snehls Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 is it possible that my leather coral (looks sorta like a finger, but I'm not sure) is causing my other corals to bleach? My blasto, and my anthelia have since gone white since around the introduction of my leather coral. And now that I think about it, my sun coral started to look pretty bad too. any ideas? Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 leathers are known to be hardcore in alleopathy...so it is very possible. did you do anything else to your tank that could cause the bleaching?...perhaps temperature related? Link to comment
Sem L. Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 If leathers come to close to other SPS or LPS corals they will win the contest. Leathers sting harder than SPS or LPS corals what makes the last two bleach Link to comment
snehls Posted May 26, 2005 Author Share Posted May 26, 2005 the temperature hasn't changed at all. And the leather coral has not touched either coral that is bleached. I was just curious whether leather corals put off any chemicals that would cause bleaching in other corals within the tank. The corals that seeme effected are my blasto merletti, my anthelia, and perhaps my sun coral which I had to get rid off. Link to comment
Sem L. Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 It doesn't need to toutch ... if it's to close it will give this effect as well. Link to comment
qualudethunder Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 I have a decent sized spaghetti leather in my 15. A few months after I added it all of my rics bleached. I have thought of every possiblity for this happening except the leather. Now I'm wondering. Another thing is... almost all of my corals only open about half way from like 2pm until around 7. The leather however is fully extended. Great... Link to comment
snehls Posted May 30, 2005 Author Share Posted May 30, 2005 does anybody have a conclusive answer on this? I would just hate to take out my healthy leather coral, unless I'm sure it will cure my other corals. Link to comment
icenine Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 Do you run any carbon as part of your filtration? Chem-pure or something like that? Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 as i said before...alleopathy. just make sure that it's not something else before you take out your leather. Link to comment
snehls Posted May 30, 2005 Author Share Posted May 30, 2005 yeah, i run chemipure, change my sponges at least once a week, and my water is changed every week. The only thing that was off is my calc which is 550 or so, and my alk which is 2.5. The pH is 8.2; ammonia, nitrate, and nitrate are all zero; and there has been no known introduction of any hazardous materials. Moreover, this problem has been ongoing so if it was anything else, it would have been fixed by now, I should think. Link to comment
snehls Posted June 4, 2005 Author Share Posted June 4, 2005 I have really ruled out everything else. I just want to make sure that a Leather can cause so much trouble (kill my sun coral and make it go dark, kill my blasto, slowly kill my anthelia, kill a few zoos). water chemistry is fine, so I just want to make sure a finger leather can wreak such havoc. Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 Most likely the leather. They do put out a whole cocktail of various poisons, all of which are targeted at other corals. (That's what alleopathy is--the chemical warfare that constantly goes on in mixed-"media" tanks.) How large is your tank, and how large is the leather? Especially if it's really a Sinularia or Nepthea, they're very toxic corals. Still... That alk is way low. Link to comment
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