What is my ricordea doing?

[Vinh]

Tonight I notice my ric close up as you see in the pic below (sorry for bad pic). It then slowly opened up again. As I'm writing this I just noticed it closed and opened up within a matter of minutes. This thing is very active tonight. Anyone know what's going on or is this just normal?

 

[FL_Reefer]

Could be eating something

 

[Vinh]

I suppose. But when I target feed it does not close up. It just stays open and its mouth leans toward the food and eats it. Never closes up like this.

 

[jasonandsarah]

Do you look at night often? I find my shrooms close up like this a lot when the lights first go out.

 

[ygon]

All shrooms exhibit that behavior. Usually it's because it's captured something it's trying to eat. Not all food will trigger that behavior. Mine will do that if I drop reef chili in but not for pellets.

 

[ms705jk]

To me it looks like it could be getting ready to move. In the picture the foot looks elongated. Atleast thats what they do in my tank. Its pretty cool. As they move a piece of the foot stays behind and another shroom is born!