Added my first corals today!

[FutureBoyGenius]

I added a mushroom, a xenia, and some type of brain to my 90 gallon display today. I want to make sure I am not making any lethal mistakes. I rubberbanded the mushroom to one of my live rocks ( the rubberband crosses its mouth in the center) and set the brain at a high flat point. The xenia is in a relatively high flow point. Both the xenia and the mushroom have withdrew and are much smaller than they were when I bought them. My nitrates are between 15 and 20. I am running 130watts of 10000K PC during most of the day and then 130 watts of actnic at night. My water temperature is at 78 degrees.

Please give me some tips. How long will it take for the xenia and the shroom to open back up?

 

[vr697getta]

other than the brain those other 2 corals like a low flow. i always super glued my mushrooms to where ever i wanted them. the rubber band shouldn't be tight just enough to hold it put
also nitrates are to high the mushrooms and xenia should make it but i am worried about the brain . don't add any other corals till the nitrates go down
other stuff needed to know how many fish and what kind, how much live rock do you have

 

[vr697getta]

pics always help
and i don't think its wise to cover the mouth of the mushroom
one other way is to just lay the mushroom in a low flow area and it will attach it self in a few days

 

[FutureBoyGenius]

I have three ocelaris clowns, a psuedochromis, bicolor blenny, and pacific blue tang. I have probably 30lbs of LR in my sump and probably 80-100lbs in the display. These are very rough estimates.

 

[FutureBoyGenius]

I can't get it to sit somewhere, it keeps flipping over. You can't put super glue directly on it can you? Should i cut a plastic cup down and put holes in it and place the shroom on a piece of lr inside the cup?

Xenia don't like flow?

Is my water temp warm enough?

 

[vr697getta]

heres what did i have a bunch of mushrooms found a small rock that i wanted to put them one took out the rock dried a little out little dabs of super glue get the gel it will make you life way easier placed the mushrooms on the glue let it sit for 2 or 3 mins yes this is ok to do and put it back in my tank
that is what i did for my rics
sorry about the coraline algae

 

[vr697getta]

temp is good
Xenia like some flow not alot

 

[FutureBoyGenius]

Please excuse the picture quality, I just wanted to give you an idea of what I have. I can't get my good camera to upload. So I am doing what I can.

Thank you VR for your help, please don't leave me hanging just yet. I want my first coral exprience to be as good as possible. And I definitely don't want unhappy/dead corals....

 

[FutureBoyGenius]

so it is ok if the superglue directly touches the shroom?

 

[vr697getta]

they are just adjusting to your system they should open up in a day or 2 but i would do some big water changes to get those nitrates down
mushrooms and Xenia are the hardest corals to kill you should be fine with them. but i have no personal experience with brain coral so i am not much help there sorry

 

[vr697getta]

yep just don't shove the glue down its mouth lol and you will be fine
and like i said get the gel super glue so much easier to work with
it took me awhile to believe that you can put super glue in a tank also

 

[FutureBoyGenius]

the shroom will be fine outside of the tank for a whole 2 minutes?

 

[vr697getta]

i forgot a piece of sps that i fragged for almost 15 minutes outside of my tank and its still alive to this day