I think my cabbage leather is sick or something...

[mumra]

Halp, it appears to have some dark spot forming in the middle and there's a tiny hole on the right side of the top face.




P.S. parameters are all pretty good.

 

[hzheng33]

i can't see clearly but when it happened to my leather, that was when it tried to split or frag itself.

 

[mumra]

i can't see clearly but when it happened to my leather, that was when it tried to split or frag itself.

Someone else said that was probably it as well. It's also spitting out a lot of gunk to so hopefully that's it.

 

[tdam]

My neon cabbage used to shed. After a week, it would look alot brighter.

 

[kodock]

Might be splitting. Leathers can be sensitive to aluminum as well. Are you running any phosban or anything?

 

[mumra]

Might be splitting. Leathers can be sensitive to aluminum as well. Are you running any phosban or anything?

No I'm not. But I did have a bag of some phosphate something or other when I was dealing with a dino outbreak. Is that the same thing?

 

[kodock]

No I'm not. But I did have a bag of some phosphate something or other when I was dealing with a dino outbreak. Is that the same thing?

I really only know of seachem products doing it, ones that can have aluminum oxide. Is it still in the tank? If it’s out, then your ok. If not, I’d take it out and see if it changes anything. Aluminum leaching would more likely close the leather up than what your seeing here. Just food for thought in case.

 

[mumra]

I really only know of seachem products doing it, ones that can have aluminum oxide. Is it still in the tank? If it’s out, then your ok. If not, I’d take it out and see if it changes anything. Aluminum leaching would more likely close the leather up than what your seeing here. Just food for thought in case.

Yeah, I haven't had it in there for several months.

 

[kodock]

Yeah, I haven't had it in there for several months.

Probably all good then

 

[mumra]

The dark spot in the middle has gotten bigger.

 

[mumra]

It's on a rock with an orange setosta and some green thing that I forgot the name of, both sps corals. Does that matter?

 

[mumra]

I went and moved it down in the tank in case it's getting to much light or flow. idk

 

[mumra]

It's gotten worse. Its all brown but the rip that was forming in t middle is closing up. Thoughts?

 

[mumra]

Better pic. Not doing great. I did an iodine dip about 4 weeks ago.
Parameters:
11/10
Phosphates 1.0
Alkalinity 10.9
pH 8.0
Nitrate 20
Magnesium 1280
Calcium 420

 

[ecoreefguy]

I’m not sure if phosphate that high would annoy softies. I run 0.02 and I know things get annoyed at .08-.1. I think my tank would crash at 1.0

 

[mumra]

I’m not sure if phosphate that high would annoy softies. I run 0.02 and I know things get annoyed at .08-.1. I think my tank would crash at 1.0

I could be reading the color wrong. It's really hard for me to tell the difference in some colors. But everything else is doing great.