Mushroom question

[khaotic2]

I moved some of my mushroom coral to my nano on Sunday. All parameters are the same. Used the same water and sand to set up the nano. My mushrooms have yet to open. 2 of them are on the sand, the middle is open and there are squiggly things coming out. It looks like the inards and they are a bright fluorescent color. Are they dying? I have had shrooms for years and never seen this. I have seen them slime, but this is different. Any help or ideas would be great. Thanks.

 

[danedodger]

Hmm it doesn't sound good :thinking: I'd definitely test that water right away and see what readings you get. Nitrates and such can build up super fast in smaller systems!

 

[khaotic2]

Everything is checking out o.k. Like I said, they have been like that since I put them in. On an additional note, I have 2 different sets of button polyps. One is doing great, open all the time, the other is closed up tight as a drum. My small leather coral is doing just fine as well. I'm at a loss.

BTW, I did a small water change last evening.

 

[misty7850]

what is your lighting and temp in the nano ?

 

[khaotic2]

Standard lights that come with the deluxe, 76 degrees and salinity is 1.023

 

[pbienkiewi]

what is standard lighting ?

 

[mudplayerx]

Standard hood lighting is good enough for shrooms to survive, but they won't grow or spread....and that may be why yours are doing poorly...because they aren't getting enough light ot heal properly.
Button polyps/zoos need much better lighting that stardard hood lighting.

 

[viper_930]

Deluxe as in..nanocube deluxe? In that case it has 2x24 watt PC lights.

 

[mudplayerx]

Oh, I thought you meant standard florescent lighting that comes with most tank hoods.

 

[puffer32]

I had a shroom do this, it was melting away for whatever reason, lost it afew days later, sorta turned into florecent slime and disappeared

 

[farmboy]

Did ya sqeeze it by accident when it was moved?

I've handled them before and they don't like it. :scared:

 

[promisetbg]

It was just ticked off and that is his defense.He should pull them back in and be fine.

 

[chipmaker]

I have some shrooms that like to spill their guts when disturbed, others that deflate from a 3" diam to a raisin, and others that do nothing at all......I don't really think you hurt them or that they have a problem with lights etc but were just disturbed at being disturbed......They will get over it just fine if all conditions are suitable, and it sounds like conditions are fine for a shroom.

 

[khaotic2]

Sorry, yes, Nanocube Deluxe lights. I have been in this hobby long enough to know standard fluros are not the way to go. I agree with chipmaker that they are just disturbed. Every other factor in the cube checks out. Today is another day, and we'll see what it brings in my little Nano world. Thanks for the help.

 

[misty7850]

how long has the nano been up and running ?
if it is a newer set up, maybe need to wait a little longer to put the mushrooms in (can you put them back in your main tank ?, quarrentine tank ? to see if they do better ?)
Can you get a picture of the shrooms ?
what size is the nano ?..
How are the mushrooms looking now ?.. Is it possible for you to move them to a larger quarentine tank ? or back in the main tank (however if their dying you probably don't want to put them back in the main tank).. to see if they do better ?

 

[smelsfishy]

Hmmm... ive seen this happen before. I once thaught i could dump my seachem reef builder in the protein skimmer thinkin it would mix and disolve before it whent in the tank. NOPE! a dusting of the powder hit my tank and made everything shrink up and my mushrooms have seemed to splooge their guts out. It was only the big ones like 1" in dia. and bigger. Fortunatly i didnt loose 1. but they stayed splooged for about a 16 hours. i did it around 5:00
P.m. and they sucked in and felt better in the morning.