Toad Stool Health Question?

[triggerfish1976]

I currently have a big Toadstool Leather coral that has been in the tank for about 7 months. It is the long polyp variety and it was happy and healthy for the first 5 months but for the last two months it's polpys no longer extend are rarly show themselves at all. My tank is mainly setup to accomodate SPS corals so I have high flow throughout the tank and am running about 2000 watts of total lighting. I have moved it around the tank trying to find a happy place for it but it's condition has remained the same. The coral itself look fine it is just not extending its polyps.
What generally causes these corals to not show their polyps? My water params are in check with a typical SPS tank and I have not problems with any of my other corals including a big Devils Hand Leather which is all the way on the other side of the tank. I generally keep the Toadstool isolated from other inverts so I don't think that there is any chemical warfare going on.

 

[Amazon4]

Toadstools may look like this when they're growing and about to shed a layer of "skin".

 

[triggerfish1976]

I understand that but does this generally take 2 months?

 

[bassettmd]

From my experience the growth period takes no longer than about a week... hopefully someone who knows a little bit more could chime in soon. BTW, have you changed your lights at all lately? They are very sensitive to changes in wattage and spectrum from my experience.

 

[onecrzyboi4u]

See if you can place the toadstool in a lil less flow.. i had mine is a high flow it got ****ed.. so try that.. also are you putting tech I in the tank? i also notice dosing then my corals and toadstool really opened up..

 

[triggerfish1976]

I have been running 400 watt M/H's since the tank was setup. I generally only dose phytoplankton.