Mushrooms- Do I need to add Iodine?

[chrisbenavides]

I bought some mushrooms yesterday, about 5 of them, and came about some articles on the net that I needed to add Iodine as a supplement to the tank. Is this true?

I do have Kent's Iodine, but have not been adding it for a while for fear that it may cause an algae bloom. I am using a Remora AquaC skimmer, and wondered if the skimmer was skimming out iodine, and strontium.

Do you think I should add Iodine?

THANKS!!!
- Chris

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[chrisbenavides]

by the way, does adding iodine promote algae blooms? the good kind or bad kind? when I first started using it, about 2-3 months ago, I noticed more coralline algae, but I was afriad to use it and it backfiring on me cause bad algae. So ever since I have not used much of it at all, but now I am reading that mushrooms need a bit of iodine.

wanted to know if this was true. thanks!!!

 

[BadRoma1]

i just discovered the answer to adding stronium and iodine myself. you do not ever have to add stronium to your system, because you do not add anything to your tank that you can't test for, and stronium in overdozed amount is toxic, also only little amount of stronium is used by everything in your reef, and whatever comes in your regular salt is plenty. iodine also can be toxic if overdozed, so you must test for it, if you do not test for it, it's better not to add any. my corals started looking much better and bigger few weeks after i stoped adding stronium and iodine and just started doing water changes every two weeks and handfeeding my corals. good luck!

 

[bertoni]

Iodine might be useful to some algae to grow. It's not useful for your mushrooms, though. I don't dose it, and I have way too many mushroomc orals.

 

[BadRoma1]

i'm not a pro, but i do not think that iodine causes bad algae blooms. but too much phosphorate can cause all kinds of algae blooms. too much phosphorate is from overfeeding for the most part.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Like bertoni, I don't does iodine and my 75 is overrun with mushrooms.

 

[eddie c]

randy from the chemistry forum doesn't recommend dosing iodine, so i don't do it and my shrooms grow like crazy.

 

[Amphiprion]

I only dose Calcium in my tank, and I am in the same boat as Bertoni and Toddtrex.

 

[zenzence]

Mushroom help

Mushroom help

I have a 90 gallon SPS tank and wanted to add some mushrooms to the the tank. I have some frilly mushrooms that grow out of controll they are bueatiful. Then I got some blue mushrooms and they shrunk down to nothing I have tried everything from moving them from the top to the bottom low current high current and they jsut wont grow. Whats the deal? Any suggestions from anyone would be outstanding

thanks

 

[Paintbug]

Re: Mushroom help

Re: Mushroom help

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6619312#post6619312 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Amphiprion
I only dose Calcium in my tank, and I am in the same boat as Bertoni and Toddtrex.

same here. i dose Randy's 2 Part myself to buffer the calc and alk. Iodine is a very risky element to add. theres way to many forms of it in NSW, and not alot is really known about its uses. some people will say that crustaceans will use it when molting. one thing is for sure Iodine is very toxic to your tank and a slight overdose could wipe it out. the best way to handle Iodine is with water changes.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6619792#post6619792 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by zenzence
I have a 90 gallon SPS tank and wanted to add some mushrooms to the the tank. I have some frilly mushrooms that grow out of controll they are bueatiful. Then I got some blue mushrooms and they shrunk down to nothing I have tried everything from moving them from the top to the bottom low current high current and they jsut wont grow. Whats the deal? Any suggestions from anyone would be outstanding

thanks

we are going to need some more info on your setup whats your water parameter? what kind of lighting? what size of tank?

 

[Fignewton]

Remember Iodine is easy to add to a tank, almost impossible to get out. I add a capful a week to my 75. I have about 70 Mushrooms. (I started with 5 about 8 months ago) I use it mostly for my shrimp and to promote coraline growth, which I think it does.

 

[zenzence]

Ok No problem

I have

90 gal reef tank
2x175 MH
2x96 PC
Amonium 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrates 10-15
PH 8.0 A little Low
Calcium 480-500
Alk 3.0-5.0

One 6000 stream pump
One TurbelleÃ"šÃ‚® Electronic Pump

Refugium with Chaetomorpha

I placed the blue mushrooms at the bottom of the tank and they just will not grow. I really want to save them but damn I have tried everything.

Thanks

 

[bertoni]

All in all, the parameters you list are reasonable.

The calcium is rather high, IMO. 400-450 is a reasonable range. That won't hurt the mushrooms, or anything else, though. It might waste some calcium supplement, if you're adding any.

The alkalinity numbers are in meq/L? If so, 5 is quite high. I target 3.5. I don't think that would bother the mushrooms, but one side effect of moving the alkalinity to 5 meq/L might be a pH spike.

What is the SG and how are you measuring it?


Ooops, we're hijacking this thread. Perhaps you could start a new one?

 

[zenzence]

please help see blue mushrooms bertoni


Chad

 

[bertoni]

Have you tried the coral forum? I can't figure it out.

Do you run carbon? What other corals are in the tank?

 

[dastratt]

Maybe you could try placing them in shadow of the MH

Just a thought

 

[dastratt]

I mean, a vertical placement or under a slight overhang