Finger leather keeps shedding

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  1. cj5_dude

    cj5_dude Flamingo Tongue

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    I have a finger leather that has been in my 12 gallon tank for a few months now. It was all happy and all the polyps were extended and doing what it's supposed to do. Then they all retracted and it shed or peeled it's skin, which I understand to be normal. Then all the polyps came back, which again is normal. But now it's been peeling every few days for a few weeks now and it's getting that peeled skin all over my tank making it look like a mess.

    Is it stressed? What's going on here?
     
    cj5_dude, Jan 22, 2013
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  2. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    It may need more flow. Leathers really like a lot of flow. With this being said, leathers can be pretty difficult in smaller tanks due to their "shedding"
     
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  3. Biocube

    Biocube Giant Squid

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    My toadstool would shed often in my cube, at first it didn't do it and then it was almost a weekly thing. From what I understood it was happy and growing.
     
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  4. symon_say

    symon_say Astrea Snail

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    Maybe moving it to a another place to see if coral like it more.
     
    symon_say, Jan 22, 2013
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