Suddenly Unhappy Mushrooms

[Wingnutt021]

The past few days my mushrooms have not been blooming, and today are regurgitating themselves into the water. Here are the water parimeters:

Temp 80
sal 1.026
trates 10
trites 0
ph 8.4
alk 4.5 or 225ppm
cal 345
phosphates 0

My other mushrooms and zoas in the tank are doing very well.

any ideas?

 

[Wingnutt021]

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[Brian5000]

They might do that if an animal was stomping all over them at night, and they aren't used to it.

Also, mushrooms are very sensitive to any change in conditions (temp, pH, salinity, etc.). Even if you're adjusting for the better, they look unhappy while they adapt to the new conditions.

Otherwise, maybe they're in an area with too much flow (or too little).

These are just guesses, but maybe...
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[Anonymous]

Too much flow would be a possibility, however they tend to extend further and become larger with less flow.

I wouldn't worry about it wingy as long as your parameters are in line. Move the colony to another location and give it a few days.

 

[Wingnutt021]

Move the colony to another location and give it a few days.


That's exactly what I did!

 

[Wingnutt021]

It has been more than a week and they still aren't blooming during the day

 

[Anonymous]

Move them to a low light, low current spot.

 

[Wingnutt021]

still not looking good....

i moved them again this time into a dimmer area of the tank and the least flow... stay tuned

 

[mr_X]

how long have you had this colony?
what changes, if any have you done to the tank...new bulbs..some reactor media..cleaning bio balls...anything.......?

 

[Wingnutt021]

The colony was the first thing I put in the tank about 3 months ago. I never moved it until this started happening.

I did put in a bit of Fluval's phosphate remover about a month ago. The colony was fine for a while after putting it in and then one day it just stopped blooming.

I did add a couple of nassarius snails and a fighting conch or two right around the time the colony stopped flourishing.

Everything else in the tank is doing very, very well, so its not a water quality issue...

 

[Anonymous]

Did you add a coral "upstream" to them in the flow?

 

[Wingnutt021]

That was something else I thought of. I did recently move a zoa colony within close proximity a few days before things went south. The spot I moved it to have yellow polyps near by, but in a 10 gal. tank everything is in close quarters...

 

[Anonymous]

That was something else I thought of. I did recently move a zoa colony within close proximity a few days before things went south. The spot I moved it to have yellow polyps near by, but in a 10 gal. tank everything is in close quarters...

That's my guess.

 

[Anonymous]

I find that unlikely, but you never know.

The reason is that the Corallimorpharians are not generally susceptible to this sort of thing, even in VERY small tanks, where every coral is exposed to toxins from every other coral regardless of placement. Second, zoathinds are generally not troublesome in this regard anyway.

None of this doesn't mean that your particular shrooms are not being bothered by the placement of a zoo colony, but this would be an anomalous event to say the least.

Jim

 

[Wingnutt021]

NOTHING is helping

 

[kaskiles]

I doubt this has anything to do with it, but I remember reading that the aluminum oxide based phosphate absorbers can stress soft corals. I think there is something about fully rinsing the absorber prior to use so that particles of aluminum oxide do not float out and settle on the coral...

 

[Wingnutt021]

When I use the phosphate remover, I made sure to thoroughly rinse it before putting it in the filter.

I took it out completely about a week ago but still no help for the mushrooms