Don't have much experience with them Carmie, but the ones Gwen sent me took 2 or 3 days to open.....
Yeah, I've heard that they can take a couple of days but we are at 5 days and not a glimmer. Do you think the polyps falling off means it is dying? Params are normal.
Doesn't sound too good. I haven't had any luck with GSP's. The LFS had an nice 2"x5" chunk I almost bought but I spotted sever aiptasia so I passed. I hate it when I see people post wanting to know how to keep the GSP from taking over the tank and I can't even get it to grow.
They may take a few more days to settle in. Be patient little one.
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First of all - beautiful tank. I really like how it's starting to fill in.
Regarding your GSP's, I was given a shell that was about 4" x 3" that was covered with GSP's. At the store, it was beautiful. When I brought it home, they all but disapeared. For several weeks, they looked very poor, with only some of them coming out. I tried various locations in the tank (high flow, low flow, high light intensity, low light intensity, etc.) Nothing seemed to help. Then one night I was looking at the tank after the lights had gone off and - low and behold - the star polyps were fully out. This went on for about a month - out during the night, in during the day. It was kind of like a newborn baby with his day / night schedule backwards!
Anyway, it's been about 3 months now, and the GSP's now look beautiful. They are out almost all of the time. And they are taking off - they are very lush and are starting to grow off the shell and onto the surrounding rock. So I guess my advice is to be patient. I know everyone says they are supposed to grow like a weed, but mine took several months before this starting happening.
FYI - mine like a location with medium water flow and fairly strong light.
Here is a new shot of my blue mushroom. One of them has fallen off the rock and I've stuck it in a cup with some rubble to re-attach. The little one (grain of rice size) has gotten about 3 times as big in just a couple of weeks. This is obviously not the little one!
The shroom and Chromis are both looking good, Carmie.
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Just remember, Mushrooms are a type of anemone and they will move, as anemones do from time to time. They will float around the tank until they find a place of low flow and attach. Beautiful Shroom
Whoa, hold on there girl. If you have it in a cup with enough small pieces of rock, it should attach to one and then you can (hopefully) super glue it to a larger rock and place it where you want it. I have one that I let roll around in the current and it attached under the LR and can't be seen with out standing on your head. Good luck with it.
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The really small partial one that I brought home was attached to the smallest sliver of rock and I super glued it to a big rock where it seems pretty happy. Or at least is it growing and becoming circular shaped again.
Anyhow I will leave this one, a full 'shroom a bit bigger than a pencil eraser, in the cup with the rubble. The cut off bottom of a dayglow orange cup really adds something to my tank!
yeah...that works to do it in a cup. And like Dick said, it's certainly better than letting it settle either under a rock, or worse get stuck in a pump! But, having said that, just because it sticks to the rock in the cup, it still may move around in the tank...but mostly just along the rocks. The biggest problem is, of course, if it gets attached to the cup!! Argh!!!
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