Shroom help!

[fishytime1]

What do yuo guys think is happening with these shrooms? They have been getting worse over the past few days.If they are dead or dying should I snip them off or let nature take its course?

Please help.

 

[chrisstie]

Have you tested your water lately? Hows your temp, SG, ca, alk, nitrates, phosphates?

Anything die off that could create an ammonia spike?

Anyone or anything able to get into your tank while not looking?

Unfortunately troubleshooting is like playing 20 questions.

Is your signature updated and your tank is only 1 month old? Are you possibly having a mini cycle or was the tank ever completely cycled? What kind of lights do you have and how close are the mushrooms to it..

Again, sorry for so many questions, but in this hobby a picture is worth a million words, but we just need a few more to really get a diagnosis going

 

[fishytime1]

The tank is around 6 weeks old. All water parameters test out A-OK and temp is 80. Only two small fish (that are fine) and a small CUC (lost 1 snail to a zebra hermit gang attack). The tank is 20g.I dosed with a reef "safe"(damn LFS) ick cure and the shrooms looked fine for 2 days then didnt extend fully on the third, so I threw in a bunch of carbon and did a 20% W/C and then more carbon. All other coral seem to be doing fine( zoas, palys, xenia). I went from 2x24w to 4x24w T5 HO(2-18000k and 2-actinic) about a week and1/2 ago. The shrooms are about 16" away from the lights and are getting moderate flow. Thanks for your quick response.

 

[SAPseven]

my shrooms do that sometimes .. and then are back to normal the next day .. happens every now n then .

 

[geoxman]

I would worry more about Iodine/iodide levels as long as everything else is in check. You might want to get them out of the flow---is it a wide flow or an annoying MJ flow? I do not have a bunch of experience with t5, I am more of a MH guy, maybe lower them. what was the ich stuff you dosed? I would ditch the carbon I use it about twice a year-jmho. Did you rinse the carbon before use? good luck

 

[fishytime1]

Yup rinsed the carbon. The ich treatment was "exodin". The lfs dude said it was compleatly reef safe. Guess that was my "bad" for believing a lfs guy. I cant lower ther any further really cuase they are allmost on the sand now. Heres a before pic.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[chrisstie]

Hmm a quick search on google reveals "exodin" to be a solution for cyanobacteria as well as Oodinium which is also known as marine velvet- similar, but not the same as ich. Looks like somehow is a broad spectrum antibiotic but without toxins that could harm corals.

I dont know if it works the same as something like Chemi-Clean but i'd do another water change or two over the next week (not so much you shock the system but enough to pull anything else nasty out) and make sure you follow the perscribed dose\length of time to use carbon.

I also wonder if they aren't in shock from so much light.. you could try putting egg crate (found in hardware stores as light diffusion panel) or sheets of screen (like window screen( in layers above the tank to block out some of the light and slowly remove them if the shroom goes back to normal after having less light

just some thoughts but not sure what works for you.

Also, be wary of advice a LFS tells you. They aren't all experts, and neither are we here on RC but we're at least hobbyists with sometimes good and bad experiences we can share as well as the outcomes. Hopefully our advice can help steer you in the right direction, but the biggest most useful tool you have at your finger tips is the ability to reasearch, research, research

Best of luck and let us know what you decide to do and if it helps

 

[fishytime1]

Thanks chrisstie, perhaps the combination of adding the light and dosing with the exodin was a little to much for the shrooms. I decided to move the rock to a shaded area with a little less flow.I could also move the lights up another couple inches on the supplied stands, but dont really want to do that cause I have a few sps frags (digitata and birdsnest) that I dont want to light starve. You have replied to another one of my threads in the past here, and I want to thank you again for all your help and advice.