it looks like its squished it self down, though its gettin a bit to close to my bubble coral for my tastes...looks like ill have to move the bubble coral.

 

[psychodave]

well I just super glued it to a rock...well i guess its Krazy glue gel. Its staying attached, but its almost completly deflated...its lookin rather pathetic. Is 130 watts of light in a 30 gal to much light? Should I give it some shade? All of my reading says it likes moderate to bright lighting and medium flow...



This is my equipment

2x 180 gph powerheads

aqua c remora backpack skimmer with a maxi jet 1200 power head

aquaclear 30 wet/dry filter

2x65 watt coralife lunar aqua light

30 lbs live rock

30 lbs live sand

all water peramaters are good, a slight ammonia spike..ammonia is .25 ppm Im going to do a 30% change tomorrow morning, other than that ph is 8.2, nitrates/nitrites are 0ppm salinity is a bit lower than id like at 1.021



dang, i just looked at the coral...looks like i glued it to the rock on the side of its stock, ill try to get my roomaits camera so I can show a pic...is that going to be ok? It looks like its expanding though...

 

[psychodave]

dispite what it looks like, its not leaning on the glass