Green Leather not opening

I have a green leather that for several weeks was big and always had it's polyps out and looked great. I was away from home for a day (a full 24 hours) and when I returned, I had had enough evaporation that one of my pumps was pumping air bubbles into the tank - don't know for how long, but probably for a couple hours at least from the looks of things. Ever since then, the leather is not opening up - been about 5 days now. No polyps open or anything. He's kinda shrunk up too. I know they "close up" when disturbed, but this seems like a long time. My water parameters are fine and all the other corals seem to be fine and opening and such. I know that leathers "molt" too, don't they - could that be what's going on? Any thoughts?

 

i'm going through the exact same thing, and was looking for some help as well. maybe the bubbles just pissed it off so much it doesnt want to come out.... i don t know

 

Chance are that your leathers are closed because they have mucus covering it. All leathers slough periodically usually as a way of removing detritus etc. After a while the mucus will come off allowing the leather's polyps to once again open up. Try upping the water movement on your leather's as they require moderate movement!