Mushrooms 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

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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'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....

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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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



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

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
Roy wrote:
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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( @ @ )
-----------oOOo(_)oOOo---------------


oooO
---------( )----Oooo----------------
\ ( ( )
\_) ) /
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The original frugal ponder! Koi-ahoi mates....