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devin
10/25/2002, 04:04 PM
Hi all - I too live in St. Louis and I am getting started with a reef tank. I currently have a 60gal tank with 330 watts VHO (installing lights tonight) - tank is new with 60lbs cured live rock. I want ot get started with some basic stuff and I am looking for a good source of mushrooms (blue) and zoanthids?

From what I've read here on RC about mushrooms is that they can tolerate some nitrates in the water, so do I still need to wait six months or so to put them in my tank? Or will they be okay after my tank cycles maybe six to eight weeks???

thanks

Devin

Saltgills
10/25/2002, 08:00 PM
Hi Devon,
Sounds like you are putting together a nice reef.
It has been my experience that mushrooms can survive significantly high levels of nitrates. (Not that I recommend that).

Overall, I think mushrooms are a great choice for a first coral in a new tank. I do have a thought about your lights and mushrooms. I too use VHO; however, I find that the mushrooms in my tanks with VHO lights clearly prefer to be on the bottom of the tank and even slightly shaded.

Jim