Leather mushrooms issues

[Alashley]

Agree. It's too much light. Can you control the blues intensity?
Mushrooms can position themselves. I'd put them on the bottom in shade, and just let them go where they like.

Yes, I can adjust my lighting. I currently use R420R LED 320 watt 15000K Lighting System - Maxspect.
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/r420r-led-320watt-15000k-lighting-system-maxspect.html
I do not use a preset as I feel the lights are on for too long so I have adjusted them but perhaps not as well as I should have? That is always a possibility.

 

[Alashley]

Yes a lack of food/visible algae will certainly do in snails.. They need food..

I would get another shroom and place it in the shade under a rock overhang or whatever you can do and see how it does..
I'll buy into your 3rd times a charm

I got another mushroom I've uploaded it. It was opened at the lfs and started opening last night and showing its tentacles but hasn't yet this morning.


Water parameters April 15
Calcium-460
KH-10
PH/all-8
Phosphate-0
Nitrate:0
Salinity:1.026

 

[jayball]

You really need to stop call it a mushroom, some of the advice is not correct because of it.

The common name for that coral is toadstool leather, it likes strong random flow and high lighting (after some acclimation). Mushrooms (Corallimorpharia) like more gentle flow and low light. toadstools are typically hardy in most conditions (excluding the yellow figi toadstool) but if it is not getting enough flow that could do it in. what do you have for in tank circulation?

 

[Alashley]

You really need to stop call it a mushroom, some of the advice is not correct because of it.

The common name for that coral is toadstool leather, it likes strong random flow and high lighting (after some acclimation). Mushrooms (Corallimorpharia) like more gentle flow and low light. toadstools are typically hardy in most conditions (excluding the yellow figi toadstool) but if it is not getting enough flow that could do it in. what do you have for in tank circulation?

Maxspect Gyre. Where the toadstool mushroom is currently is high flow and not a lot of lighting for him as he is under an overhang area.

 

[nereefpat]

toadstool mushroom

NOT A THING!! IT'S NOT A MUSHROOM! IT'S A LEATHER! Toadstool leather if you will. Despite being soft corals, they prefer higher light and higher flow.

 

[kidA]

Last tank I saw with the most successful spawning of neon leathers was lower light/lower quality LED strip lighting (i.e. many LEDs/low wattage), with (2) strips of actinics on all night and was what they all call a dirtier tank, or one quite high in nitrates ~40 ppm.

I keep a few myself in a lower nutrient tank as a test for other experiments, but they do not appear to thrive in it nor spawn.

 

[Alashley]

NOT A THING!! IT'S NOT A MUSHROOM! IT'S A LEATHER! Toadstool leather if you will. Despite being soft corals, they prefer higher light and higher flow.

Thanks, I understand that. Do you have any advice as to why I am not able to keep the toadstool in my tank without it melting away within a week or so? The one I just purchased looks to be doing the same thing again and my water parameters are good:
Salinity: 1.026
Cal: 460
KH: 10
PH: 8
Phosphate:0
Nitrate:0