Toadstool "shedding"

Dolfan · 05/21/2006, 07:39 AM

I added a Toadstool coral about 3 weeks ago to my 90g established tank. All my water parameters were as I wanted. The Toadstool has done OK but on about 3 occasions it has shed a mucus like coating from it, it hangs on and slowly breaks apart and is like a think film like coating?

I'm only had one Toadstool year ago and don't remeber this, should I be worried?

rowland75 · 05/21/2006, 07:59 AM

Dolfan

Thats totally normal. Leather corals often hide their polyps, go glassy, and shed a mucus.

Just make sure there a slight flow near it so the layer floats off gently.

Pete

Anemonebuff · 05/21/2006, 08:19 AM

Use a turkey baster to blast it off.

Dolfan · 05/21/2006, 11:00 AM

I did use my turkey baster to get the mucus off, so I guess I'm doing things right :-). Just looked at it and it's polyp/tenticles are raised which is a good sign.

21Reefman · 05/21/2006, 01:22 PM

My toadstool did that all the time when we had poor lighting. It looked like when your skin peels from a sunburn. Since the light upgrade, I have cut it up, grown them huge, and cut them up again but, NEVER saw the skin peel off like before. People told me that is was normal but, I think I needed more light. My toadstool does not slime unless provoked somehow, unlike some other leathers I have.

Dolfan · 05/21/2006, 01:45 PM

Interesting about the lighting, I have this about midway in the tank which is 24" deep with about 400w of PC lighting. I'll watch it and maybe experiment with a high placement if it continues

05/21/2006, 07:39 AM	#1
Dolfan Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta Posts: 493	Toadstool "shedding" I added a Toadstool coral about 3 weeks ago to my 90g established tank. All my water parameters were as I wanted. The Toadstool has done OK but on about 3 occasions it has shed a mucus like coating from it, it hangs on and slowly breaks apart and is like a think film like coating? I'm only had one Toadstool year ago and don't remeber this, should I be worried?

05/21/2006, 01:22 PM	#5
21Reefman Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chicago/NW IN Posts: 403	My toadstool did that all the time when we had poor lighting. It looked like when your skin peels from a sunburn. Since the light upgrade, I have cut it up, grown them huge, and cut them up again but, NEVER saw the skin peel off like before. People told me that is was normal but, I think I needed more light. My toadstool does not slime unless provoked somehow, unlike some other leathers I have. __________________ "The significant problems that we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

05/21/2006, 07:59 AM	#2
rowland75 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 106	Dolfan Thats totally normal. Leather corals often hide their polyps, go glassy, and shed a mucus. Just make sure there a slight flow near it so the layer floats off gently. Pete

05/21/2006, 08:19 AM	#3
Anemonebuff Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: LI,NY Posts: 3,877	Use a turkey baster to blast it off.

05/21/2006, 11:00 AM	#4
Dolfan Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta Posts: 493	I did use my turkey baster to get the mucus off, so I guess I'm doing things right :-). Just looked at it and it's polyp/tenticles are raised which is a good sign.

05/21/2006, 01:45 PM	#6
Dolfan Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Atlanta Posts: 493	Interesting about the lighting, I have this about midway in the tank which is 24" deep with about 400w of PC lighting. I'll watch it and maybe experiment with a high placement if it continues