Can I get some help ID'ing these?

[xdfireguy]

I am not the greatest photographer, but hopefuly you can make this out. They are about the size of a quarter.

 

[coral keeper]

They look like bleached hairy mushrooms to me.

 

[xdfireguy]

I was told that they were some sort of mushroom. Bleached meaning too much light or a description? Should I drop them to the bottom/give them shade? I have a couple others on a rock in my QT that is under a FW flourecent bulb and they are the same color.

 

[coral keeper]

It is a hairy mushroom. Bleached means its dead/dieing. The ones in your QT tank wont last long under the FW fluorescent lighting.

 

[coral keeper]

What kind of lighting do you have over your tank?

 

[xdfireguy]

150w MH + 2 18w PC actinics

 

[xdfireguy]

Hmm, is it too late to save them? Perhaps I can put this rock under the "cave" and give it full shade.

 

[coral keeper]

You might be able to save them. Leave them where they are right now. How long have you had them for?

 

[viper_930]

Keep them in the light and don't put them in the shade and they'll recover nicely

 

[xdfireguy]

They've been there for 5 days or so. Other than the very tips, I never did notice any significant color to them. I "inherited them" and only saw them at night, closed up. So I really don't have a "before" picture to go by.

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by ViPeR_930
http:///forum/post/2622537
Keep them in the light and don't put them in the shade and they'll recover nicely
I agree, you can angle them like a backslash to the light, most mushrooms seem to do really well angled to the light source, but you dont want to keep moving them around to find the "perfect spot" thats about the most stressfull thing you can do to a coral.