Help with my Hairy Shrooms :(

[05Xrunner]

I posted the wrong place before. I dont know what the deal with my hairy mushrooms are...they where fine for the first week I got them
Then they started to go down hill

Now my Xenia is thriving great, frogspawn, toadstool, candycane, zoas, suncoral, and gsp are all doing GREAT. Even the purple shrooms with blue dots are perfectly fine.

my water is
PH 8.2
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 5

I have an Orbit 260w PC fixture and 75gal tank
is this just something they do. or are they going down hill

Pic of when i got them

Here is a pic of them now

 

[BigScott]

try a lil more flo..

 

[05Xrunner]

they where in a pretty higher flow area..nothing..so i am trying a little less flow. I just made up 2 big bags of carbon....maybe something is in the water I cant test for that they are not liking. See what it does. I dont wanna lose em..they are one of my favorites

 

[psuedopimp]

when I first got mine, I lost about half of them for no apparent reason, now I can't kill them if I tried to. Yours look like mine do at night, all shriveled up. do you have hermits or anything that might be crawling on them?
PS do not smell the dying ones if you pull them out. the worst smell ever.

 

[05Xrunner]

LOL..I never planned on sniffing them.
I have 4 small hermits but they are never around them and they never open up though.

 

[Rockitmakr]

Strange....How can your Sun Polyps be doing so well & the Shrooms look like that?? I have Hairy Greens & they are bulletproof. What type of lighting are you using?
:beer:

 

[Rockitmakr]

Never mind.....Re-read original post......Try placing them closer to the light...
:beer:

 

[05Xrunner]

I was thinking the same thing...How can things that are alot mroe delicate like my sun coral, candycane and frogspawn doing great..but something thats supposed to be hardy are doing BAD...and its just them the regular mushrooms that are red with blue dots are doing just fine...its just my hairy mushrooms.

I have an Orbit 260w light

 

[05Xrunner]

I had them all over the tank..from up as high as they can go..wich was about 6-7" below the surface to the bottom..nothing seems to help

 

[Rockitmakr]

:crazy1:
Actually, from the first pic...They don't look like the best shrooms that I have seen, look at the oral opening on the shroom to the left. Looks a little strange to me, if they are stressed out they will spit out their guts. If they are sick, their mouth will just look open. Any other takers?
:beer:

 

[wantsalotta]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9242757#post9242757 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 05Xrunner
I had them all over the tank..from up as high as they can go..wich was about 6-7" below the surface to the bottom..nothing seems to help

How many times have you moved them, and how long did you let them sit between moves? With a very stressed coral like you have, it may take more than a few hours for them to adapt to new conditions. I would do a med/low flow, high light for the coral in question.

 

[05Xrunner]

Probably a day between moving

 

[Aliie]

YOUR SUN POLYP ROCKS!! Mine did the same thing when I moved them to the higher light and flow. Give it a few days in different spots until it says "when".

 

[05Xrunner]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9245403#post9245403 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aliie
YOUR SUN POLYP ROCKS!! Mine did the same thing when I moved them to the higher light and flow. Give it a few days in different spots until it says "when".

Yea I really like my Sun Coral..it has taken some time to get it to open but it was worth it.

 

[saltycreefer]

Have you tried a lugols dip on the mushrooms???
Those guys usually come in from shipping in fouled water.
Try dipping.

 

[05Xrunner]

I bought them off a Local RC memeber

 

[vanna101]

Have you tried feeding them yet?They are not too picky about placement,but when you find a place for them leave them there.My hairy mushrooms are sensitive to movement in the tank.Not water movement,but sensitive to my hand disturbing the water or glass cleaning ect.

Feeding will hopefully give them more energy and make up for any zooanthallae they may have lost during shipping/accliamtion.

I recommend keeping them on the sandbed or closer to the substrate.Do you know how much light the previous reefer was keeping them under? The mushrooms may also be getting acclimated to the higher intensity light.

 

[05Xrunner]

he had a 150MH and a 110VHO actinic

Feeding...how do i feed a mushroom..should I squirt some cyclopezee at their mouth

 

[vanna101]

You can feed them cyclopeeze,small pieces of shrimp(any kind as long as its raw),small pieces of marine feeder fish,even cyclopeeze pellets or shrimp pellets would work.

Since they are in a low flow area you shouldn't have any trouble feeding them.

just place a small piece of food near their mouth and let them do the rest

...if placing a piece of food on them doesn't work.Try touching the mushroom with the food couple of times to make them start bringing the edges of their disc towards their mouth then let them curl around the piece of food.

 

[05Xrunner]

I have a syringe I use to feed my sun coral. load it up with cyclopezee and squirt each head...Now would this same way work with the shroom or no. Do i have to hold something at their mouth.