Help with a coral

[Bleigh]

Whenever you buy a new coral always start it off on the sand in a lowish light and flow area then you can slowly move it up to its final position over a couple of weeks. Mushrooms are pretty hardy and it should come round. If it doesn’t start to regain its health over the next couple of days then try this.
Get a small Tupperware (not sure if they are called Tupperware in the states but I mean a small plastic food tub) and put some live rock rubble in the bottom. Place the mushroom on top of the rock rubble and place on the sand in a lowish flow area of your tank. Over the next week or so the mushroom should reattach to one of the pieces of rock. Once you are happy you can then glue or cement the rock where you would like it to go. Hope that all makes sense.

Shaun.

It’s called a Tupperware. He is attached to a small piece of rock. It was the rock he was on at the lfs. I had just wedged it in a crack. I moved that rock down to just on top of the sandbed. If he’s not looking better in a day or two, I’ll put him in a Tupperware just to reduce flow even more.

 

[Bleigh]

That's funny my little boy kisses the glass to trying to kiss a fish. Now on the mushroom if you can get a small Tupperware like 3"×3" and cut some holes on the side put some Rubble or small Rock in it and just set the mushroom inside of it. It will eventually attached itself to some of the Rock Rubble. Mushrooms are probably one of the easiest corals of all to keep they don't mind if the water is dirty they actually like it they just don't like high flow so sandbed is the easiest. My profile picture is actually my 29 BioCube before I tore it down. Also one thing to keep in mind is not all tanks are the same what works in one tank might not work in the other. In my 180 I have high flow and my blue lights are on for 16 hours yet my mushrooms are super happy some are on the sand bed and some are higher up in the rocks

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You have some beautiful tanks!!! Should I keep the blue on for a longer period of time? I’m assuming by blue light you mean the moon light and not the us light. I’ve already reduced the photoperiod by a few hours and moved him lower in the tank.

 

[Orko]

Bleigh your tank looks great sometimes it takes time for corals mushrooms any frag that gets moved from one tank to anther some time to get over the stress from the move your takk looks very well taken care of and happy I am sure it will bounce back ..

 

[Dom]

It’s a 29 gallon biocube. I could probably move it, but not sure how much lower it could go. The bulb is really old too. I didn’t change it out cause I had another that started bleaching when I first put it in, but it didn’t stay that way. I figured the light can’t be bad if it’s still too bright. And I can’t imagine what a new bulb would be doing.

Understand that as bulbs age, the spectrum of light they put out changes. Can you please post some info on the light you're using?