Toadstool Acclimation Question

[justinmcleod]

I just bought a new toadstool, along with a Maxima some LPS and SPS, yesterday. Everything is doing great, extended, and generally loving life. The day I got the toadstool home it started extending some (it is a long polyped one), but not all the way. Today, after 6 hours with the light on it has not extended at all. Is this normal acclimation behavior? I have a 150 watt HQI phoenix 14K over the tank, and the store tank had VHOs or NO florescents. It is placed approximately 11/2 feet below the light. I tested the water and all the parameters are:

ph - 8.1 (bringing up to 8.3 with Reef Buffer)
Alk - 5 meq/L
Calcium - 400 ppm
Ammonia - 0
Phosphates - 0
Nitrates - 0

I have a couple clownfish and a sixline wrasse that does not appear to mess with it. Any thoughts/suggestions welcome! Thanks!

 

[justinmcleod]

Update - after my lights went out, the toadstool extended its polyps, and my open brain and trumpet corals feeder tentacles are extended as well. Who knows, some reverse photoperiod proclivity?

 

[Akimbo]

Give it a few days to get use to your lighting cycle as well as to acclimate to the new flow pattern and water chemistry. I bought one two weeks ago that was in a different light cycle and it took about a week to adjust to it. Now it is shedding off its skin and preparing to have a nice little growth spurt.

 

[stevek480]

Give it a few days to get use to your lighting cycle as well as to acclimate to the new flow pattern and water chemistry. I bought one two weeks ago that was in a different light cycle and it took about a week to adjust to it. Now it is shedding off its skin and preparing to have a nice little growth spurt.

+1. Took mine about a week or 2 for the polyps to extend.

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Yup, it's just acclimating. I do hope you meant 11.5 inches btw.