Will my leather be ok?

[VickyH]

I bought a new leather yesterday, slowly acclimatised it to my water and then put it in tank. Today it looks really bad, is it sulking or is it dying??

[mayran]

First off, WOW that picture was huge :eek:.

Second, leathers sometimes just deflate like that for no good reason. I would keep a close eye on it. If parts of it start looking cheesy and clumpy, I would remove it or at least the cheesy, clumpy parts. If it never starts to look like it is decaying, just wait it out, it may come back just fine. But definitely keep a close eye on it over the next few days. If it starts to decay, it will probably progress rapidly and has the potential to kill other nearby corals, or worse.

Did I mention to keep a close eye on it?? :grinyes:

[Catpicklesdog]

Have you got it near it a powerhead. I used to have my leather toadstool at the bottom of the tank in a calm area and it was forever sliming and looking bald. I moved it nearer the top of the tank directly in fornt of a powerhead and it's a totally different coral. It's doubled in size and I've never seen it's polyps so extended.

As mayran said it's also probably still settling in as well.

[VickyH]

It's actually more or less right slap bang in the middle of the tank! My other leather is right by a powerhead and it is growing very quickly too, a bit too quickly really! Would it be ok near the output from the skimmer? It would also be closer to the other powerhead then

[BeelzeBob]

take into account that a leather's body is like 99% water,

when you put a softie in a new tank, they'll tend to deflate, slime and sometimes shed.

ive seen BIG toadstools go from a volleyball size to a softball, slime over,peel off their entire first layer of flesh, only to reinflate bigger and better.

ive seen this both in acclimating to a new tank, AND just for no darn good reason.

as far as you leather goes, id give it a good 5-7 days to "perk" all the way back up.

(you shold see improvement daily, as in it looks better today than it did yesterday, and it looks better tomorrow than today and so forth)

also look for any serious tissue disscoloration.

other than that, just give it time and patience

[scootrnerd]

i agree with moving it close to a power head. my leather wont do anything unless it has allot of flow!

[saltydunc]

mine took about a week to settle in.....it should be ok :)