New Shrooms!

[timsedwards]

Hi Guys,
Well after a year of setting up my tank and getting over all the obstacles you can, i finally bought my first proper coral!
They are two knobbly mushrooms. I got them mailorder from London (3 hours away) as one LFS has shut down and the other's selection was pitiful! For both of them including shipping they cost £50, which is $75 or so. I know that is far more expensive than what you guys pay, but supply and demand I guess, and these guys are the cheapest!
Here are the pics of them, both arrived and were put in tank 1 and half hours ago. The bag was a bit too cold for my liking but one of them seems fine, the other a bit timid.
How long before they are their normal selves?
Tim.

 

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and again

 

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and the other set...still looking a bit dazed....

 

[timsedwards]

had to post this pic, notice my regal tang trying to get in the picture at the back! At the front you can see a few clove polyps that attached themselves to some LR.

 

[escape2thewater]

Congrats on your shrooms! Mine opened up fully the second day I had them, long into the photo period.
Good luck,
Kyle

 

[timsedwards]

Hi Guys,
The macro isnt bryopsis, i checked that out a while ago, not sure entirely what it is. Ill have a look on grassillaria. Either way the tang sure likes to chomp on it.
Tim.

 

[nerdy]

Got those exact ones.... Put a little iodine in once in a while and they will spread like wild fire

 

[overanalyzer]

sweet looking shrooms!! They are very hardy!

 

[kreach]

Cool shrooms! And your coraline growth looks awsome too!

 

[timsedwards]

Thanks guys!
They seem to be spending most of today expelling mucus of some description, much to the confusion of my clownfish, is this normal?
Tim.

 

[overanalyzer]

Yep - they are just sloughing off a slime coating that built up due to stress ... you could try blowing them gently with a turkey baster if you want to speed up the process - but personally I'd just let them go ... they've had aenough stress already!

 

[melissa v.]

Very nice, those are going to look great when they open.
Melissa v.

 

[steelchromis]

Very nice tim. I am hopefully going to purchase my first coral soon.

 

[beaslbob]

Originally posted by timsedwards
Hi Guys,
The macro isnt bryopsis, i checked that out a while ago, not sure entirely what it is. Ill have a look on grassillaria. Either way the tang sure likes to chomp on it.
Tim.
I vote for Gracilaria. My tank loves the stuff also.

 

[marinemarty]

dang if i could only get such deep colored corraline growth... Nice blues...
Martin