I've just gotten a green tree frag from a friend and so it's just recently been fragged and cut. I've got it attatched via elastic to a small peice of liverock. At first the frag looked really good, bounced back really quickly and had spread out it's "limbs" like it was originally...not exactly, but promising. But now it's kinda started to droop, it started near the end of the photoperiod so i'm wondering if it's normal for the leather to droop at night, or if it's just normal reaction from being fragged, or if it's strange?
Green Tree Leather droop?
- Thread starter DustinKeating
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I've done some reading and from what i can see it's necrotic, but that's just me judging from other pictures. is this likely from something that's just been fragged? everywhere i've read suggests cutting it away and then stitching it to a rock, does anyone here think that's a good idea to do right away or should i watch over a day or so to see if it gets worse?
well, generally speaking fragged leathers survive very well provided they do not get infected during the fragging/recovery process. first thing i would do is some water tests, if everything looks good and you are sure it is tissue death then you could try cutting out the infected part. using thread/fishing line to sew it down shouldn't have caused a problem
I read that this coral is sometimes hard to acclimate in a new tank, and hates shipping but in the long run, he'll be hardy.
I had 2 kenya tree frags stitched and an infection occured..they didn't grew in an other tank, not in my tank either. I also had another one that came along but not stitched and it's the only one alive. Found the others rotten 2 days ago ( 86.5 degree isn't helping, even with MH off during 3 days ) but the color was whiteish around the stiches. I tried different locations/lighting..nothing worked.
Ammonia and nitrites in your tank..not cool.
BTW Got an interesting link for nitrites...might be less toxic than we think in SW tank :
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-06/rhf/index.htm
I had 2 kenya tree frags stitched and an infection occured..they didn't grew in an other tank, not in my tank either. I also had another one that came along but not stitched and it's the only one alive. Found the others rotten 2 days ago ( 86.5 degree isn't helping, even with MH off during 3 days ) but the color was whiteish around the stiches. I tried different locations/lighting..nothing worked.
Ammonia and nitrites in your tank..not cool.
BTW Got an interesting link for nitrites...might be less toxic than we think in SW tank :
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-06/rhf/index.htm