Help with opening

scoobyalty

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I purchased a small colony of brown button polyps from my LFS and they were open when I brought them home. They also were open when I put them in the tank and up until the lights went off the first night. It has since been 2 days and they appear to be trying to open (at least a few of the polyps) but they are not totally opening. I have them on the bottom of the tank and they are under 2 250w mh and 4 55w PCs. I would say they have a medium to low flow being in the middle. Any help would be really appreciated. I am new to this type of polyp

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They are still not opening....a few you can see they have opened a little bit but they do not come all the way out. Is there anything else I can do or is this how they work until they are fully acclimated?
 
So some more time has passed and they are still not opening....is there a specific place in a tank that best suits new Button Polyps? Right now they are getting moderate flow, have good MH lighting, and are in about the middle of the tank. Should I move them again lower and see what happens or should I take some of the flow away from them? As I have stated before I am new to these and just want them to survive.

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