What's wrong with my hairy mushroom?!

[Jblank44]

What is going on? It was beautiful, then shriveled up the past two days... How ever is opening up a bit! I think I may know what happen... It came on a patch of zoos with the hairy mushroom but never ever bothered them so that can't be it. However I was adapting a goniopora to my light and moved it up near my mushroom and then it shriveled up... Thinking that could be it.. I have moved the goniopora.

 

[kichimark]

Might be a possibility on the Goni placement. Have you done anything else lately around the same time where your shroom acted different?

 

[Jblank44]

Might be a possibility on the Goni placement. Have you done anything else lately around the same time where your shroom acted different?

Other than a water change... No. Also, when I pulled it out it smelled kinda funky... So you think I have some pest or something in my tank... I also found this on a rock earlier today... Like a white spongy looking thing

 

[chrisfont23]

Too much light?

 

[Jblank44]

Too much light?

Well I talked to my LFS and he said it's normal and I should give it a few days!

 

[Jblank44]

Too much light?

Well I talked to my LFS and he said it's normal and I should give it a few days! Also the spongy thing is just a sponge! A harmless filter feeder!

 

[MechEng99]

What are your tank parameters? Equipment?

Goniopora are extremely alleopathic (chemical warfare). Are you running carbon?

Your zoanthids don't look very happy either...coincidence?

As for your other post (mushroom spewing stuff), it looks like mesenterial filaments. The way yours is acting looks like it is stressed. If its coming out of the mouth area, that's usually digestive waste. Coming out of the tissue usually means stress (not uncommon with chemical warfare.) I've also seen it when the shrooms are about to split, but yours doesn't look like that...looks like stress.

 

[Jblank44]

What are your tank parameters? Equipment?

Goniopora are extremely alleopathic (chemical warfare). Are you running carbon?

Your zoanthids don't look very happy either...coincidence?

As for your other post (mushroom spewing stuff), it looks like mesenterial filaments. The way yours is acting looks like it is stressed. If its coming out of the mouth area, that's usually digestive waste. Coming out of the tissue usually means stress (not uncommon with chemical warfare.) I've also seen it when the shrooms are about to split, but yours doesn't look like that...looks like stress.

How do I prevent this chemical warfare? I have the goniopora on the other side of the tank now. And it had never done this! That is until I moved it up near it but I moved it back away. All paeans are good besides nitrate... It was at 20 but is dropping. Also, it may not be a goniopora, I've been wondering what it is, maybe it is, I'll post a picture if it tomorrow! However, if it is cause chemical warfare, I'll take it to my LFS and swap it out for another frag. And it didnt affect my zoos, the only reason my zoos are closed is cause I had my hands in the tank moving the goniopora (or whatever it may be) elsewhere. The hairy has got about two times larger in a day! But it has the mesenterial filaments or whatever it may be!

 

[Jblank44]

Here is an update... It looks much better today!

And here is the coral, I think it's a goniopora.

 

[MechEng99]

Here is an update... It looks much better today!

And here is the coral, I think it's a goniopora.

Looks like a Gorgonia, not a Goniopora. All corals (to my knowledge) are alleopathic to some extent. Soft corals and Gonioporas are moreso than some others. You can combat that by using a good quality carbon.

Glad the shroom is looking better.

 

[Jblank44]

Looks like a Gorgonia, not a Goniopora. All corals (to my knowledge) are alleopathic to some extent. Soft corals and Gonioporas are moreso than some others. You can combat that by using a good quality carbon.

Glad the shroom is looking better.

Thanks a bunch! That's what it is and I kept fidgeting it, thought it was goniopora. Haha, he must have just been upset for a bit! Anyways, thanks a lot!

 

[vette.tech]

That coral you think is a Goni looks like a corky sea finger, you couldn't pay me to have one of them, they are very fast growing and can take over pretty quickly in the tanks I've seen it in. Watch it carefully

 

[Jblank44]

That coral you think is a Goni looks like a corky sea finger, you couldn't pay me to have one of them, they are very fast growing and can take over pretty quickly in the tanks I've seen it in. Watch it carefully

Right now it's sitting in the bottom so it doesn't have much to grow to

 

[GreenSaltyOne]

Wish my shroom looked better like yours. My post below yours on the forum shows my mushroom looking like that at first, and then way way worse over the last two weeks and its still hanging by a thread. Personally, I think my nitrates were to blame at one point. Yours being at 20 were not terribly high, and mine were at 50. I lost my branching hammer, and my mushroom has been struggling ever since. The water change is probably why it recovered. If you tank is new, like mine is, I've learned to change the water weekly and test the water weekly until it becomes stable after at least a few months. Then every other week will be my plan. Glad your mushroom is back to normal.

 

[Jblank44]

Wish my shroom looked better like yours. My post below yours on the forum shows my mushroom looking like that at first, and then way way worse over the last two weeks and its still hanging by a thread. Personally, I think my nitrates were to blame at one point. Yours being at 20 were not terribly high, and mine were at 50. I lost my branching hammer, and my mushroom has been struggling ever since. The water change is probably why it recovered. If you tank is new, like mine is, I've learned to change the water weekly and test the water weekly until it becomes stable after at least a few months. Then every other week will be my plan. Glad your mushroom is back to normal.

My tank is about a year old. But make sure nothing is near them that could bother them, they get ****ed easy! Also, you nitrates is for sure the problem... I had a frogspawn and my tank went through a huge drought where it all went to poop and my nitrates were at 80... They are now around 10 and decreasing. Do you feed your corals?