Leather fully recovered (afishfanatic/Dean)

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I thought I would post this so everyone could see how a coral can recover from almost death.

A couple of months ago I bought a leather from Dean (afishfanatic) that hadn't opened in months and Dean really wasn't sure what was wrong with it. He informed me that he had tried everything from low light, to more flow, to less flow, and nothing had helped. Here is the a pic of the coral when I first got it from Dean 2 months ago....

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When I first got the leather home I found it in a nice spot, so it would get plenty of flow and lots of light and it looked the same for about 2 weeks. Then I decide to remove the watermellon mushroom (see pic above) that was attached to the rock and in a couple of hours I noticed the coral starting to relax and release some of the arms. I was so excited! So after a couple weeks of TLC here are the results.... :)

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I have a finger leather that is not doing to well also. And guess what, it has the same kind of green mushroom at it's base touching it. I will remove it tonight and hopefully I will have the same results. Thanks for posting your results.
 
We have the same leather. It looks a lot like the first picture you posted. Sometimes it looks pretty spread out, but the last several days, it is pretty withdrawn and wilted. It is on it's own base, and it does not have a mushroom touching it. I'm not sure what to do with it. We've moved it to a couple of different spots changing lighting amount and flow, but we just don't know what else to do to make it expand again. Any ideas? This is a picture of it pretty spread out. When it looked like this, we were pretty happy, but like I said, it's been pretty withdrawn for several days.
 
Try running some fresh carbon actively (in a canister filter or phosban reactor). That should remove toxins from the water and soft corals will perk up.

Keep in mind that leathers do look wilted for a few days each month, as they shed. Typically after that, they look a little larger than before due to new growth.
 
We just put in the carbon a couple of days ago in a canister filter. I didn't know about the shedding thing. We just moved the leather up closer to the lights. We'll watch it for a couple of days to see if it improves. Thanks for the info.
 
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Man do I feel stupid. I never even thought about removing the mushroom. That is great to see that is will survive. Nice job, Bill!
 
Great job of bringing that guy back out! I love it when that sort of thing happens so yay for you! :D
Since I'm just a beginner at this I've learned a pretty good deal about the fish but squat about the sort of stuff in this thread. What is it about the mushrooms? Do they sting? And normally I would've thought that was a coral with all those branches except for the soft base. So that's a leather too, huh! What sort is it and what requirements does it need? Does it require the same high quality water parameters of the corals and anemones? Lighting? What and how do you feed it?
Sorry for all the newbie questions but I'm dying to learn enough to finally add some of the interesting kinds of things to my own tank besides fish.
Jenn
 
Dean,

I wish I could say the same for the brain. As you can see in the pic above it looks the exact same and recently the hermits have been hanging out on it, so it may be on the downhill slide. :?
 
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