Yuma meltdown and recovery.

[Westpat]

Hi,
I had bought a yuma from my LFS. When i got home I found that it had turned upside down in the bag and the rock it was atached to was smashing it. I put it into the tank and over the next 24 hours it was blowing brown stuff and half of it had melted down. I thought it was gone completely but then I noticed that it had reattached in a crevice on the rock.

It looks deformed but healthy, and still has a variety of colors to it. It has some of its "bumps" left. It is in a med flow area in a 20g long with 78w of compact fluorescent 6500K. It is about 6inches from the light.

Do you think it will fully recover, and is there anything I can do to help it?
Thanks,
David

 

[organism]

Get it into lower light asap and it might make it, keep it in medium flow though so it can keep healing.

 

[philosophile]

Yeah, what organism said, plus try not to do anything with it. Don't try to feed it or anything for a while. Just leave it alone. Yumas can be sensitive shrooms, so try not to do anything that could irritate it.

 

[Westpat]

It is nestled down in a crevice where it is getting half light. It seems like the bulbs on the disk are coming back. I just don't see a mouth so I am a little worried about that.

 

[reefaroni]

When they get like this for me only the cheap ones survive... fingers crossed for u

 

[Westpat]

It is a complete disc shape again. The mouth has come back and the color is coming back to it. It is still hiding from the light as much as possible but I did increase the total flow in the tank a bit. Things are moving in the right direction.
Thanks,
David