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    Don't have much experience with them Carmie, but the ones Gwen sent me took 2 or 3 days to open.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by wildeone View Post
    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.
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    Not sure...5 days does seem a bit much. I hope they are OK because I really think they are a great looking coral...

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    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.

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    They may take a few more days to settle in. Be patient little one.
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    Amblyeleotris randalli commonly, Randall's Goby.

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    Carmie -

    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.

    I wish you much success with your tank.

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    Thanks everyone. It's hard but I'll just be patient.
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    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!

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    Here is a shot of my chromis.
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    The shroom and Chromis are both looking good, Carmie.
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    the shrooms tend to move around a bit...at least mine do. I wouldn't worry if it's fallen off. it will find somewhere that it likes and attach there.
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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

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    So I should let it out of the cup and let it find its own place, right?
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    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!
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Reefbaby View Post
    The biggest problem is, of course, if it gets attached to the cup!! Argh!!!
    No problem, it's a nice natural color, no one would even notice! LOL
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    Here is another shot of my blue 'shroom:



    And my Candy Cane:

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    I love that blue shroom! When I brought mine home, Ileft it in a cup for 2 weeks, then super glued it. During the gluing a peice about the sized of a pencil eraser fell off ans went into a crevice. It has since grown 20 times the size it was and is almost a big as the mother piece. Now I have 2 more frags that it has dropped or produced.

    The tank looks awsome!

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    I have 2 little ones that are gorwing like crazy but aren't nearly as big as this one. How long did it take yours to get as big as the mother?
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    I would guestimate between 8 and 10 weeks. The are growing like weeds. I would love to trade you a red for one of yours sometime.

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    That would be great. Just as soon as I frag mine I will let you know.
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    Wink Cool new pix clown & BTA

    Here is a cool image of my maroon clown and BTA. The BTA is deflated and is about 5% of its actual size.

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    Great shot Carmie! Is the picture overexposed and that's why the stripes are rather yellow? Or is that the actual color of your clown?
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    Actually the picture is about 1 stop underexposed. However the clown's stripes are a light yellow color. It was not sold as a gold stripe and its stripes used to be whiter.
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