green toadstool leather
 

had this guy around 18-20 days and his polyps wont come out.he was practically smooth for the first ten days and now he looks like this.[img]http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/998toadstool2-thumb.JPG[img]is he ok?
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It looks like it is still o.k., but it also looks like it's going to take time to adjust to your tank. Do you have good water flow on it?

i have moderate flow on him now.and he was in a brighter spot in my tank.so i moved him down about 4 inches and took him out of a higher flow area.my tank is 33 gals with one 55 watt 10000k allglass pc and two t5,s one actinic 21 watt and one 6400k 39 watt.is this enough light and what would be the best food for him.kalk and live phyto are the only two things going in the tank right now on a constant basis and some coral excel about once a month.should i put him back in a brighter higher flow area and give it more time?

and how long can it take to adjust and extend its polyps?thanks

leathers can be finicky. im my old setup i had 8 leathers, some days they would all be open but usually a few would be closed and they would switch around who was open. my biggest leather was open for 8 months straight then closed for 3 months, i thought it was dying, woke up one morning and it looked amazing again. i wouldn’t sweat it, give it a few more weeks.

I had a leather that did not open up for alost two weeks after putting it into my tank and than it still took almost a week and a half before it started to look good. Its great now :smile:

sounds good guys ill give it a couple more weeks.thanks

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I fragged my toadstool a week ago and only 2 of the 3 fraggs are growing, the other is in a low flow area and has little polyp extension.

sorry i forgot to sya that this toadstool was a frag from another reefer on this board and i believe that it was only a week old when i got it making it roughly 3-4 weeks old.