Can Leather Corals Touch Each other?

[1UCKY]

Question...Can leather corals touch each other or will one end up killing the other? Currently have a ToadStool Leather that is turning a little white on it's edge (about 3/4") due to the Finger Leather next to it:p. Thanks!

 

[Killerdrgn]

they might be waging the chemical warfare on each other.

 

[1UCKY]

Will one of them end up dead from this if they are not seperated?

 

[tunicata]

Hm, this is odd. Because I have all of my leathers in one section and they are fine with each other. I mean, yes apparently, yours aren't getting along. I'd just move them.

But I have purple sinularia and green nepthea and routinely touch one of my toadstools because their stalks are long and float about. My finger leather (if that is Lobophyton) is by itself amongst clove polyps and anthelia and does fine, but those are not leathers.

I would just seperate them. It's not worth the dead tissue, keep them pretty.

 

[DevIouS]

It won't kill it....but the part that's touching will never look happy, as it's being irritated.
Most leathers are not aggresive enough to take out another coral, although Sinularia can be.

 

[inline6]

I find that most larger leather corals can irritate other leathers more readily in smaller systems. I have also witnessed in a nano a leather that melted away after being placed to near a finger leather.

 

[1UCKY]

Thanks guys for your input! I got this toad stool from inline6 and it's just a beauty; I will seperate them as soon as I get home.