Leather tree coral question

[chike87]

I have had a leather tree coral for several months. Lately it is not coming out fully. It is about 6" tall and is in a 90 gallon. I keep my salinity at about 1.021. Water parameters are:

Ammomia- 0
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- about 10
Calcium- 400

I have 4 TS-5 54 lights, 2 blue bulbs and 2 white. All my other corals seem to be fine, zoas, kenya, ect

Anyone that keeps these have any ideas ??

 

[dan30097]

Yea buy yourself a cyclopeeze freeze bar. Stir it inside the tank for 30 second by a power head. Do it 3 x a day. It will thrive.

 

[rdnelson]

Don't know if this would be the cause but that salinity looks a bit low to me. I keep mine at 1.024. For the past week, my toadstool has not fully extended and a lot of the time it has been fully receded. I have a hunch that the weather we have been having may be causing some PH swing. No scientific data to back that up but just a hunch.

 

[dakota9]

dan30097;746172 wrote: Yea buy yourself a cyclopeeze freeze bar. Stir it inside the tank for 30 second by a power head. Do it 3 x a day. It will thrive.

Seriously?


i wouldn't do this for anything, coral or fish.

leathers don't eat cyclopeeze and feeding a tank that many times a day is going to end with issues, and come about very quickly.

specific gravity should be 1.024 to 1.026 for a reef tank

sometimes leathers go through a dormant phase, after which they slough off outter dead tissue, this process my have something to do with growth. maybe that's what's happening.

 

[db366]

A lot of people feed 3 times a day. Although just sloshing around the bar is kind of strange.

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[dakota9]

not A leather coral they don't, or shouldn't

db366;746208 wrote: A lot of people feed 3 times a day. Although just sloshing around the bar is kind of strange.

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