Toadstool in trouble?
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Dkuhlmann
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You have posted this in the LPS forum and a Toadstool is not an LPS, it belongs in the Soft Coral forum.
I'll answer your question anyway as I've got a few of them. They prefer High light and good med to fairly heavy flow. From the looks of where you have it placed it has neither.
If you take a little time to search anything you buy for your tank fish, LPS, SPS or leathers and soft corals you can go to the Live Aquaria website and find each thing there is a complete explanation of each and it gives location preference on each in the description.
So find it a place with med/high light and med to high flow and it will become happy again.
I'll answer your question anyway as I've got a few of them. They prefer High light and good med to fairly heavy flow. From the looks of where you have it placed it has neither.
If you take a little time to search anything you buy for your tank fish, LPS, SPS or leathers and soft corals you can go to the Live Aquaria website and find each thing there is a complete explanation of each and it gives location preference on each in the description.
So find it a place with med/high light and med to high flow and it will become happy again.
ok, i thought it still counted as an LPS, my mistake. my friend gave this to me. i obliged to take it because his tank had a crack and he broke everything down. he told me it would be fine on the sandbed with the 90w LEDs i had for my jbj nanocube.
i tried to research a little and saw that it wanted medium flow and light. i thought i had it in a good place for both. I don't really know what "medium flow" really is as i mostly just have zoas and they're doing fine. i didn't want to put the toadstool directly in flow
tonight i'll try putting it higher and with more flow. thanks for the input!
Regarding the brown ring at the bottom, My neon polyp toadstool has the same thing. I just does not seem to shed at the point it attaches to the rocks. It has been like that for over a year with no apparent problem from it.
For the rest I agree, it needs lots of turbulent flow and good lighting.
For the rest I agree, it needs lots of turbulent flow and good lighting.
ok that's good to know!
you can't see the pumps and power head, but it was receiving indirect flow. they were pointed at the walls and the water flow would bounce of and onto the toadstool. you could see it sway a little. i guess that's what i thought was "medium".
still i'll try higher up and more flow later tonight.
