mushrooms ejecting filaments...why?

GroYurOwn

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i know its because they are stressed, the weird thing is they have been doing perfectly fine for about five months. yesterday i received a colony of gold shrooms, and a colony of moon polyps from reefermadness. i drip acclimated them, placed them in the tank, i did not put any bag water into my tank, but shortly after placing them in the tank my green bullseyes all ejected their filaments (i think thats what the intestine things are called), and a single hairy mushroom that i had a half tank length away did too. they remained that way all day yesterday, and still have a little sticking out this morning.

so my guess, since no water params changed, is that maybe the moon polyps are releasing palytoxins into the water? i moved them several times to place them. did a gallon (10%) water change. weird thing is the cleaner shrimp, the brittle star, the maxima, and the rock anemone are all showing zero signs of stress...so i am thinking about going and picking up a hob filter to run carbon through, was going to do it anyway, just not yet. anybody think the palytoxin theory could be right, or any other ideas? this colony has been doing great and i would hate to lose it. thanks.
 
Maybe they are pooping. My ricordea and hairy mushroom will shrink down and excrete brown "poop" from time to time. Next day they are fine.
 
I have green hairy mushrooms that have do the same thing from time to time. A long white threadlike string that comes from the mouth on the disc. It just retracts and they go back to normal. I never thought to comment on this until I saw this post. Why? I have no idea, but they always go back to normal and they are a healthy colony that is growing.
 
well, i think i found the problem. i had to move my moon polyps again, and once again the shrooms ejected their stuff. so i went out and bought a whisper HOB carbon filter for 10$ at wal-mart, ran it all night, the next day all was good. so i think my shrooms are more sensitive to the palytoxins that the polyps were releasing, and since no one is offering any different explanations, i believe i am right.
 
If the mushroom is secreting a brown substance or fillaments, it could be the symbotic "algae" zooanthellae that is being expelled. Some corals do that when stressed, like from shipping, being in new water or under new lights. From what I have read, some corals will expell certian strains of zooanthellae and "swap" it out for another strain. So, it could mean the coral (mushroom) is stressed, but not necessarily "bad" or deadly. Just keep an eye on it.
 
One of my dose this very thing everytime I do a water change!! but is fine after half a day!! If they stay like that, you need to find out what has changed before to make it do this... A new fish , water, light.. Or at night?! In our little 46gl, a whole new world comes out at night!! And some are not nice! We had a big brissle worm going after things. Good luck
 
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