wilted shrooms?

[anarchyman2099]

Ok. I'm very ignorant when it comes to mushrooms, sps, lps, basicly you name the coral i dont know ANYTHING about it except if its cool looking and the light it needs. so heres my question; is it possible for a red, and green striped mushroom to wilt? I've had them for about a month and a half and they havent opened al the way. I've been doing weekly water changes and spot feeding them "black powder" and various shrip i feed my tomato clowns, also i have them in a low flow zone. what am i doing wrong to as where they refuse to open for me????

[phergus_25]

do you know what light they cam from and what light you have they are a rael adaptive coral and can go in higher light but also go to lower light so thye might have been use to a diff light so they might not upen up fully, mine did it and they were coming from MH to what was then a nano cube and it took like 2 months for them to open up fully

[anarchyman2099]

they came from a 20g that had i think 3 50/50 pc retrofits about idk a foot or so above the tank. i got a crappy flourecent that came with the 10g. Also would the fact that one of my bumblebee snails won't stop pestering them by settling right beside them on their rock?

[phergus_25]

yea could be, if i were you untill you could get some better lights get 2 walmart curlie q's taht are about 20 watts the screwin ones btu they are compact flourscents, i have 2 kinda, one looks like about 10,000K while the others are either 5500K or 6500K, i'll send you pics you could put them over it till you could get a better light, but hello lights has a 96 watt power quad fixture for 88 bucks if you wanted to look into that they probibly arn't getitng enough light

[anarchyman2099]

yea you're probably right. d@mn photosynthetic corals.

[phergus_25]

ha ha yea

[anarchyman2099]

would the 20" 1/28w hood by coral life work?