About a week ago my wife stopped at the LFS and got a smallish piece of rock with a handful of green mushrooms on them. They haven't been eager to expand and looked a little sad but nothing too serious. This morning several of them started to detach from the rock and have floated away to parts unknown.
They were properly acclimated along with some cleaner shrimp she also snagged, which are doing just fine. My tank is primarily softies, several zoas that are now flourishing after a nudibranch infestation, a ricordea that seems bigger every day, some xenia and a toadstool leather. The rest of the corals seem happy and healthy and flourishing. I should note that a couple of my turbos unexpectedly kicked the bucket last weekend as well but the rest of the inverts and fish are quite healthy.
Are the mushrooms detaching simply because they are unhappy with their location in the tank? I have been under the impression that they are nearly bulletproof as far as corals go but they're the only ones in my tank that don't seem to be doing well. What gives?
Parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, ~5 nitrate, 0 phosphate, 8.2 ph, salinity of 1.026. Didn't test alk or cal today but they have been in acceptable ranges lately.
They were properly acclimated along with some cleaner shrimp she also snagged, which are doing just fine. My tank is primarily softies, several zoas that are now flourishing after a nudibranch infestation, a ricordea that seems bigger every day, some xenia and a toadstool leather. The rest of the corals seem happy and healthy and flourishing. I should note that a couple of my turbos unexpectedly kicked the bucket last weekend as well but the rest of the inverts and fish are quite healthy.
Are the mushrooms detaching simply because they are unhappy with their location in the tank? I have been under the impression that they are nearly bulletproof as far as corals go but they're the only ones in my tank that don't seem to be doing well. What gives?
Parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, ~5 nitrate, 0 phosphate, 8.2 ph, salinity of 1.026. Didn't test alk or cal today but they have been in acceptable ranges lately.
