my first mushrooms...

[Cheeser]

ok this is what they looked like the first night i brought em home. ..

they actually looked bigger at the store. they shriveled up a bit in the bag. i took like 4 or 5 hrs acclimating the rock. ..after a couple hrs they looked like the above pic for the rest of the night.

i started em off at the bottom of my tank and moved my light more to the back to give em a bit of shade....and slowly gave em more light and moved em more toward the top as the day went on. i have a GLO t5. im not sure if its HO i bought it used. it has two bulbs.

this is what they look like now...

do they look ok? sometimes they look a little more spread out. i target fed em microvert one day and chromaplex a couple days later and they seemed to open up a bit more those days...

my anemone is doing great. looks healthier than ever.

i had the shrooms at the top of my tank for a while but i moved em more like to the middle so i can see how they look when i get home...
all my parameters are good...

any advice?

maybe i should move them to the bottom?

 

[NanoReefer]

your anemone will NOT be able to live with that low of lighting. i wouldnt feed the shrooms eaither. i think mine expand way more when i dotn feed.

 

[little_fish]

+1 Nano

The shrooms will be fine, the nem will not

 

[Cheeser]

crazy...so how long usually before the shrooms starts to look better? its been about a week. should i put them back to the top of my tank closer to the light?
and for the nem...he seems to be fine. i got him from a buddy with a 45gallon with a smaller version of the fixture that i have. he had the nem for like a year. i read a few places that the ltas dont really need a super bright light. but they do better in low to moderate lighting in an 'aged' tank...
should i get rid of him if he seems fine? ive had him for like a month. and he seems to like where hes at...

ill take some pics tonite... but...
is there anything i can do for my mushrooms to open up or should i just wait it out?
or are they not gonna get any better until i get better lighting?

 

[Cheeser]

also ...ill take a pic of my light fixture...
the guy i bought it off of had a 55 with a few hard corals in it and a few shrooms and polyps. im not too sure if he had a nem but i bought it cus i figured "this guy grew all this stuff with this fixture so i guess it should suffice."
i am saving my pennies though so i can invest in the marineland reef capable leds...

 

[little_fish]

Surviving and flourishing are not the same thing.


Also try putting the shroom where there is very little flow. Mine look that way when i hit them with a blast of water