Sinularia Drooping / Splitting?

[OrokuSaki84]

Hi everyone!

My leather (Sinularia?) is acting weird recently. I bought it as a smaller piece about a year and a half ago. It's been doing exceptionally well. This week half of it started sagging and drooping. The half that is drooping still has good color and the polyps are extended. Is something wrong with it, or is it splitting? Do they even do that?

My other thought was maybe where it was originally attached is too small to support the foot print of the whole coral now. you can see in the pictures the algae covered "foot". It was rubber banded to a piece of rubble when I bought it, I glued that rubble to my aquascape.



Anyway - I'd love hear what you thinks think/know. Its such a beautiful part of my aquascape I'd hate to loose it!



Thanks!
Bri

 

[blaxsun]

My guess would be gravity.

 

[OrokuSaki84]

My guess would be gravity.

Touche - but until this week all of the stalks were upright and standing. Picture below. (please excuse the nuclear colors, I was playing with orange filters)

 

[blaxsun]

The nuclear colors are a nice touch. Sometimes a slight change in flow, etc. results in a change of behavior. From what I can see it looks healthy, so it's either gravity (this may have been in-progress for a while) or a change in flow (due in part to the growth or changes with other corals) would be my guesses.

A lot of times I'll have a coral that is doing really well and then just out of the blue it changes. Sometimes it's easier to pinpoint what triggered this. Other times, not so much.

 

[sfin52]

It maybe getting ready to split.

 

[OrokuSaki84]

The nuclear colors are a nice touch. Sometimes a slight change in flow, etc. results in a change of behavior. From what I can see it looks healthy, so it's either gravity (this may have been in-progress for a while) or a change in flow (due in part to the growth or changes with other corals) would be my guesses.

A lot of times I'll have a coral that is doing really well and then just out of the blue it changes. Sometimes it's easier to pinpoint what triggered this. Other times, not so much.

Thanks!

Thats kind of my thought here, nothing really has changed which is why I even wanted to post. I'll give it some time before I do anything else.

On a related note, how do you frag these? Is it as simple as cutting the stalks a certain distance from their base?

 

[blaxsun]

Thanks!

Thats kind of my thought here, nothing really has changed which is why I even wanted to post. I'll give it some time before I do anything else.

On a related note, how do you frag these? Is it as simple as cutting the stalks a certain distance from their base?

I have yet to frag any of my leathers, so I wouldn't be the person to ask (my snails keep pushing them off the rock ledge).

 

[sfin52]

Leathers are some of the easiest to frag. Razor blade tooth pick plug and rubberband

 

[cdnco2004]

My Sinularia is splitting right now. What ended up happening with yours?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Whenever I see draping sinularia, flow is always my first thought. Every one of mine likes high flow and get grumpy to the point of failed shedding and bacterial infections without it.

 

[cdnco2004]

Whenever I see draping sinularia, flow is always my first thought. Every one of mine likes high flow and get grumpy to the point of failed shedding and bacterial infections without it.

This is whats going on with mine right now https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-new-leather-splitting-after-2-days.932442/ I have only had it for 2 days.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

This is whats going on with mine right now https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-new-leather-splitting-after-2-days.932442/ I have only had it for 2 days.

Looks like a Nepthea to me, and I don't see anything to be concerned with.

Leathers Can be super ***** when being moved around. Mine will sulk for a few days after being touched.

 

[cdnco2004]

I hav no idea what kind of leather lol. I am way to new. That is just what the guys at Elite Reef said. Compared to how much I was paying for my hammer and octospawn heads, this guy was a good deal.

 

[sfin52]

I hav no idea what kind of leather lol. I am way to new. That is just what the guys at Elite Reef said. Compared to how much I was paying for my hammer and octospawn heads, this guy was a good deal.

Leathers are a cheaper coral not a less nice coral. I think they area super cool.

 

[cdnco2004]

So far I like them as well.

 

[sfin52]

Agree with @Lost in the Sauce its a nepthea not a sinularia

 

[cdnco2004]

Agree with @Lost in the Sauce its a nepthea not a sinularia

Yeah looking at different pictures I agree with Nepthea. Sinularia is just what the people at the LFS said it was.