Is this a shroom or what???? Plz Help

[SaltwaterTeen]

What is this? looks like a shroom but I could be wrong, I didnt have any time to id it because it was hiddin from when I bought my buttons.

 

[fishfriends05]

to me it looks like Rhodactis inchoata, which is more commonly named a bullseye mushroom.

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

Well, it was alittle bigger than that but it has shrank for about a week, is it susposed to do that? Btw, I used to live in Utah and I was born there , Lived and born in ogden.

 

[fishfriends05]

shrooms will expand and contract for a lot of various reasons. To much lighting, not enough lighting, water quality, etc. I don't know how long you have had the mushroom but I have noticed that any time move or transport them, change lighting or water perameters that they will shrink down for a little while but will usually come back out with no adverse affects.
Btw, I just recently moved from ogden to clearfield just before christmas.

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

I have 440watts of lighting by vho, is that too much? I dont think so because my red shroom closed then opened back up.

 

[jackdp]

Mushrooms are pretty adaptive to lighting changes and I think 440 vho is on the high side but not too much. Most shrooms also don't like a lot of flow, so if you see it blowing around it may need to be relocated to a spot with lower flow.

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

he blows every few hours or so I would say, and the moving it part will be hard because my buttons need the light and the shroom is near the polyps but not too near.

 

[jackdp]

It doesn't sound like its getting too much flow. Give it some time and it will more than likely adapt to the new conditions.

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

yea the one on the pic has completely grown! its bottom is touching the lr, im so impressed on how much it grew! do i need to feed or does it grow like zoos