need help!

I have a finger leather that is just gorgeous and huge. On the weekend he started shrinking up, which I know is a normal occurance with leathers due to them growing. Well Tuesday it's even smaller and waxy...that's normal too. The base has a inch and a half of pink colour (just like it usually is) and I can see the mucous sloughing and I can see it's pores(where the polyps come out) But on wednesday I noticed in the middle of it's body there is a little flesh missing. I don't know if this is normal or what I should be looking for if there is a problem. I attached a pic and circled my concern. Please anyone with advice I need it. I love this leather. Do you think my lighting is good enough?

 

It's really hard to tell what I'm looking at because the picture is blurry

 

heres another pic

here we go. I will post as many as I can but most of the time I have to shrink them till you can't see anything.

 

If it was me, I would put that sucker in some strong current and make sure your water paramerers are up to par. Mabey even do a small water change, that can never hurt. How much light does your tank have? Mostly just give it some strong current and that will help it in a few days if its not already infected.

Jay

 

I dont see a skimmer in your signature file. You do have a skimmer right?

Jay

 

What are your
Ammonia
Nitrite
Nitrate
PH morning and mid-day
SG
Temp
CA
Alk
Readings

Do you still have the flame scallop?

It appears it is melting. there is something amiss in the tank.

J

 

Okay leathers are weird. My leather is standing up straight and polyps are comings out! I don't think it was melting, I think it is doing that waxy and growing thing they do. Does it have a name...I guess it's kinda like molting.

I just did a water change. It is in a good flow area, we changed it last night and I think that's what helped it as it wasn't sloughing off the waxy buildup.

Umm I thought I had all my info in my sig. Yes the flame scallop is still alive and seems to be good. My perameters are:

ammo 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
phos 0
ph 8.2
ca 420 ppm
alk 9 dkh
sg 1.025
temp 80 always

everything else is doing great. My seamats are full, xenia happy and pulsing, candy cane great, rics huge, frogspawn....wow they grow fast.

 

oops sorry. They were in my sig but it was crammed too tight. Can you see it better now? let me know so I can fix it if you can't.

 

Well Everything looks Great.

do you dose anything else?

It could just be in a phase

J

 

Hey Jason, I find it wierd too. I have read everywhere that leathers do shrink and become waxy when they grow. An hour after I put this thread out it started standing up straight, polyps out and looking better. Leathers are complex.

I dose esv bionic a few times a week. I also dose reef plus but only once and that for vitamins and small amounts of iodine. I did a small dose only and I did test my iodine, which seemed a little low.

Well I just hope the leather was growing. If so it's gonna be huge. It already was pretty big.