CrayolaViolence
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I bought a rock of purple mushrooms that when I got it was in a small nano tank with a kenya tree an minimal light. When I brought it home I put it in the shadiest part of my tank but the mushrooms never would spread. I have other mushrooms in my tank that have no issues and spread nicely daily. Fast forward a week or so, no change in the mushrooms. While moving some things around I had to put the mushroom rock and a few other items in a smaller tank with a far weaker LED light. The mushroom spread (not as big as originally but substantially more than it had been) quite large. All parameters between the two tanks, water wise are the same, except for the depth of the tank and the light. Well, I finally set up the new LED lights over the main tank and put the mushroom and everything back. Everything has done well, but once again, even when placed at a similar height under the water under the same LED light, the mushroom refuses to spread. I have tried every corner of my tank. Low flow, no flow. light flow, shaded, not shaded, even moved it into the refugium which is a replica of how it was being contained when I had moved it out of the big tank and under the exact same light at the exact depth. Nope. still nothing. So I am out of ideas. Everything has been doing great under the new LEDs, except for the mushrooms which haven't changed from when it was under the halides and actinic.
The only water parameter difference is the other tank had slightly higher nitrates, where as the main tank is at 0. Yet all the leathers that were in the other tank are doing just as well in the main tank while they had a short stay in the smaller one.
Any ideas?
Thanks
The only water parameter difference is the other tank had slightly higher nitrates, where as the main tank is at 0. Yet all the leathers that were in the other tank are doing just as well in the main tank while they had a short stay in the smaller one.
Any ideas?
Thanks
