a little back story in case it helps to ID
I was starting to get some Byropsis on my newest piece of live rock that has my mushrooms on it... So, i followed advice i'd seen and pulled it out. Since mushrooms can spend /some/ time out of water (i know, not long, but 10-15 min is ok), I pulled the rock out with them and byropsis on it. I then VERY carefully sprinkled Epsom Salt over the Byropsis, making sure not to get it on any of the corals or other parts of the rock so as not to kill the pretty feather dusters on it as well. I then manually removed as much byropsis as i could and then sprinkled more epsom salt until it turned into a paste. Then i waited 5 mins for it to absorb into the algae and rinsed it with salt water and place the rock back in the tank... Within the hour the byropsis has turned white and a large percentage of it already dead and fallen off the rock. So, that's where we stand... now the odd part...
So, lights out after this whole deal... I leave my actinics on and enjoying the glow effect from my mushrooms... I have 1 metallic green and 2 metallic red. The reds glow a bright hot pink / red color and are gorgeous. Then i notice about an inch to the side of my best mushroom (it was furthest from algae and unaffected as much. As well, the position on the rock seems to favor it for water flow ect... While the other two have had issues and not the BEST of health. They live, but this one THRIVES) there's fluorescing occurring. Whatever this is was obviously under some of the algae... Or decided to come out of the rock after it was removed... In either case, it's the same color as my favored mushroom. To the point i thought it was another mushroom since the largest part of it was in roughly the same shape... Then upon closer inspection of that i notice that it looks like little strands... Like worms or some such attached to the rock and even sticking out of it just slightly. Then there's another spot nearby that even looks almost like one of the feather dusters, but i've seen the feather dusters this entire time and non of them have glowed. Upong closer inspection, it's the middle set of pictures like a frond.
So, what could this be? A Macro Algae hiding below the byropsis? A worm in the rock attracted out by the treatment? Spores from the mushroom starting a new colony? The mushrooms are still tiny, only about the size of a dime for 2 and a nickel for the healthiest one.
I did actually loose the metallic green one trying to get the pictures. I had to move the rock closer to the glass and accidentally scraped it when the rock slipped. The "head" broke off the stem of the mushroom and floated off. It being so tiny when closed up (which of course it did) i couldn't find it even if it were salvageable.
These are pretty much all that i can think of that it may be...
The "worms" or tendril things that are coming out of the rock
The fan / possible macro algae that fluoresces? The pics with the bigger piece of macro algae, it's the smaller one at the top / middle of the pic
A small little circular piece of something. What i thought may have been a tiny little mushroom, but it's SMALL. I mean like 1/5th the size of a dime. Not dime sized
Another small tab looking bit
I was starting to get some Byropsis on my newest piece of live rock that has my mushrooms on it... So, i followed advice i'd seen and pulled it out. Since mushrooms can spend /some/ time out of water (i know, not long, but 10-15 min is ok), I pulled the rock out with them and byropsis on it. I then VERY carefully sprinkled Epsom Salt over the Byropsis, making sure not to get it on any of the corals or other parts of the rock so as not to kill the pretty feather dusters on it as well. I then manually removed as much byropsis as i could and then sprinkled more epsom salt until it turned into a paste. Then i waited 5 mins for it to absorb into the algae and rinsed it with salt water and place the rock back in the tank... Within the hour the byropsis has turned white and a large percentage of it already dead and fallen off the rock. So, that's where we stand... now the odd part...
So, lights out after this whole deal... I leave my actinics on and enjoying the glow effect from my mushrooms... I have 1 metallic green and 2 metallic red. The reds glow a bright hot pink / red color and are gorgeous. Then i notice about an inch to the side of my best mushroom (it was furthest from algae and unaffected as much. As well, the position on the rock seems to favor it for water flow ect... While the other two have had issues and not the BEST of health. They live, but this one THRIVES) there's fluorescing occurring. Whatever this is was obviously under some of the algae... Or decided to come out of the rock after it was removed... In either case, it's the same color as my favored mushroom. To the point i thought it was another mushroom since the largest part of it was in roughly the same shape... Then upon closer inspection of that i notice that it looks like little strands... Like worms or some such attached to the rock and even sticking out of it just slightly. Then there's another spot nearby that even looks almost like one of the feather dusters, but i've seen the feather dusters this entire time and non of them have glowed. Upong closer inspection, it's the middle set of pictures like a frond.
So, what could this be? A Macro Algae hiding below the byropsis? A worm in the rock attracted out by the treatment? Spores from the mushroom starting a new colony? The mushrooms are still tiny, only about the size of a dime for 2 and a nickel for the healthiest one.
I did actually loose the metallic green one trying to get the pictures. I had to move the rock closer to the glass and accidentally scraped it when the rock slipped. The "head" broke off the stem of the mushroom and floated off. It being so tiny when closed up (which of course it did) i couldn't find it even if it were salvageable.
These are pretty much all that i can think of that it may be...
The "worms" or tendril things that are coming out of the rock
The fan / possible macro algae that fluoresces? The pics with the bigger piece of macro algae, it's the smaller one at the top / middle of the pic
A small little circular piece of something. What i thought may have been a tiny little mushroom, but it's SMALL. I mean like 1/5th the size of a dime. Not dime sized
Another small tab looking bit
