Growth explosion please??

[justy]

Thanks Andrew it's something I have suspected for a long time but done nothing about, as it would mean a complete removal of all rock and a rescale with mostly new rock. I do run two litres of siporax so that would help with the transition.
I have put some carbon on this week to see if there was any toxins being released.
Thanks
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[biggles]

That's a very pretty reef you have going there

My first SPS reef wallowed for a year until a friend told me to remove the mushrooms i had all over the place. It was a major rescape to clean the red, blue and purple shrooms out but a month later the acros started waking up at last and growing.
Can't promise anything amazing but i'm certain those shrooms are doing your acros harm and things will be better with them gone.

Keep us updated mate.

 

[justy]

Thanks for the confirmation of what I have suspected for a while. I will just have to pluck up the courage to do the rescale.
Thanks for your kind comments and replies.
Justin

 

[markalot]

Hi Anybody have experience with large green button polyps and purple mushrooms being toxic to sps?

Many thanks

YES, the green button polyps are a plague, I just went through the painful experience of eliminating them. If bumped or smashed they produce a toxin that can do damage to any SPS that the brown smoke floats into.

If you can eliminate them now before they become a problem. IMO.

Now biggles tells me about the shrooms.

 

[justy]

Yes Mark they lure you in and then bang they have taken over. Had you noticed slower growth when you had them in your tank or was it just when you disturbed then.
Thanks

 

[markalot]

Yes Mark they lure you in and then bang they have taken over. Had you noticed slower growth when you had them in your tank or was it just when you disturbed then.
Thanks

Well, the caveat is I'm never 100% sure about anything but over the last 6 months I had some acros that would refuse to color up, show signs of stress, odd discolored areas, and very rough and splotchy skin on the bottom side.

Since removing all the polyps and doing a massive rescape these symptoms have vanished, but I have a ways to go to get good color back.

This is my maricultured valida. The front branch, bottom of the picture, suddenly started to lighten and show the roughed up skin after I covered some of the polyps with epoxy. This was the last straw that caused me to re-build half the tank.

In this picture it's been 2 weeks since the re-scape and you can just barely see that the branches in front are lighter. Skin is nice and thick and back to being healthy.

 

[biggles]

Flubber - don't turn your back on it or it'll knife your acros.............

 

[justy]

Flubber - don't turn your back on it or it'll knife your acros.............

Your right there daft thing is I've been keeping tanks for over 30 years you would of thought I would of known better:sad2: every days a school day:rollface:

Great valida! I've been following your rescape closely.
Will be worth all the effort once everything settles down.

Thanks justin