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.

On 26 Dec 2005 18:26:43 -0800, wrote:
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

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