I'd post a picture but I'm not home this moment. I will do that tonight once I get back.
I've had a toadstool in my tank since the end of July. When I got it, it wasn't in the best condition, but over a week-2 weeks it perked back up. Over the past week it has closed up, and the polyps are no longer extended. It is slowly looking like it is slumping over towards the bottom of the tank, almost like it is melting.
Here's the picture when I first got it. It was purple, but turned brown/tan when it got healthy. It looks similar, but it is now on a rock (was acclimating it to the light at the time as it came from a tank with no light).
Just to clarify. I worked at a pet store and the lady came in trying to find out about the coral plus pick up some stuff. She had acquired the tank and the light broke. I traded her a chocolate chip starfish (who was living in my sump and driving me nuts) for it. Figured it was worth a try, and I'd get my sump back to house frags.
Here's the picture before it went back over.
I'm unsure what is going on. The last thing added to the tank was some frag plugs, just empty ones. I rinsed them off and placed them in the sump as I was going to use them to frag some xenia this week. We did about a 20 gallon water change today (on a 90 gallon system).
Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate are all 0. PH is 8.3, Calcium is 360-380, Alk is 8dkh.
The other corals in the tank are some mushrooms, zoos, torch coral, trumpet coral, xenia, gsp, brown button polyps, frogspawn and an encrusting coral.
The coral that is closest to the leather is the torch coral, but they had never had a problem nor do the tentacles get long enough to reach over and sting.
Also, bulbs were purchased in August, under 5x54watt t-5 (Aquactinics fixture, individual reflectors).
I've had a toadstool in my tank since the end of July. When I got it, it wasn't in the best condition, but over a week-2 weeks it perked back up. Over the past week it has closed up, and the polyps are no longer extended. It is slowly looking like it is slumping over towards the bottom of the tank, almost like it is melting.
Here's the picture when I first got it. It was purple, but turned brown/tan when it got healthy. It looks similar, but it is now on a rock (was acclimating it to the light at the time as it came from a tank with no light).
Just to clarify. I worked at a pet store and the lady came in trying to find out about the coral plus pick up some stuff. She had acquired the tank and the light broke. I traded her a chocolate chip starfish (who was living in my sump and driving me nuts) for it. Figured it was worth a try, and I'd get my sump back to house frags.
Here's the picture before it went back over.
I'm unsure what is going on. The last thing added to the tank was some frag plugs, just empty ones. I rinsed them off and placed them in the sump as I was going to use them to frag some xenia this week. We did about a 20 gallon water change today (on a 90 gallon system).
Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate are all 0. PH is 8.3, Calcium is 360-380, Alk is 8dkh.
The other corals in the tank are some mushrooms, zoos, torch coral, trumpet coral, xenia, gsp, brown button polyps, frogspawn and an encrusting coral.
The coral that is closest to the leather is the torch coral, but they had never had a problem nor do the tentacles get long enough to reach over and sting.
Also, bulbs were purchased in August, under 5x54watt t-5 (Aquactinics fixture, individual reflectors).
