Bleached Hairy Mushrooms

[sabbath]

I'm having trouble with my mushrooms starting to turn white. I had them in medium light and moved them to a lower light area and they are still getting whiter? Just moved it to high light area. What do you think the trouble is?

 

[aquarius77]

Whats your nitrates like?
What are your water parameters? Temp? Flow?

Alot of things can affect the coral, more information would be usefull.

 

[sabbath]

Hi aquarius77, My parameters are;
Nitrate 0
KH=10
Mag=1300
phos=.5 I'm trying things to get it down/I have fuge
PH 8.0-8.2
Ca=430
Temp 79-81deg
lighting is in sig.

 

[sabbath]

Oh yea the salinity is 1.023 with and ATO.
Circulation is a mag 7 from return and a MJ 400 in back of rock and a MJ 900 & 1200 at both ends. I'm waiting for 2 tunze nano 6025's to come in stock. To replace MJ's

 

[aquarius77]

I have no clue except maybe you gave them too much light? Do you have any pics ?


Here are my hairy shrooms, are they the same as yours? These babies are on the waters surface under a 150w HQI MH, they love the light in my tank.

 

[sabbath]

Your looks great! I like that the tips are green. I will take pic in a few hours when the halides come on. By what you said, and how yours looks I think I may have been going the wrong way, going away from the higher light levels. Looks like it is ok with good light under yours!

 

[sabbath]

Ist try at sending pic of whitey, here it goes.

 

[sabbath]

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/146204White_Hairy_shroom.jpg

 

[sabbath]

Take 3

 

[sabbath]

Here is 3 weeks ago. I moved this from old 24g nano with pc's a couple months ago.

 

[aquarius77]

You bleached those shrooms going from PC to MH, without a doubt.

My shrooms were acclimated to that much light by slowly raising them up. I have more of them in my sump under 96w PC. I had one on the bottom of the sump and moved it up 3/4 the way to the top and within a few days i noticed a few white tips. You got to change their light slow from what i can tell and the jump from pc to mh looks like it really took its toll on yours.

 

[sabbath]

Thanks for your replies. Do you think i should move it to a lower light area again or just leave it there?

 

[aquarius77]

Move it into the shade if at all possible, they should come back. Once they regain their color bring them out into some light, then over the course of a month or so move them where you are going to want to keep them.

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[sabbath]

I'll do that. Thanks

 

[aquarius77]

Feeding them should help them recover faster, if they will eat for you then feed them with some pellets or some meaty foods like mysis.

 

[sabbath]

I have never tried to feed them. I have some mysis so I will try that with a turkey baster. Yea, before it was close to my bubble tip and my perc would feed it sometimes. That could be contributor as well. Good Idea.