Help with Mushrooms

jmestayer1

jmestayer1

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Today I noticed that my mushrooms looked really bad, all shriveled up with white stringy things coming out. My ammonia was a little high, but I have done water changes. My salinity is a little low at 1.023, working on this also, but could this be the cause of the mushrooms poor health???????

 
dmjordan

dmjordan

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was this pic taken right after the light was turned on? the white stringy things is a slime or mucus of sorts that corals release when stressed.
 
jmestayer1

jmestayer1

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Ammonia was 1.5, I am testing again right now, have to wait 20 min. and my tank has cycled, it is 4 months old. I was also reading that they should be placed on the bottom first????? I didn't do that, would that help?
 
dmjordan

dmjordan

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placing them on the bottom isn't going to matter since you don't have upgraded lights. you might want to consider doing a water change and add some amquel plus to make the ammonia less toxic. you still need to find out the source of the ammonia though.
 
jmestayer1

jmestayer1

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Where can I get that? Also, could they possibly need more light, I can move them to a friends tank for now, we are working on getting a 24 aquapod with 150 lights soon.
 
1journeyman

1journeyman

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Originally Posted by Jmestayer1
Ammonia was 1.5, I am testing again right now, have to wait 20 min. and my tank has cycled, it is 4 months old. I was also reading that they should be placed on the bottom first????? I didn't do that, would that help?
Good heavens, that's not a little high, that's toxic! At 1ppm ammonia begins to even kill your bacteria. How did it get so high?
All corals, even easy ones like shrooms, need stability.
 
jmestayer1

jmestayer1

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I am still trying to figure that out, I am thinking it is from overfeeding, I purchased new sun coral that I was feeding everyday, I have cut back to every other day and I also had a snail decompose(not sure that would make a difference). I have been doing water changes, and I am waiting for my most recent test to be finished. I will most likely do another a water change tomorrow, I have the water getting ready right now.
 
1journeyman

1journeyman

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Originally Posted by Jmestayer1
Ammonia is back at 0!!!!!!!!!!! SO that's great, but what could be causing the mushrooms to do this?
The ammonia.
 
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