Mushroom shriveled

[Patrick]

Why does GSP is doing fine but mushrooms shrunk and closed up. It was doing fine for first two days.

[reef garden]

Can provide some information and possibly photos eg. when was it set up, is water cycled, what's the livestock, when were gsp and mushrooms introduced to the tank, any recent water changes, dosing or additions? It's hard to comment based on the above.

[Patrick]

Thanks bro. Will learn to upload pic soon. Currently have a 10L tank with IOS with ceramic ring carbon bag poly filter and stock sponge filter. And air pump. Started about 2 mths with NSW and daily change 5% with salt mix water buy from LFS. Light is stock led clip on. Have 3 small clowns now left one. Put in GSP and mushroom 3 days ago. Both opened up nicely but today mushroom shriveled. I dosed ocean free bacteria 8000 yesterday cuz two clowns not doing well. Could it be overdosed? Funny thing is I always have this prob with mushrooms even with big big tanks and necessary equipments skimmer and all.

[rekian]

Did you check your water parameter since you get NSW from lfs.

[Patrick]

No but I will when I get the bigger tank soon. The mushrooms were fully opened in LFS though. Maybe it's due to adding salt mix water. Will try to replace w NSW later and see any better.

[rekian]

Instead of spending the money on livestock and coral, would advise you to get testing kit to test the parameter. Salinity and pH are the basic one. Can give you a hydrometer for free if you need.

[reef garden]

I'm sorry to say this but I think you need to look into your husbandry skills and read up more on maintaining a marine pico tank. It's not that difficult but requires some dedication. Frankly a 10 liters volume is too small to contain 3 clown fish. Relying on merely an air pump to move water for this setup is definitely non-ideal and may not culture sufficient beneficial bacteria. In my opinion, a hang-on-back filter with a motorized pump that moves at least 3-4 times the tank volume per hour eg. about 40 liters/hour, is the bare minimum. It may be 2 months already but the 5% water change is not effective. Did you measure the salinity everytime you changed the water to ensure it's the same? For small volume tanks, any small fluctuations are highly magnified. I'm positive there are problems with some of your water parameters eg. high nitrates, causing stress to your clown fish. The 2 clowns might have died from brooklynella disease but they could have likely died from stress brought about by the unstable tank conditions. Your mushrooms are also suffering under the same tank conditions, and unless you address the non-ideal water conditions, everything you add in will be stressed and will die sooner, than later. As all the bros here advised, don't add any livestock as of now. My advice is don't do any more water changes for the time being but instead do a measurement of your water parameters eg. pH, salinity, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels, and post it here. Unless we all know what is the problem, we can't really help you.

[Patrick]

Thanks reef garden for your advice. I believe u r absolutely right. Have stopped reefing for a few years and realized small tank is not as easy as I thought. Anyway, it's the camaraderie in this forum tat makes reefing interesting. Thanks again to all who replied!

[Patrick]

I just put in another small pump to move the water from iOS into display area. Hope for the best

[Patrick]

Why my mushrooms r like this?

[Patrick]

Why my mushrooms like this?

[DottyClown]

Did you check is any pest are bothering it?

[Patrick]

I checked no pest. I have no shrimp or anything that will crawl over mushrooms.

[DottyClown]

Visible problems would be pest irritation. Maybe dip them in Coral Rx, just in case.

Invisible problems would be water parameters. I understand the GSP is ok, but then different corals can have different responds to same parameters.

Just my 2 cents worth.