Stagnant Mushrooms...

[NewAcreReef]

So, I won't lie, I enjoy having SPS in my tank more than I like my mushrooms, however, is that why my mushrooms won't really grow?

I've had multiple shrooms in my tank that refuse to split, they do absolutely nothing. Is my tank too clean?

Ca:500
Alk: 13dkh
Mg:1200

Nitrates & Phospates undetectable.. But is that my problem? Do they like dirty tank?

 

[RA]

They may not like an alk of 13. :eek2:

 

[rjmurd]

shrooms do like dirtier water. How long have you had them. I have had shrooms that do nothing for 6 months, then explode all at once

 

[NewAcreReef]

My tank has been set up for about a year now, I have a typical blue mushroom that in everybody else's tank seems to grow like grass. I also have a bright orange mushroom that refuses to do anything but nothing.

 

[organism]

I have a ULN tank with nitrates and phosphates at zero and my mushrooms grew fairly slowly until I started using red sea reef energy A and B and Seachem's reef p which has really helped them take off. They don't need dirty water by any means though, even without additives they still grew. The thing is some of them can take a while to settle into systems. I have a blue and red one that did nothing for like 8 months, and now there's three as of a few weeks ago.

Something else that works is putting some powdered pellet food on them with all the flow off.