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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / December 2005Mushrooms and lights?
I notice when I get new Mushrooms they stay closed up for a day or forever in some cases. My question is most stores have lights way above the tanks. I am wondering if when they are put in my tank which the distance from my power compacts is close to the surface if it might be a problem. I just got some beautiful purple/blue mushrooms and they were about 2 to 3.5 inches in diameter. I put them in my tank about 10 inches from the surface of the water and the lights are about 4 inches from the water and they are staying about .5 to .75 inches in diameter. They have only been in my tank about 4 hours, and when I bought them the lights in the store were on for about an hour. Thanks! Sheldon >I notice when I get new Mushrooms they stay closed up for a day or > forever in some cases. My question is most stores have lights way above [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Thanks! Sheldon I've always placed my mushrooms low in the tank. I don't think the distance between the top of the water and your lighting is significant. I believe it's the intensity. Mushrooms don't need intense lighting. If they don't look happy where they are at now, move them... in a few days. Light intensity and flow rate I believe are major factors in how a coral adapts to your system. I'm assuming your water parameters are good. Oh yeah, give them more than 4 hours to look pretty.... I will wait and see today. Do they like water flow or not so much? Thanks! Sheldon Mushrooms just need to adjust to whatever the lighting is. I have some right under my 2x250 MHs and others that are in caves at the bottom of the tank and both are doing well. You have to work realhard to kill shrooms, espically the more common variety Ken And I've got mushrooms 2 inches under water with 400wmh lights 9 inches above the water. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com wxtbs wrote on 12/27/2005 12:31 PM: > Mushrooms just need to adjust to whatever the lighting is. I have some > right under my 2x250 MHs and others that are in caves at the bottom of > the tank and both are doing well. You have to work realhard to kill > shrooms, espically the more common variety > > Ken High expectations to think your shrooms are just gonna go and open up like they wewre when you bought them. They need to acclimate and settle in just like anything else. They need to get accustomed to your lights, water parameters etc, so its not unusual for shrooms and other corals to act like that. Give em some time. Shrooms do ot need a lot of high powered lighting, but will in time acclimate to most lights......Just because the lights on the lfs store was onnly on hour and the lights in yur tank have been on 4, that shrooms or anything else should look like they did when you bought them. I have shrooms that I rarely ever see close up at night so the next morning there is no time lost in getting pumped back up.......sometimes my xenia and GSP close up or shrink, other times it does not...If all your paramters are fine I do not think you have anything to concern yurself with other than give em time. >><>I notice when I get new Mushrooms they stay closed up for a day or >><>forever in some cases. My question is most stores have lights way above [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >><> >><>Thanks! Sheldon  Signature\\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder! Koi-ahoi mates.... Thanks everyone! Today much better. I was asking because I dont like to torture things and want them to be happy. I will post results as the days go by. Thanks again. Sheldon > High expectations to think your shrooms are just gonna go and open up > like they wewre when you bought them. They need to acclimate and [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > (_/ > The original frugal ponder! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
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