White "Slime" Around Mushroom (Pics)

[Vitaly]

I recently received a piece of LR with a medium sized red mushroom. Two smaller ones have appeared adjacent to it over the past couple months. The other evening I noticed that the mushroom shriveled up very tightly and then there was a white slime/film that appeared around it.

Its been about two days and the mushroom looks healthy now; completely opened up and brightly colored.

Anybody have any idea what may have happened?
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Thank you...

 

[acook]

Did you do a water change or change anything like adding calcium. They turn their stomach inside out and dump their contents. Nothing major to worry about. They generally come right back out in a few hours. I have multiple shrooms and they don't like water changes. Everytime they come back.

 

[acook]

bye the way good luck with the baby's they look very healthy.

 

[ronald7410]

have u tried to rub the slime off?

 

[Vitaly]

<B>acook</B>...yep I actually did a water change. I usually do the change into the sump and then let it circulate into the display. However, this recent change was directly into the display (long story). Thatnks for the information (really weird about turning out their GI).

<B>ronald7410</B>...I did not attempt to remove te slime since I saw the mushroom recover quickly I decided to leave it alone and not agitate it more. I do not like to reach in too often and prefer to let the "system" try to take care of itself if possible. The slime disappeared gradually, presumably from the flow and bugs in the system.

Thanks again...

 

[TriniReefer]

are you sure it is a slime?it might be dried up super glue or whatever the person used to mount it to the rock

 

[Vitaly]

<B>TriniReefer</B>, that is an interesting thought, however, I do not believe that would be the cause. The person I purchased the rock from did not use any glues/adhesives to attach corals in his tank.

 

[choyn006]

it's just the mushroom's mucus. disturb them and they shed it. happens all the time with mine. carbon removes it from water, no worries

 

[jbittner]

Mushrooms generally expell their "guts" from their mouths. Looks to me like it is something that has nothing to do with the mushroom. It could be shedding from a leather or vermitid snail net (could really be anything). Take a turkey baster and gently remove it from the base of the shroom, before it becomes a problem.

 

[Vitaly]

Okay thanks to everyone for their comments. If you notice in the original post, this event actually happened on about Dec 27-28 and I submitted the post on Dec 30.

At that time, on the 30th, everything had cleared up on its own. Since then the mushroom, and the two smaller offspring, have looked and behaved normally. Thus at this point I think the matter is resolved and warrants no further action.

I hope this does not happen again...but if it does at leat I will know not to worry too much.

Again, thanks to everyone who contributed.