Vacuumed our leather by accident- HELP!

[kat 4]

While cleaning our tank our mushroom leather accidentally got his head in the way of our vacuum siphon thing. He's huge - about 12" high and now is completely laying on his side with a damaged top area. Is there hope he can come back? His stalk is bent over completely and it is probably 6" in diameter. Leave him alone - dose him with lugols - or what? Poor things...we are sooo sorry...

 

[saltn00b]

well you shouldnt be vaccuuming your tank unless you have some massive substrate like CC or hopefully not bigger. i would leave it alone and hope. keep your water params clean.

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by saltn00b
http:///forum/post/2686704
well you shouldnt be vaccuuming your tank unless you have some massive substrate like CC or hopefully not bigger. i would leave it alone and hope. keep your water params clean.

 

[smokingreefer]

ya, it should be fine. you just stressted the f*** out of it. you could cut it off at the base and it'd grow back. just leave it alone and it'll be fine.

 

[kat 4]

Thanks - we didn't actually use a "vacuum" - it just was the end of siphon hose doing a water change that got ahold of it by accident. Sometimes those slip away from you...we will leave him be and see what happens. Lots of coral vite too!!

 

[mkzimms]

they know its not actually a vacuum...

what they're saying is you shouldn't be distributing your substrate like that. sand bottom tanks have like 7 layers of bacteria, each layer doing a specific job. disrupting that balance will cause issues. it should be more than sufficient to have a clean up crew consisting of substrate stirring critters.
if you are running crushed coral or some other very coarse substrate then thats a different story.