groucheux
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I bought a piece of lr at my lfs the other day that had 4 or 5 mushrooms and a small patch of yellow polyps. During the first 5 or 6 hours, the polyps were open and seemed to be doing fine, but I haven't seen them since! The "mat" is still there, but they won't open. The mushrooms are fine and I have a large rock that has green star polyops on it that opens daily. Does anyone have any ideas on what happened and/or how to rescue the yellow polyps? The only think I can think of is that I might have rushed the aclimation process, but like I said, the shrooms are fine, and I have always heard that polyps are hardy little things.
Here are the details on the tank...55 gallons, a bunch of lr, 2 damsels and 3 green chromis, 1 banded shrimp, 1 camel, several turbos and 10 or 20 blue and red legged hermits.
Levels are all okay, except my nitrates are a little high (20-30), and my sg was at 1.024 (i was gone on vacation and evaporation did it's thing). BTW...is a 20 or 30 reading on nitrates awful?
I have 120 watts on the tank. I put the lr about halfway up, with light water flow.
INcidentally, 5 or 6 months ago I bought some button polyps and they did the same thing...just closed up and never opened again!
thanks...grouch
Here are the details on the tank...55 gallons, a bunch of lr, 2 damsels and 3 green chromis, 1 banded shrimp, 1 camel, several turbos and 10 or 20 blue and red legged hermits.
Levels are all okay, except my nitrates are a little high (20-30), and my sg was at 1.024 (i was gone on vacation and evaporation did it's thing). BTW...is a 20 or 30 reading on nitrates awful?
I have 120 watts on the tank. I put the lr about halfway up, with light water flow.
INcidentally, 5 or 6 months ago I bought some button polyps and they did the same thing...just closed up and never opened again!
thanks...grouch
