Please Help! White Finger Leather!

SEEYA7 · 03/10/2013, 06:51 PM

I bought a White finger leather yesterday. It looked beautiful in store. It had been in store for about 1 month and doing great! I brought it home last night and it seemed to be fine. Late this aftenoon it started turning Yellow and kind of loosing tissue at the base! My water paramiters are perfect. The star polyos are doing fine. They were also purchased last night.
Any Ideas? This is my second attempt to keep this coral!

SantaMonica · 03/16/2013, 12:48 PM

Last night? Probably is just adjusting.

channingd · 04/10/2013, 11:30 AM

Just adjusting. The "tissue" loss is slimming probably. Defensive mode. Run carbon for the sake of the other corals in your tank. Once he adjust to your light he will be okay.

MARINECRITTERS · 04/11/2013, 04:43 PM

Normal, when soft corals ( leathers ) become stressed out they will slough off a slim coat, this helps remove algaes and other pesky organisms that may be growing on them.
BTW are you sure it is a true white leather, many lFS will sell you bleached out leathers claiming that they are some rare species, as they mature in the aquarium they should regain there natural colours, this happened to me.

03/10/2013, 06:51 PM	#1
SEEYA7 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 52	Please Help! White Finger Leather! I bought a White finger leather yesterday. It looked beautiful in store. It had been in store for about 1 month and doing great! I brought it home last night and it seemed to be fine. Late this aftenoon it started turning Yellow and kind of loosing tissue at the base! My water paramiters are perfect. The star polyos are doing fine. They were also purchased last night. Any Ideas? This is my second attempt to keep this coral!

03/16/2013, 12:48 PM	#2
SantaMonica Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Santa Monica, California, USA Posts: 2,511	Last night? Probably is just adjusting. __________________ Inventor of the easy-to-DIY upflow scrubber, and also the waterfall scrubber that everyone loves to build: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1424843

04/10/2013, 11:30 AM	#3
channingd Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Posts: 79	Just adjusting. The "tissue" loss is slimming probably. Defensive mode. Run carbon for the sake of the other corals in your tank. Once he adjust to your light he will be okay. __________________ 210 mixed reef, 44 mixed, 30 mixed, 30 frag. Current Tank Info: 210 working on mixed reef, 44 mixed, 28 mixed, 30 frag

04/11/2013, 04:43 PM	#4
MARINECRITTERS Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,525	Normal, when soft corals ( leathers ) become stressed out they will slough off a slim coat, this helps remove algaes and other pesky organisms that may be growing on them. BTW are you sure it is a true white leather, many lFS will sell you bleached out leathers claiming that they are some rare species, as they mature in the aquarium they should regain there natural colours, this happened to me.