Hello all,
Please forgive the picture quality...
I seem to be hit or miss with mushrooms in my tank. I've been running my system for about 6 months now and am having a heck of a time with a few mushrooms.
Tank parameters:
Solaris I4 light
Nitrates/Nitrites/Ammonia unreadable
Salinity 1.025-1.026 (refractometer/salinity probe)
Calcium ~390
dKh ~8
ph 8.0-8.15 (I have to dose w/ kalk in my topoff to keep in this range)
I had posted earlier about a batch of purple mushrooms with tiny blue spots that was bleaching. I've moved them to a shadier place on the side and they seem to be looking better. Interestingly enough, any mushrooms from this colony that have come loose or split and attached elsewhere in the tank (bright or dim) look GREAT.
I have a colony of red mushrooms that previously were looking pretty dismal that are now gorgeous:
But, I've purchased two colonies of mushrooms from an LFS that just haven't ever opened back up nicely, and one of the two colonies looks to be slowly withering away:
I've tried moving them to a shadier part of the tank, tried putting them closer to the water flow, and everything inbetween.
Can anyone identify these and perhaps give me a clue? They appear to be puking brown goo from their innards, which seems less than good. I *could* move them to a much shadier part of the tank and ignore them for a few weeks... not sure what to do.
When they were open they resembled a ricordea hitchhiker on a rock right beside them. The ricordea is completely happy with the location and lighting.
I add a weekly iodine dose, have a continuous water change running at about ~20% a week, have a calcium reactor running really slowly (high level is set at pH of 7.5 just because I was finding my alk and calcium levels really high previously and I already have trouble keeping my pH up). I spot feed with coral frenzy (?) about twice a week. I add DT's phytoplanton about 3 times a week. Nothing else.
Aside from these mushrooms, I've had some snails and a fish die. That's been the worst of it. The Solaris lighting is at 65% right now because the tank is very shallow and at 100% nothing seemed happy.
Thank you everyone! I greatly appreciate the responses I've gotten on these forums and hope that someday I can offer advice on a topic to someone
.
Best wishes,
John
Please forgive the picture quality...
I seem to be hit or miss with mushrooms in my tank. I've been running my system for about 6 months now and am having a heck of a time with a few mushrooms.
Tank parameters:
Solaris I4 light
Nitrates/Nitrites/Ammonia unreadable
Salinity 1.025-1.026 (refractometer/salinity probe)
Calcium ~390
dKh ~8
ph 8.0-8.15 (I have to dose w/ kalk in my topoff to keep in this range)
I had posted earlier about a batch of purple mushrooms with tiny blue spots that was bleaching. I've moved them to a shadier place on the side and they seem to be looking better. Interestingly enough, any mushrooms from this colony that have come loose or split and attached elsewhere in the tank (bright or dim) look GREAT.
I have a colony of red mushrooms that previously were looking pretty dismal that are now gorgeous:
But, I've purchased two colonies of mushrooms from an LFS that just haven't ever opened back up nicely, and one of the two colonies looks to be slowly withering away:
I've tried moving them to a shadier part of the tank, tried putting them closer to the water flow, and everything inbetween.
Can anyone identify these and perhaps give me a clue? They appear to be puking brown goo from their innards, which seems less than good. I *could* move them to a much shadier part of the tank and ignore them for a few weeks... not sure what to do.
When they were open they resembled a ricordea hitchhiker on a rock right beside them. The ricordea is completely happy with the location and lighting.
I add a weekly iodine dose, have a continuous water change running at about ~20% a week, have a calcium reactor running really slowly (high level is set at pH of 7.5 just because I was finding my alk and calcium levels really high previously and I already have trouble keeping my pH up). I spot feed with coral frenzy (?) about twice a week. I add DT's phytoplanton about 3 times a week. Nothing else.
Aside from these mushrooms, I've had some snails and a fish die. That's been the worst of it. The Solaris lighting is at 65% right now because the tank is very shallow and at 100% nothing seemed happy.
Thank you everyone! I greatly appreciate the responses I've gotten on these forums and hope that someday I can offer advice on a topic to someone
. Best wishes,
John
