Leathers Drooping - Just Shedding or something worse?

[Sea MunnKey]

Disappearing Xenias are a sign that the Leathers have released some form of toxins into the water itself. I've experienced that where it killed lps, softies and acros alike. Remedy is to do water changes & apply activated carbon to "trap" the toxins. Try not to leave the activated carbon in your system for too long though, the Leathers do not like it after a while.

 

[Fudsey]

I know of a few people who have had mp10s, I think it was, start leaching.

 

[Cory]

Heres an article of mine that might help called Uncertain Loss

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/uncertain-loss.327/

 

[Jmunk]

Can’t really test for cloramines.

You’d have to not change em for a LONG time , let em get hot n cold hardly if ever use em , keep it in a dusty dirty place.

Gotcha. So really for that, and even in general, should I do another water change now with the fresh RODI filters I got today?

 

[Jmunk]

Disappearing Xenias are a sign that the Leathers have released some form of toxins into the water itself. I've experienced that where it killed lps, softies and acros alike. Remedy is to do water changes & apply activated carbon to "trap" the toxins. Try not to leave the activated carbon in your system for too long though, the Leathers do not like it after a while.

Thanks, that makes sense. I know leathers can sort of go into chemical warfare. I've done two water changes and got carbon running in a reactor that I plan to change out the media for maybe every few days/every week. I'm going to do another water change today after I got all fresh new RODI filters.

 

[Jmunk]

Another update: Corals look about the same. Yesterday I did another WC with all new RODI filters and I changed out the carbon again. One thing I noticed was that there is what looks like diatoms over the new rock, toadstool base, and the other leathers. Is this related? Is it because of the rocks I added? I don't remember the last time I saw brown algae in here.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea, prob some diatoms. Mostly a watch and wait game now I think

 

[sfin52]

Watch wait. Keep up with the water changes. My finger leather went slack and closed up tight for two months. Than bam out it came and almost doubled in size. At that time I was adding rock and messing with the flow.

I was always checking on it and moved it a couple of times. I finally just left it alone and it came out of it's funk. One of the only corals to survive my newbie learning curve.

They are tough

 

[Jmunk]

Watch wait. Keep up with the water changes. My finger leather went slack and closed up tight for two months. Than bam out it came and almost doubled in size. At that time I was adding rock and messing with the flow.

I was always checking on it and moved it a couple of times. I finally just left it alone and it came out of it's funk. One of the only corals to survive my newbie learning curve.

They are tough

Thanks man. It seems things are getting a bit better. However, I noticed today, one of the leather finger corals that first started showing the signs is actually losing/rotting a couple of his fingers. Could he be sorta the cause of the domino effect? At this point, do I remove him?