kenya tree question.

[blazehok68]

ok so one day my kenya tree is all open and bushy and is a "happy little tree" to quote another, and the next day, three branches fall off and its all closed up and grey looking. it looks the way it looks when it is night time. all the other corals in the tank are doing great, especially my bubble coral, toadstool and devils hand. does having 3 leathers in the same tank have any affect on it?
as for parameters, i know my sg is1.025, as for the others, i dont trust my test kits as they are old and probably not accurate. maybe its just normal for the kenya to shrivel up for a couple of days when it drops some branches? the next question is why the heck did the branches fall off in the first place? they didnt look like they were in trouble the day before. is this how they spread?
any help would be appreciated.
120gal
90 lbs lr
75 lbs ls
10 gal fuge
2 perc clowns
3 lyretail anthias
1 yellow tang
1 zebra striped goby
1 royal gramma
1 pygmy angel
bubble coral
various zoos
mushroom colony
toadstool
devils hand
candy canes
gsp
25-30 hermits
10 turbos
1 queen conch
1 fighting conch
some chaeto in the fuge.
i have carbon in the fuge at all times
and a phosphate pouch in there for now.
i use ro/di water.

 

[teen]

thats how they multiply, hopefully it was in fact multiplying and not dying (its pretty hard to kill these things though, there very hardy). mine used to shrivel up for a day or two, then open up nicely the next day. id give them a few days, im sure theyll pull through.

 

[ninjamini]

Unless you tank chemistry is for ka-ka. Get some test kits.
Originally Posted by teen
thats how they multiply, hopefully it was in fact multiplying and not dying (its pretty hard to kill these things though, there very hardy). mine used to shrivel up for a day or two, then open up nicely the next day. id give them a few days, im sure theyll pull through.

 

[blazehok68]

i feel yah ninja. ill go to the lfs after work tommorrow.
and teen...i hope your right

 

[teen]

im right about them reproducing like that, but without a pic of yours its hard to say if that is indeed what happening. but im sure there fine.

 

[townsdp]

I know mine has done that many times. One piece starts to hang and then falls off and the whole tree shrivels. Then a couple days later it opens happily as does the branch where it landed. If mine shrivels and doesn't drop a branch, after a couple days it opens bigger than before. Don't worry.

 

[puffer32]

Mine did this after a frogspawn fell on it. The part that got stung turned gray and fell off and died, I was able to save the rest. Other wise, never had one lose branches before.

 

[kjord97]

When the branches are healthy, the branches sometimes fall of as a way of cloneing itself and spreading. Just like when an anenome splits, the tree just split and those are going to be new trees.

 

[grips]

Mine did this just a couple of weeks ago. It dropped about eight branches in a three day period and then shriveled up. After a week, it re-opened even bigger than it was (even though it dropped eight branches) and now I have nine Kenya Trees in my tank instead of one.
I wouldn't worry too much about it.