Toadstool Not Opening

[MossyFroggyLove]

Hey guys, I got a toadstool about a month ago. It was doing great for... I think 2-3 weeks maybe, not sure.

But then it closed. I thought it would open back up but it didnt. It looked like it was shedding so i left it as it is. Then i spoted some algae growing on it and i couldnt blast it off with a turkey baster. It has been closed for a little over a week now.

All the other corals are doing good (except for my goni which is suffucating in gha).

 

[MossyFroggyLove]

Hey guys, I got a toadstool about a month ago. It was doing great for... I think 2-3 weeks maybe, not sure.

But then it closed. I thought it would open back up but it didnt. It looked like it was shedding so i left it as it is. Then i spoted some algae growing on it and i couldnt blast it off with a turkey baster. It has been closed for a little over a week now.

All the other corals are doing good (except for my goni which is suffucating in gha).

 

[ScottF]

The one time that I had issues like that with a toadstool was right after I had used phosguard (granular aluminum oxide) for the first and only time and it leached a bunch of aluminum into my water. Probably not your issue, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

 

[MossyFroggyLove]

The one time that I had issues like that with a toadstool was right after I had used phosguard (granular aluminum oxide) for the first and only time and it leached a bunch of aluminum into my water. Probably not your issue, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

Interesting

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Seeing it right beside a bubble coral makes me think its a positioning issue. Toadstool likes higher light and flow than bubble coral. It is flexible with light, but it needs flow. I can see the detritus building on the toadstool, it needs good water movement.

 

[Tahoe61]

Have you tried increasing the flow in the direction of the coral?

 

[MossyFroggyLove]

Hey guys. So thats a cynarina, not a bubble coral, but i think the requirements are the same. I am going to get a new wavemaker today. I will try to move the toadstool to higher light and higher flow. I will also try to ask some opinions from my lfs.

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

Kinda looks like a Fox coral more than a cyanaria but I don't think that's affecting it.

Take some accurate Alk/Cal/Mag/NO3/PO4/Salinity measurements and post those. I have had a weeping willow toadstool kinda do that same thing and 1-2 weeks later it's back to it's normal self.

 

[MossyFroggyLove]

Kinda looks like a Fox coral more than a cyanaria but I don't think that's affecting it.

Take some accurate Alk/Cal/Mag/NO3/PO4/Salinity measurements and post those. I have had a weeping willow toadstool kinda do that same thing and 1-2 weeks later it's back to it's normal self.

Yeah..., i dont have those measurements yet. No3 is 10 and salinity is 1.024-1.025. I will take it as 1.0245. Others i dont have yet but i am planning to buy it soon. My lfs asked me to brush the detritus off and place it in higher flow so thats what i did. Hoping it would open back up soon.
Edit:p04 is 0.3

 

[MossyFroggyLove]

Sorry i did not update. The r2r web was kinda laggy and glithcy but its fine right now. Anyways, the toadstool has started to open up on tuesday, or was it monday, not sure. But it almost fully open now.