why do mushrooms detach?

[organism]

The last month or two I've been dealing with a really annoying issue where random mushrooms in my tank are detaching. The water parameters are all where they need to be and none are getting too much or too little light, but the tank was lacking quite a bit in the flow department until I got a powerhead last week. The rocks the mushrooms were on were also not very big, so it may be that they detached to find more space elsewhere...

Does anyone know other reasons that mushrooms detach that aren't water quality or light related?

 

[Bunnylicked]

I had a red mushroom detach from a large rock when I accidentally broke off part of its flesh. It looked like it had been on that rock for a while, so I was surprised to see it in a small cave in the rock the next day. If anything in your tank is picking on the mushrooms, that could be why they're moving so much.

 

[Batreef]

did they start to detach once you put the extra powerhead in? i personally have never run into this issue.

 

[organism]

Nope, nothing in there picking on them, and they were detaching before the powerhead, but now only one's detached in the last week since I got it. That might be because there's not many left to detach though, I can see at least one other one that's starting to mull the idea over... Anything else that might do it?

It's really weird, never had any detaching issues with mushrooms before...

 

[SushiGirl]

Must just be that time of year. My red mushrooms are doing it too right now LOL.

 

[organism]

Funny you mention it, it's my red ones especially. Tonga mushrooms are doing fine, but with few exceptions anything red and orange is just thtbtbbtbt

 

[S13<3]

my shrooms in tank seem to stay put well, but ive never been able to transport a shroom without it bailing on me

 

[Sk8r]

likeliest reasons, in no particular order---an alkalinity crisis or change in alkalinity or ph, a neighbor it doesn't like, lighting it doesn't like, or flow it doesn't like

 

[SushiGirl]

I've had a large one and a tiny baby one let go this week. We had a great time the other night watching the big one. It first appeared in front of a rock in a low flow corner. An hour later, it was 1/4 around the left of the rock. Another hour, it was behind the rock. Another hour it was to the right of the rock, and one more hour later it was back in front LOL. Every time we'd look at the tank we'd laugh. I just piled some rocks and empty shells in the corner for it and the tiny one so maybe they'll attach.

In my case, I think they just got crowded out. I had a big and small do that about 4 months ago too.

 

[Kiviro]

I've had the same thing going on with reds and blues...

 

[Perched Urchin]

My reds ones especially, although my blue and green have done so as well, seem to let go when they start to get crowded. They will create little ones, those grow, and then some just release and float around until they find something to attach to. Changes in water chemistry, proximity to other corals, damage from predators, etc. all might cause it too, but from what I have observed, it doesn't have to be linked to an event.

 

[organism]

I figured out what it was btw, turns out sometimes it's cyano, and sometimes it's toxic hydroids that are slowly but surely nuking your tank. Should've known with the stomatellas showing up dead every few days or so, just goes to show you've gotta keep an eye on what's going on in your tank!

 

[xCry0x]

Interesting, I bought my first frags for my tank and got a small frag with 2 red shrooms and after a week the smaller shroom did the same thing. Found it behind my rocks, put it in a lower flow area on a piece of rubble, it attached itself for about a week was good then it vanished again. At this point I said f' it, everything else was getting mad at me for moving rocks to rescue the little thing.

 

[SushiGirl]

I think maybe ours is a pH issue. I've had to buffer twice in the past couple of weeks after finally checking the pH. We have some zoas that aren't happy & couldn't figure it out when I remembered they don't like low pH. I have 2 or 3 mushrooms floating around right now, and 2 that finally attached. I also have 2 sets of zoas and 1 set of palys that are not at all happy. Gonna run a full battery of tests & find out what's going on.