Is my leather coral dying or splitting ?

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Is my leather coral dying or splitting, it’s been fine for a year tripled in size and now this ,


Alk 8.0
Cal 450
Mag 1380
Ph 8.2
Salt 1.026
Temp 77
No3 = 5ppm
Po4 = 0.004
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Is my leather coral dying or splitting, it’s been fine for a year tripled in size and now this ,


Alk 8.0
Cal 450
Mag 1380
Ph 8.2
Salt 1.026
Temp 77
No3 = 5ppm
Po4 = 0.004
03daf01d6b587ebf0c1f33a866bea095.jpg

Thx for any help on this matter [emoji1]
 

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Hard to tell by the picture. My yellow Fiji leather is much larger. like 16 inches across and breaks off buds all the time. About 5-10 a month! A good sign to me it that the polyps are extended. Just see where it goes and let it break off naturally. When ever I pull the buds off they take longer to attach to a new rock/plug. Good luck!
 
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Hard to tell by the picture. My yellow Fiji leather is much larger. like 16 inches across and breaks off buds all the time. About 5-10 a month! A good sign to me it that the polyps are extended. Just see where it goes and let it break off naturally. When ever I pull the buds off they take longer to attach to a new rock/plug. Good luck!

When the buds are released do they look like snow flakes in the tank ?
 

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Could it be getting nipt at? I have a medium sized toadstool that was nice and round,an emerald crab started to eat the edges.Now it looks like I chopped
the edges off for frags. It's been about 4 months and still looks a little ragged.
 
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No emerald in the tank , purple tang , yellow tang , 2 damsels , 3 clowns , 2 fire fish , and a lawn mower blenny ... snails , and hermits ...
 

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It's just another form of reproduction. I have this happen with a number of Sarcophyton and it almost always just produced another healthy coral.
 
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Thx for the info ....

B/c all my levels are good

So I was wondering what was going on ...[emoji1303]
 

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