help! fragged finger fish dying!!

[MTBake]

Here's a link. The coral on this thread is a differemt color though.

http://www.petcha.com/choosing-and-caring-for-finger-leather-corals/

 

[NewGoby]

Here's a link. The coral on this thread is a differemt color though.

http://www.petcha.com/choosing-and-caring-for-finger-leather-corals/

Yeah, I have one of them myself (but a small specimen) but it doesn't look anything like his second picture, when deflated. I can definetly see where you're coming from, let's just hope it is a leather, that'd explain the loss of life.

 

[MTBake]

Yeah, I have one of them myself (but a small specimen) but it doesn't look anything like his second picture, when deflated. I can definetly see where you're coming from, let's just hope it is a leather, that'd explain the loss of life.

Agreed. Hope the worse is behind them.

 

[MnFish1]

I disagree, in the first picture the polyps are out & about, in the second they're retracted, giving a deflated look.

Guess that there's only one way to find out ^^

@Mikeand Mel is the coral hard, or soft?

It’s easy to figure out op was it a hard or soft coral. It looks very similar to a large leather that I had. I took the whole rock it was on out of the tank and sold it.

 

[Mikeand Mel]

It is soft.
I pulled it gently off rock a first then I used a scalpel I bought from Marine Depot (actually bought a whole fragging kit).
The rock it is on is almost 2’ long and has a couple other corals that grew onto it making it very hard to remove.
I also started to remove the toadstool that had grow onto it but stopped when I noticed fish.

 

[UM Aquarium Club]

It does appear to be a leather. We try not to mess with leathers much anymore. After fragging some corals in our frag tank, many of which we had previously fragged we lost 75% of the tank. Only thing we could think of was that the leather which we had never fragged before released some sort of toxin that within a day had caused massive tissue loss across most of our candy canes along with acans, and polyps of palys and zoas closing up.

 

[sfin52]

It is soft.
I pulled it gently off rock a first then I used a scalpel I bought from Marine Depot (actually bought a whole fragging kit).
The rock it is on is almost 2’ long and has a couple other corals that grew onto it making it very hard to remove.
I also started to remove the toadstool that had grow onto it but stopped when I noticed fish.

 

[sfin52]

That's an impressive leather.

 

[Mikeand Mel]

We bought this from Petco about a year ago and it was only 2 fingers! If the piece I took off makes it I will take this whole rock out before I ever frag again in the tank.

 

[Mikeand Mel]

One more question.
I leave tomorrow for 1 week, have non reef person staying at house and feeding fish.
Do I leave carbon running all week?
All corals open, last two fish fine and eating well.

 

[garbled]

yes. carbon won't really hurt. You have to be careful fragging soft corals, sometimes the chemicals they release are super toxic. I've read a few posts over the years of reefer's faces going numb because they touched their lips while fragging.

 

[sfin52]

Put in fresh carbon before you leave. If it's not to hard you could have non non reefer change carbon as well .

 

[Trickman2]

Running carbon is good in general...no point in not keeping fresh carbon going.

 

[Mikeand Mel]

Is carbon good to run always with a reef tank?