button polyps not looking good

[nate_j]

i just got some new button polys from my LFS 2 days ago and there were closed up from the time i got thewm today they are starting to open ....do they look like there going to make it?

 

[michaeltx]

the picture is way to small to actually see some of the ones that I have stayed close up for abot a week before they opened up fully.
were they open at the LFS when you bought them?
if so I would get to worried about them yet.
HTH
Mike

 

[nate_j]

no...they werent open at the lfs but they had just got them in eriler that day ..i hope and think they will be alright

 

[salty rick]

I would not worry at this time. I'll tell you what happened to me. When I decided to switch to a dsb, I removed my corals and LR. I discovered a colony of green button polys that had fallen down behind the rock that I had not noticed missing. They must have been behind the rock for over a year. They looked terrible. They were shriveled up and white as snow. When I got the DSB in and put the LR and coral back in, I placed this colony of button polys in a place with good lighting. In about two weeks they got their color back, opened up and now are one of the best looking colonies that I have.