Not Too Sure About These Mushrooms And Trumpet

[connorsbala]

Okay, i got these green mushrooms 3 weeks ago. Only a couple open half the way out...they have never opened fully. They get alot of light and not too much flow. What do you thinks wrong with them. Water stats:
Ammonia-0
Nitrate-10
pH-8.2
Calcium is usually around 400

Also, do any of you know what this is

And are my trumpets okay?

 

[connorsbala]

Could the mushroom be exsposed to too much light?

 

[SkiFletch]

Tough to say, the pics are too blurry

 

[Lynden]

Mushrooms only expand fully when they need to (to gather as much light as possible). They tend to live in low light conditions in the wild but most genera are fine in high or low light.

The glowing thing... I could be wrong be it looks like a leucistic Dendronepthea (or at least nothing zooxanthellate by the looks of it), an exceptionally difficult coral to keep alive, one of the most difficult of all in many people's eyes. Likes a laminar (concentrated, like from a maxijet) current and needs tons of food, but they are carnivores so phytoplankton is a poor choice. It could also just be a bleached branching soft coral, in this case keep it out of strong light and give plenty of food until it regains it's symbionts. Do not bother returning it as it has as good of chance in your tank as anyone else's.

Candy canes look fine to me, so does everything else.

 

[chrissaysyes]

The worse I treat my shrooms the more they reward me. I give mine no flow and not much lighting and it keeps them fully opened throughout the day. I use shrooms rocks for filler in the dark spot of the tank. They look cool all stretched out reaching for light. I also spot feed them brine sometimes...not sure if that makes a difference but they seem happy.