Odd spot on my leather

[hhughes]

My big leather has a spot on it I'm starting to worry about. It's a round white area, at first I just thought it was where it had budded off a little chunk (it does this all the time, and heals over quickly). This time it hasn't started healing yet... anything I should worry about yet? It's been about a week since I noticed it.
<fieldset class="gc-fieldset">
<legend> Attached files </legend>

>

class="gc-images" title="13063d19.jpg[/IMG] style="max-width:300px" /></a>

>

class="gc-images" title="a11822ef.jpg[/IMG] style="max-width:300px" /></a> </fieldset>

 

[tnyga]

Im an idiot...Im like...Who cares what she got on her couch or coat lol...

 

[jennm]

Looks like the work of a leather eating nudibranch.

Give it a freshwater dip and see if the sucker falls off. They look exactly like the leathers they eat so it could be right in front of you and you won't notice it.

You might then want to do a regular saltwater dip using coral disinfectant too, to prevent infection in the wound site.

Jenn

 

[hhughes]

Aw ****....

Now I'm worried. How can I ever be sure I've gotten rid of the little buggers, if they laid eggs etc? This is a coral I've had for almost 10 years now, I don't want to lose it .

I'll have to buy the disinfectant tomorrow and do the dip then. Which will also require major rearranging, since the leather is on a large rock about halfway up...sigh.

 

[jennm]

Have you added any new leathers lately?

It could be something else, but it *looks* like the kind of wound I've seen after a nudibranch got at it.

Usually once you find the culprit, it's gone. I have a customer who has a HUGE (at least 12" across) toadstool he's had probably 7 years, that had that, and it got over it.

Jenn

 

[hhughes]

I hope I can save it.

I haven't added new leathers, no, but I'll do the dip anyway.

Why are the "good" nudis so hard to keep, and the "bad" do just fine....sigh.

 

[llewella]

Hows mama leather doing?

 

[coolsurf]

UFO landing? For real, I agree with Jenn. Possible Nudi's.

 

[hhughes]

It's all kinds of hacked off at me right now, I just dipped it about an hour ago.

It's huddled up in despair.

Leathers are such little drama queens.



The spot hasn't changed, and I didn't see anything that looked like a nudi fall off of it, but I assume they can be tiny and hard to see if you don't really know what you're looking at.

I guess I'll give it a couple of weeks to recover and see what happens.