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Tank water: 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, almost 10ppm nitrates.
Lighting: 1 - 50/50 PC 110 watt light
1 - 50/50 40 watt light
12 hours a day for each.
I recently added some mature (large) green button polys to my tank. In the LFS, they look great, open wide etc under what I would consider very dim lighting. (I thought corals needed a lot light!) I have had them for a few days now and they won't open. This happened once before when I bought some live rock with a few polyps on it. Same thing, nice and open in the LFS, closed in my tank.
I have some mushroom coral and it is doing well. It expands as the light turns on in the morning and slowly closes up at night, just before my lights go off.
Any thought why my mushroom would do so well, but I can't get these "hardy" green button polyps to open.
Oh, they seem to have formed a slime on them too. Not good I bet.
I don't test for phosphates, but I do regular water changes. I suppose my tap water could have phosphates, but again, why would my mushroom coral thrive if I had high phosphates.
Thanks in advance.
Lighting: 1 - 50/50 PC 110 watt light
1 - 50/50 40 watt light
12 hours a day for each.
I recently added some mature (large) green button polys to my tank. In the LFS, they look great, open wide etc under what I would consider very dim lighting. (I thought corals needed a lot light!) I have had them for a few days now and they won't open. This happened once before when I bought some live rock with a few polyps on it. Same thing, nice and open in the LFS, closed in my tank.
I have some mushroom coral and it is doing well. It expands as the light turns on in the morning and slowly closes up at night, just before my lights go off.
Any thought why my mushroom would do so well, but I can't get these "hardy" green button polyps to open.
Oh, they seem to have formed a slime on them too. Not good I bet.
I don't test for phosphates, but I do regular water changes. I suppose my tap water could have phosphates, but again, why would my mushroom coral thrive if I had high phosphates.
Thanks in advance.