Mushroom Colony suddenly dies...

[mikeguerrero]

I've had a mushroom colony green for about one year; it was transferred from my 3 gallon tru vu to my 72 gallon tank...

Here it was placed at the very bottom in the center of the tank. For months it grew and thrived...

Then since last 3 days I noticed it wasn't really opening to it's full potential. Then yesterday during the day I see that one by one each mushroom has disentegrated inside out...

A couple on the side were still alive and then the rest just went. The cleanup crew came in and clean the rock as it was covered in slime from the shrooms...

Another set up red shrooms way above it started the same behavior and out of the four that are there, one of them has sloughed away same case as the green ones...

The larger red shroom has shunned away on the side and is doing okay...

All other shrooms in the tank are doing fine...

Has anyone ever experienced something like this?

MG

 

[MrChico]

We are going to need to know your tank parameters.

temp.
salinity
ammonia
nitrite
nitrate

 

[mikeguerrero]

Temp set at 77 degrees via chiller; variance of 2 degrees as it's set on controller from 75.5 to 77.5.

Salinity 1.023

Ammonia 0

Nitrite 0

Nitrate 20 ppm, and I've been treating the tank with absolute zero nitrate for last 3 weeks straight. I haven't checked the nitrate since then...