Leathers not opening

[jcs11236]

I have had my leathers for some time now. They are always open. And at times they close up but come back just fine. For the past week or so my two leathers (finger and devils hand) have not opened up. No polyps. They are small and seem to have some glossy look to them. Like a mirror shine. What could be wrong with them. Should I take them out. Are they dying? My parameters are:
temp 80.5
salinity 1.025
alk 8
calcium 430
nitrate 0
phos 0

 

[skene]

could be shedding?
I'm not an expert by any means, but I've never seen any leather look shiny.
Have you moved them around or is something close to it that it may not like?

 

[jcs11236]

I know. It's werid. Don't think it's shedding. I seen them do that before. I haven't touch them either. :-/.

 

[Dre]

They will open up again this happen sometimes when there is a sudden change in water pars.or from over dosing.Hold them under a power head for a few sec.they will open up in a few days or weeks.

 

[jcs11236]

Thanks for info Dre. I will try that. As long as they aren't melting, they should be fine I assume. I just don't want these guys to pollute my water if they do die or something Hopefully they will come back.

 

[noelskii]

They will open up again this happen sometimes when there is a sudden change in water pars.or from over dosing.Hold them under a power head for a few sec.they will open up in a few days or weeks.

+1, this happened to one of my leathers before.

 

[ming]

+1
When the leather is stressed (usually something more then just touching it), it sometimes may close and eventually sheds a very thin shiny layer of skin off, which looks almost like saran wrap. Once that shiny layer falls off on its own, the polyps will come out

 

[jcs11236]

K thanks for the replies everyone

 

[dubs]

they are ok they do that some times the shinny stuff is going to peel and then the polys come back

 

[DrHarryLopez]

Dude how r u doing? Come by sometime we can hang out.

 

[TonyHNY]

If you are really worrying, a small water change and placing next to better movement of water should help. They are very hardy...

 

[dunghan99]

my toadstool and leather corals does that some time for about a week or so.but when they reopen again they will look even nicer.

 

[dunghan99]

hope this will help.http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...l&start=60&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&ndsp=20&tbs=isch:1.....