Toadstool stopped extending

[xCry0x]

I have had a neon green toadstool in my tank for 3-4 weeks now. About a day after placing it in my tank it was opening up nicely with some decent extension of polyps.

I took the past week off from work and had time to do some extensive water changes that I had been meaning to do to try to get nitrates down.

After the water changes the toadstool has closed up and for the past 3 days has not extended any polyps.

I also have a torch, frogspawn, candy cane and 2 mushrooms that are all fine and business as usual.

I did some searches and read that toadstools will do this when they need a water change, wondering if the nutrient shift in the tank could cause it to retract like this? I would almost think that lower nutrients would cause it to extend more not less.

while it is un-extended the green coloration has increased since the water changes which was one of the reasons I wanted to do some heavy changes to get nutrients down (better color in corals)

I also added a clown goby around the same time, which has now become more active and likes to sit on the toadstool, could that be upsetting the coral?

 

[StephLionfish]

It's about to shed. After changes in the water, including W/C's, they shed. They can stay closed up for quite a while beforehand.
Clown Goby could be irritating it, but I'd just wait and see if it sheds.

 

[sneaton]

mine was just closed for 2 weeks.....turned brown and thought it was dead....just shed today and looks better than ever

 

[xCry0x]

Ah cool, thanks for the quick responses. I saw some polyps extending this morning in the early AM darkness when I went to squirt phyto into the tank, so it must just be doing its thing.

 

[Sapsis]

Mine do that every now and again too