Coral question! Easy one for many of you!

[DetectiveTofu]

Hey all (again )

I just added a mushroom polyp to my tank...it is kind of reddish colored, roughly a little larger than the size of a dime - looks like it is kind of slowly beginning to melt backwards. Or bend backwards on the edges - is this...normal?

Also, when you add pulsing xenia, and zoas, and gsp's and the such to a tank, how long do you 'generally' wait before the polyps begin opening? Some of the zoas polyps have opened all the way, while others are still closed. My Xenia is just kind of hanging out not doing anything...a little bit bent over.

Also, when I got my zoa frags, they came with LR; the frag itself looks like a bunch of closed polyps in sort of a circle/ball with the polyps pointing in all directions...so if I were to bind it to a rock, a polyp(s) would get smashed/get no light. Right now I just set the polyp in a little groove in the rock where is protected from high flow; is this okay?

TIA

 

[650-IS350]

Zoas like good indirect flow with decent light...some acutally love hight light from MH's. but the key is to slowly acclimate them to the light... start them from the bottom, then slowly work them up as time goes on... the zoos will actually show you if they're happy or not. REMEMBER... DIP the zoos, in case of nasties in them.

as for xenia, sometimes mine looks like is all shrivled up, but next thing you know they've enlarged to 2-3 times its size.

Some zoos open immediately some days/weeks. running only attincis also encourage them to open up.

For GSP mine opened up after 2-3 days..