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Originally Posted by nemo79  You should never drip acclimate corals only fish and inverts. Corals only acclimate them to temp. You don't need to dip it in phytoplankton! Just leave the leather alone, it needs to get used to it's home and new spot. If you touch or move leathers around too much it stresses them and in the end you will do it more harm.
It looks fine, looks like it's acclimating or shedding detritus. Leathers do this every few weeks or so. Just leave it be and watch it, if there is too much flow it will shrink up or bend over, after a while if it doesn't look happy in the spot you put it in them move it once and try a new place but give it time in between moves. Also wear gloves when handling leathers as the oils from our skin can aggrivate them. |
Why should you "never" acclimate coral to its new water? #1, there is no way for me to acclimate it to temp without doing a sloooow drip. The coral is too big to put the bag in my tank without crushing my zooanthids. Also, I dont heat my tank, so room temp is easy to acclimate by doing a drip. #2, This coral was a display coral at my LFS that they just decided to sell. It lived there for 5 months. So Im going to take something from its home water of 5 months, and just drop it into my tank? I was told by the LFS that I DID NOT have to acclimate the coral. The problem was, when I was acclimating the clown and pseudo in the small acclimating bucket (1 gallon), the clown was biting the pseudo. So instead of dropping the coral right in, I acclimated it with the fish so the pseudo could hide. And thats exactly what he did. It probably saved him. So I had like 4 o 5 reasons to keep him in the acclimating bucket.
Dip it in phytoplankton?? Leave it alone?
#1 - I have never touched this coral. Ever. When I took it out of the bag from the LFS, and when I took it from the acclimation bucket to put it in display, I grabbed it from the rock base. So leaving it alone shouldn't be a problem. Im not sure why you think Im touching it or moving it around. Totally confused.
#2 - I FEED the coral Phyto Feast. Thats what he has eaten all his life. I dont dip the coral in the Phyto. I have no clue what that even means. I have fed it one time in 3 days.
#3 - As stated, the coral is on a rock base. I have never touched the polyps or the soft parts of ANY of my corals ever. And I always rinse my hands and arms in very hot water before I put my hands in my tanks. I am welll versed handling tanks and livestock.
#4 - As far as flow, the new coral is in the bottom right hand corner of the tank, with the flow nozzle being in the top left hand corner. So the finger is getting flow, but I believe it is not too much.
Thanks for the pointers but I wasn't doing any of the things you suggest I don't do.
