toadstool, dying or just ugly?

[fishnutz27]

My toadstool looked almost exactly like that after I brought him home from our fragswap. At the swap he looked fantastic with full polyp extension but the stress from the trip home caused him to create a shell like "hard" slime layer that lasted about a week. At day 9 I could start seeing under moderate flow the polyps as the layer sloughed off. Day 10 I came home to see the rest come off in one piece (almost like a shrimp molting) and out popped all the polyps ready to eat like crazy. In my experience it looks very normal for a shipped and stressed toad. Be patient.

 

[laf-reef]

I vote for normal. My toadstools close up periodically sometimes for 7-10 days. Be patient with it.

 

[Aquarist007]

I agree I just cut to pieces off the one side of it because it was shading some ricordia too much. It stayed closed up for 10 days while it was healing.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

What is your SG? I don't have a toadstool, I have a devils hand that doesn't like low SG levels. I am pretty sure that all corals like a higher SG like 1.024-1.025.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

They take a while to open, couple of months for full extension, then they will be open all the time, so give it time.

 

[michaeltwana]

all good info.

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11229995#post11229995 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wicked_NaCl_h2o
What is your SG? I don't have a toadstool, I have a devils hand that doesn't like low SG levels. I am pretty sure that all corals like a higher SG like 1.024-1.025.

actually the preferred salinity level is 1.026 by a great number of experinced reefers on this site.

 

[Aquarist007]

Here's on in action:
About six months ago this toadstool developed these blackspots. Eventually it cut an grove around the entire spot, isolating the spot, expelling it, and then filled in the groove.

Here it is today:

 

[Beemo]

thanks for all the info

update, as of three days ago it shed all that hard looking dark stuff. it still hasnt opened but it looks alot better than it did before.
i cant wait until this thing opens lol

all my tanks spec gravity are kept at 1.026

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11244663#post11244663 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Beemo
thanks for all the info

update, as of three days ago it shed all that hard looking dark stuff. it still hasnt opened but it looks alot better than it did before.
i cant wait until this thing opens lol

all my tanks spec gravity are kept at 1.026

this is just personal experience and I know it is in opposite of some of the previous posts. But my mushroom does not like high flow or flow directed at it. I actually have a koralina above it. The minute I move it a touch lower in the tank the mushroom is irked.

 

[Beemo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11245045#post11245045 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
this is just personal experience and I know it is in opposite of some of the previous posts. But my mushroom does not like high flow or flow directed at it. I actually have a koralina above it. The minute I move it a touch lower in the tank the mushroom is irked.

yes that can be true also. i used to have a huge yellow toadstool that hated flow. it would shrivel up badly
i gave that one away, im kicking myself now since its probably enormous by now. it always was a healthy specimen.

i think alot does have to do with what you get in the first place. i dont believe this one is as healthy as it should be. its taking a very long time to acclimate to my tank. i bet if i buy another toad that is healthier it will have no problems at all.
i'll give it six months, if it still looks crummy and doesnt open by then im gonna chuck it.
i could always try moving it from its spot, maybe it just doesnt like the area its in