Strange Leather Behavior....advice needed

[fishguy_8]

Ok my umbrella leather was open all the way w/ the tentacles when i left 2 weeks ago. Since then the parents have taken care of the tank. Like I said back then, there is a Capnella Leather connected to the stalk of the leather, it was about an inch long when i left. Now the "tentacles" are pulled in, in the middle, and the "tentacles" are out around the edge? Its in the same spot as before. I do have a little cyano on the substrate in the tank and its starting to get up on the rocks too. So I'm thinking the cyano creeping up on the stalk could be a possible cause but i have one other hypothesis. 2 weeks ago when i got it the capnella was only about an inch long.....today when i saw it I'm sure it grew 2 inches. Its at least 3inches long now. Could this be causing some stress on the umbrella? should i remove the capnella from the umbrella? if so please walk me through the process. please help i dont want to stress either of them. thanks
Jon

[Rin]

Can you post a pic? I think I need to see this before I can give any kind of advice.

Operations like this are always iffy because you never really know for sure if what you're doing is the right thing to do or if will do any good at all. Leathers seem easily stress from the slightest disturbance, but they're also capable at recovering from almost nothing.

[fishguy_8]

Thanks for the reply rin.....my brother is coming down tomorrow i'll call him now and ask him to bring down the cam so I can get some pix of it and the rest of my stock. Pix to come soon I hope.
Jon

[fishguy_8]

ok i think i figured out the problem w/ my leather, but now i cant figure out this stinking digicam. what i have to do is connect it thru my computer somehow and take pix thru that. But i dont know what im doing wrong its not finding the camera on my computer. Im using a Dell computer its brand new so by all meens it should have all the right equipment on it. the camera is a Sony Digital 8 DCR-TRV350. if any of you have any ideas please let me know.
Jon

[bongobrian]

I don't think having a capnella and a leather coral next to each other would be a problem. Chances are something else happened to your tank while you were gone that is causing problems. I always have a hard time letting someone else take care of my tank... I just don't trust them to do it properly. Anyway, do some tests on your water and see what is causing the cyano outbreak. It's probably a rise in your phosphate levels. Has anything died in the tank?

[fishguy_8]

What we found was that the umbrella enjoyed having the 20w. NO actinic over it at all times i was sure that wasnt it but my dad was thinking thats what it was because i had it positioned just under the blue light when i left it. I never thought a 20 w. NO light would make a difference. I thought it would like the VHOs more but apparantly it digs the blue. It hasnt pulled in since we made the light adjustments. So now the VHOs are a few inches back. The rest of the coral didnt seem to mind either. Nothing had died in the tank, but one of my fish got cloud eye so i have been dosing melafix and its recovering. but i went out and got a bigger clean up crew because part of the problem im sure was that the sand wasnt getting stirred enough. I picked up 10blue legged hermits ($10), 3 red legged hermits. Now last week when everything looked fine, and the water tested fine, my dad picked up a bubble coral. Some of the cyano is around the bubble coral its not yet on the coral its self but i think its keeping it from releasing its sweeper tentacles. The whole time i was home it was resiliant of letting them out. i put a peice of krill on it and it didnt take it like the one here at school does. So i know something is wrong. Im going home SOON...this thursday.....so i hope it improves by then but if it doesnt what should i do?
Jon
p.s. again if anyone knows the Sony Digicam's well i could use some help im technology retarded when it comes to my bro's cam.

[organicreefer]

i would think you need to have the software for the cam installed in youre computer to download the pics.....
leathers close up now and again to shed a waxy film to rid themselves of sediments /algea-nothing to worry about