Rot in my leather, a shrinking brain

[Grohm1978]

Hello Everyone,

i have had a toadstool for about 6 months that was doing fantastic. It had doubled in size before the problems started.

All my water params seeme ok.One day I noticed that the leather had developed a bleeched area on its cap. It was still opening and closing fine. About a week afte that, I noticed that the bleeched spot stayed moderately the same size but there was a small black spot on the coral, about half the size of a penny-maybe smaller. When I shot water at the spot with a turkey baster used in the tank, it blew a rotted piece of the toadstool off and a hole was visible through the cap. Since then, 3 more black rot spots appeared. Every time i blow the toadstool off with the water jet at that spot-I have another hole. Just last week, the toadstool started leaning-nothing dramatic but it is leaning.

What is happening to this leather? Is it a parasite? Could it be waterflow? Anyone experience this before?

Also, I bought a brain frag from the LFS and it has started to shrink. i had it at the top of the tank near the light with a lot of water flow. Should I move the brain down to the sand bed and off this high live rock location? Any help is appreciated.

[Twitterbait]

A picture would help on both. you may lose the leather. does not sound good at all

[ChilisREasy]

my toadstool has a few white spots on it, ill post some pics after while & see if its the same thing

[ckusnierek]

Doesn't sound good for the leather! could there be another coral or somthing touching it? Euphyllia can pack a mighty sting.

As far as the brain, What type of lighting do you have? If it came from the LFS inder VHO and you now have it under halide or T5 that could be a problem also, what type of brain is it? I'n not 100% sure but I think the open type brains should be in the sand and the favaties (closed) can be in the rocks.

[jenajet]

Might want to see this thread. There are leather eating nudi's. This is kinda a long thread but it goes from beginning to end showing the nudi he removed from inside the leather.

http://thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95836