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12-15-2007, 09:58 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2007
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 |  leather coral
2 black tips on leather coral with stringy substance hanging from it and dislodging at times.Purchased 3 weeks ago and have yet to see it open up.Parameters good everything else thriving in the tank.Should I be concerned or do something,or is this part of a molting process?  | 
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12-15-2007, 10:04 AM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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It's just shedding its skin because it's growing. Mine is doing the same thing right now! So don't worry about it. _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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12-15-2007, 10:06 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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 Leathers can be tricky corals. While usually quite hardy, they did much better for me once tank matured a bit.
Move it to better flow area or just to different place in tank.
If a Kenya Tree, mine often close up for 2/3 days...but never for longer then that.
Also would do quick/significant water change in case something in tank coral does not like.
Good Luck. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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12-15-2007, 10:11 AM
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| | Giant Squid
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Yes, periodically Octocorals will develop a mucus coat! This is their way of riding algae, parasites, detritus or sediment buildup to afford them a healthier environment. Intense lighting and moderate water flow is ideal for sinularia, lobophytum and sarcophyton species especially! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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12-15-2007, 10:38 AM
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| | Caribbean Reef Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Kinda like molting.. Mine did it all the time.... | |
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12-15-2007, 11:09 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
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The same here! Everything changed after placing it in the dricet flow from my koralia 2 pump! _________ 75gal. Rio240 JEWEL aquarium
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2 lovely Amphiprion ocelaris
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12-15-2007, 12:04 PM
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| | Plankton
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Just finished with a 10% water change,and within an hour the leather coral has doubled in size,what appears to be goose bumps on it and their is only one black tip on it and no stringy mucus,weird. Must of been something in the water?Thanks everyone for the help.. | |
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12-15-2007, 01:24 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greek machine  Just finished with a 10% water change,and within an hour the leather coral has doubled in size,what appears to be goose bumps on it and their is only one black tip on it and no stringy mucus,weird. Must of been something in the water?Thanks everyone for the help.. | .....That's because it did what I told you it was doing...GROWING! Leathers shed their skin just like snakes when they get bigger. Nothing was wrong, nature was taking it's course. Congrats! | |
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12-16-2007, 06:58 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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I would be concerned about black tips on a leather coral. I would cut the black piece off with a sharp razor blade or knife and give the coral an iodine dip before you put the coral back in the tank. | |
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12-16-2007, 09:02 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greek machine Just finished with a 10% water change,and within an hour the leather coral has doubled in size,what appears to be goose bumps on it and their is only one black tip on it and no stringy mucus,weird. Must of been something in the water?Thanks everyone for the help.. | I have found that my leather corals are a good indicator of when I need to do a water change.
When I get lazy and don't change on schedule - which I do miss once in a while -
I notice all my leathers starting to shrink and get wilty...
Do water change and they all perk up just fine. | |
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