leather toxin

[senji]

any1 care to explain this and symptoms and solution to this problem?

 

[user 26995]

Generally its not a good idea to keep leathers with sps. It seems sps are pretty sensitive to leather toxins (From what I have read elsewhere).
Best to run carbon on any tank with leathers and softies. Even musrooms. They are just as toxic I think.
People have had trouble with zoas and palys opening and other leathers polyping and loosing sps for "no reason". I have a large toadstool leather in the same tank with my sps and I had have trouble keeping some types of sps. Whether the leather is the reason or not, I dont know! Most of my sps and zoas are growing great. I have even cut that leather a few times and it has not affected the other coral negatively that I could tell. I am running carbon on all my tanks.

 

[mojoreef]

Leathers release toxins for a couple of reasons. One is when they are stressed or are getting chemical signals from similar or other toxic corals close by. The second reason is that they shed, and in the process of shedding they release a compound that also contains the toxins. If your tank has other leathers and softes only in it, it should be at to much of a risk. If you have other corals such as sps and lps then depending on the species they can have trouble dealing with it and it can lead to death. If you run a mixed tank then its always good to run carbon, good skimmer and other forms of filtration to deal with it, also more frequent water changes are also a help.

Mojo

 

[senji]

thanks yall is chemi pure any good? im running a ok skimmer a reactor with bio pellets and a carbon filter. also how bad is it to have micro bubbles in the tank. just cant rid of them.