Can sinularia polyps touch rock work

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First sinularia (allegedly) and wondering if I should be concerned with where/how I mounted it.
The tips of a couple of the branches/polyps will occasionally lightly touch the rock work with random flow.
I assume this is no big deal but figured I'd ask now, before it's too late.

Bad iPhone pic through filters showing where contact is made (occasionally) -- couldn't get a good angle:

sinularia1.jpeg
 
Leather newbie with another question.
*sinularia from post #1 is doing great -- upright, growing, and bushy

Bought another leather a few days ago, just labeled "green leather."
At LFS, the rubble it was mounted on was shoved into the top of a PVC pipe.
One edge of the leather stalk had started to grow out onto the top of edge of the PVC.

I mounted the rubble and leather was upright for the first day but had a notch in the side from where it had been partially supported by the PVC.

It has now (for the last 2 days) laid over on its side with the part that used to be just a notch/step seeming to be the weak part, now kind of stretched over:


leather_cut1.jpg



What would you do?
Leave it alone longer and see what it does?
Try to support it upright to see if it straightens up on it's own?
Cut above the now stretched part that used to be a notch and let the top half attach to another piece of rubble?
Other ideas?
 
Leather newbie with another question.
*sinularia from post #1 is doing great -- upright, growing, and bushy

Bought another leather a few days ago, just labeled "green leather."
At LFS, the rubble it was mounted on was shoved into the top of a PVC pipe.
One edge of the leather stalk had started to grow out onto the top of edge of the PVC.

I mounted the rubble and leather was upright for the first day but had a notch in the side from where it had been partially supported by the PVC.

It has now (for the last 2 days) laid over on its side with the part that used to be just a notch/step seeming to be the weak part, now kind of stretched over:


leather_cut1.jpg



What would you do?
Leave it alone longer and see what it does?
Try to support it upright to see if it straightens up on it's own?
Cut above the now stretched part that used to be a notch and let the top half attach to another piece of rubble?
Other ideas?
Leave it alone, leathers deflate and inflate all the time.
 

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