Melting away HELP

[DrPropa]

I have a group of about 60 blue/purple discosoma mushrooms. They propagate them selves regularly and occasionally I slice them up for trading. In the past 3 days I would say the group or mushrooms are down to half. They appear to be melting into brown stringy mucus and weathering away. I have been sucking the gunk out with air line tubing easily because the stuff sticks to the rock. So far it seems that just the blue mushrooms r dieing: but some of the other discosomos in the tank are starting to look a little smaller. They are not melting. Anyone have any idea what causes this and how to fix the damage. I wanted to get ride of some of them; but not this way.

 

[ek9vboi]

Have you changed any lights recently? Old bulbs? Anything new that was added?

 

[DrPropa]

All I have added since the melting six line wrass, one new sps frag. I have done water changes the past two nights removing the gunk. Today things are starting to look better. I lost a fungia yesterday because some of that melted mushroom was stuck on it

 

[jpgwold]

I do not know if you have made any progress on this but I think that this article on Brown Slime Disease might help you.

http://www.netpets.com/fish/healthspa/corbac.html