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Is your tank as dark as the picture makes it out to be? I have had mine for a year, it was the size of a quarter, now it is 4 inches across and three times taller. can we get a close up of the leather it self and tank parameters?

My experience with toadstool leathers is they enjoy a good deal of light. They also tend to be sensitive to nitrates... where many other soft corals might actually thrive under a little more nitrate.

i have owned some very large toadstools, and they love light but also will close up for days while they sloth off old skin. they are weird and will close up slump over for days then come back.

I have also observed the same thing as stangchris. Usually when mine would open up again after being closed a couple of days, it seemed a little more colorful and a little bigger.

I have a toadstool purchased with a beautiful polyp extension and cream colored. After about a week the polyp extension receded and has been non-excistent since. The cream color has changed to a neon green and that is where it stands. I intend on playing with different lighting scenarios, in hopes of seeing a beautiful neon green toadstool with the once beautiful "hair" it once had. I would appreciate any input from other members. Thanks.

Mine used to close up then open again several times each day. Tough to kill, but I never did figure out what it takes to make them happy all the time. Alkalinity seems to be important though. Mine allways seemed to stay happier if I kept mine in the 9 to 10 dKH range, if it got down below 8 it was always closed up.