I got my toadstool yesterday and it looked beautiful in the fish store but has no tentacles up yesterday or today. Any help please I want to make sure I didnt waste $80.
Help us out and post some water parameters. Let us know how you acclimated it to the tank. What kind of toadstool is it?
I acclimated it by a small hose and a 5 gallon bucket and im currently testing the parameters.
Mine took a few days to open up when I first popped it in. It still "shuts down" for a day or two from time to time.
ok thanks that takes a load off
yea, toadstools are weird. Mine will close up for a day or so every other month and then pop back out the next day like nothing happened
ok thanks for all the help
It's too early to worry. If it starts melting, appears to be sloughing tons of furry stuff, or collapses, then it's something to deal with. You may have it under too much light, in too much flow, or a fish that is constantly nipping at it. Give it a few days for sure, but keep an eye on it and let us know what you see.
What types of fish would nip at it
My Powder Blue Tang chewed off the polyps daily. After a couple of years, that fish died. The coral began to open up and turned into that gorgeous showpiece in my 280g reef.
Ok i only have clowns and damsels
Yeah toadstools shed and get ticked off when they get handled and moved for LFS to their new home.
My toadstool is the weirdest coral in my tank. Every day it goes from happy with it's polyps out, to polyps retraced and al scrunchd up looking irritated 2 or 3 times. And I can't find anything in the tank that's picking on it.
pictures would help greatly though.
Im sorry for no pictures my camera is currently broken
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