Leather coral problem

[MadCaddy]

I have a four month old tank with a couple of clowns, lawnmower blenny and a tomini tang. I wanted to take a shot at putting in my first corals so I grabbed a piece of GSP and a Kenya tree leather frag from my LFS about 5 days ago. The gsp is looking happy. The leather, not so much. It looked ok for a couple of days but it’s now looking very shrivelled up and has been turning dark brown in the middle. I figured both these corals would be newb proof but I guess not! Any ideas what might cause a leather coral to wither away and turn brown like that? My parameters are
Salinity 1.26
Nitrite and ammonia 0
Nitrate 10ppm
PO4 0
Mg 1170
Ca 360
KH 7
pH 8.2

is my tank just too young to support corals yet?

 

[Sleeping Giant]

I have a four month old tank with a couple of clowns, lawnmower blenny and a tomini tang. I wanted to take a shot at putting in my first corals so I grabbed a piece of GSP and a Kenya tree leather frag from my LFS about 5 days ago. The gsp is looking happy. The leather, not so much. It looked ok for a couple of days but it’s now looking very shrivelled up and has been turning dark brown in the middle. I figured both these corals would be newb proof but I guess not! Any ideas what might cause a leather coral to wither away and turn brown like that? My parameters are
Salinity 1.26
Nitrite and ammonia 0
Nitrate 10ppm
PO4 0
Mg 1170
Ca 360
KH 7
pH 8.2

is my tank just too young to support corals yet?

any pictures

 

[Cichlid Dad]

It is more than likely just fine. When I put in my first coral it was gsp and a leather. Took 2 weeks for the leather to display, the other leather I put in took a month. Gsp right away

 

[Mark Gray]

Pictures would help, maybe try to run some carbon

 

[Sleeping Giant]

they do get grumpy very quickly and sulk for a bit. mine looked like a giant pig's ear in my aquarium for 2-3 months lol

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Pig's ear lol

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have a four month old tank with a couple of clowns, lawnmower blenny and a tomini tang. I wanted to take a shot at putting in my first corals so I grabbed a piece of GSP and a Kenya tree leather frag from my LFS about 5 days ago. The gsp is looking happy. The leather, not so much. It looked ok for a couple of days but it’s now looking very shrivelled up and has been turning dark brown in the middle. I figured both these corals would be newb proof but I guess not! Any ideas what might cause a leather coral to wither away and turn brown like that? My parameters are
Salinity 1.26
Nitrite and ammonia 0
Nitrate 10ppm
PO4 0
Mg 1170
Ca 360
KH 7
pH 8.2

is my tank just too young to support corals yet?

Pics would help but can tell you that they do best at mid tank under moderate to medium flow and moderate light.
mag is low (1300-1350) and salinity 1.025-1.026
temp 77-79

 

[i cant think]

Pics would help but can tell you that they do best at mid tank under moderate to medium flow and moderate light.
mag is low (1300-1350) and salinity 1.025-1.026
temp 77-79

This isn’t always true. It highly depends on the species of Leather in question as well as where they’re naturally found, some are best under low light (such as Nepthea) whilst others like the Yellow Fiji (Sarcophyton elegans) love high flow and light which links to their natural origin of being in surge zones quite a bit.

 

[MadCaddy]

So I tried to grab pictures but they came out so blue you couldn’t even see it. Yesterday it took a turn for the worse and seems to have lost all its branches/arms. All that’s left is a stump. Is there anything in particular that might make a coral turn brown/black so quickly? It happened over the course of maybe three or four days after putting it in the tank. It was just a small frag, maybe a couple inches tall/wide.

 

[MadCaddy]

Update! So the coral continued to wither away until all that was left was a small stump with no polyps or branches at all. I left it in the tank anyway and sure enough, today I noticed there are some tiny sprouts/polyps coming from the stump. I originally had dipped the coral and put it straight into the tank without acclimating. Maybe I shocked it and killed the original coral. Hoping the new sprouts will be successful!