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post #1 of 8
12/12/10 at 3:43pm
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my finger coral was so beautiful , all of a suden it closes up ,its been about a month it hasn"t come out, my water checks out good ,lighting is good with new bulbs, everythings the same as it was when it was beautiful,theres nothing messing with it......help!

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post #2 of 8
12/12/10 at 3:47pm

Pic? What is the flow like?

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post #3 of 8
12/12/10 at 3:50pm

WELCOME to SWF

 

SO, you are saying it has not opened in a month?   As Gemmy asked....do you have good flow on it?  Leathers shed, and need good flow to help them

 

How old is the tank?  WHat are your water parameters?  What lighting do you have?

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post #4 of 8
12/12/10 at 4:01pm
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my water parameters are fine ,my tank is 3 years old ,8-36 in t5s and 2 -72 in vho, and the bulbs are new, water flow is good and  like i said nothing has changed its 180 gal with 5 lg power heads going

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post #5 of 8
12/12/10 at 4:19pm

WELL...I recently had an issue, and all parameters were fine.....I also have A LOT of ph's and a very established tank

 

It seems that my leathers all wanted to "shed" at the same time and caused an issue with the all leathers, and some other corals

 

I placed some carbon in my fuge, and did a couple of extra w/c's, and now all is well

 

Do you run any carbon?   Do you have any other leathers or corals?

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post #6 of 8
12/12/10 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by meowzer View Post

WELL...I recently had an issue, and all parameters were fine.....I also have A LOT of ph's and a very established tank

 

It seems that my leathers all wanted to "shed" at the same time and caused an issue with the all leathers, and some other corals

 

I placed some carbon in my fuge, and did a couple of extra w/c's, and now all is well

 

Do you run any carbon?   Do you have any other leathers or corals?

Meowzer is on to something (I think). My 2 leathers both did the same thing last week, since they were shedding.

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post #7 of 8
12/12/10 at 5:52pm
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i keep a PhosPure pad  filter inside the fuge it has carbon in it, come to think about it my cabbage coral has been shedding also

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post #8 of 8
12/12/10 at 6:00pm
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Originally Posted by bboggs View Post

i keep a PhosPure pad  filter inside the fuge it has carbon in it, come to think about it my cabbage coral has been shedding also



I have a phospure pad also....it wasn't enough.....I added a small bag of carbon right under the flow in the fuge.....a few days later stuff was looking much better

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