Limp leather in quarantine

[ReefHog]

So I was lucky enough to get a hand full of nice corals and frags from a friend who was thinning out his reef. I have them in a 20gal quarantine for now until my 75 is ready. (Maybe a week or two) There is a hammer, frogspawn, BTA, some shrooms, various sps frags and a nice neon green leather or colt (i'm not sure). All are doing well except the leather. It kind of wilted limp after a few hours after it was placed into the 20gal. I have some softies in another tank so i'm used to this behavior from time to time. But it's going on day 5 today and it doesn't look any better. I attached it to a piece of rock with a rubber band. The base is coming apart where the rubber band is. I checked water parameters. Ammonia = 0, pH a little high at 8.3. Everything else in range. I did two 5gal water changes every other day (two so far). Should I not have used a rubber band? How long can a leather stay like this and still recover? Is there a better way to keep it in the quarantine? When I wasn't quarantining corals, I would always just wedged a softie between two rocks and it would start attaching in a few days.

 

[Katrina71]

I'd move it away from that frogspawn

 

[mta_morrow]

I'd move it away from that frogspawn

Agreed^^^^^. It looks like a green sinulara. Give it medium light and moderate flow and it will be fine. They tend to get upset when they have to move to another tank. And you will also learn that they can get upset for no reason. But, they are very hardy and rarely die. All will be well.

 

[Katrina71]

Fresh frags are moody too.

 

[mta_morrow]

Fresh frags are moody too.

Yes! I didn’t notice that till you said something. It will take a bit of time to heal.

 

[ReefHog]

I'd move it away from that frogspawn

It looks a lot closer to the frogspawn than it really is. About 4 inches. Better safe than sorry though. I was thinking of moving the frag rack to the right and putting the leather between two rocks on the sand. I'll adjust the flow so it gets a little more also. Thanks for the words on encouragement.