Help !! Mushrooms melting

[seahorse]

Hi , some of my mushrooms are melting away . Especially those meaty ones like giant mushroom . Can anyone pls

advice ?? Thank u .

[cool water]

Hi: Seahorse

I am having the same problem also. My small green mr is melting and half of the population is not open. Wish that some one can help use. lets save our mr.

[Morgan]

Post a pic, maybe someone will help.

[DragonGoby]

Any pics? Maybe you can try to increase current, it helped for mine.

[cool water]

I will get my tank pic up ASAP, try the current and see how it work. THANKS guy.

[seahorse]

Hi attached is the pic of ms melting !!

[seahorse]

It always starts with a little tearing on the ms . The white protion on the ms

[seahorse]

This pic is with the ms gone oready!

[Morgan]

Could be your water temperature too high. If not then try changing about 30% of the water.

[seahorse]

My water temp around 26 - 27 degree . Have been changing 10% of water almost every week .

[TanGo]

Tank size? Water perimeters? Anything was added before all these happen? All these might help us in determining the problems of your melting mushrooms..

[Morgan]

Do your water test. Check that all your parameters are OK.

Something is very wrong, mushrooms are very tough, I have some in a tank without circulation and filter for over a month and still they are not melting like yours.

[seahorse]

tank size 5ft , no2 0.1 , pho4 0.25 , sg 1.023 , kh 9 ,

lights 2x250w MH + 2 actinics , MH on for 10hrs & actinics

12hrs .

The prob only occurs on those meaty ms , Those "thin"

ms are ok so far .

Could the prob be causes by crabs or bristleworms ??Or do

ms need special high dosage of certain minerals??

[Tanzy]

Looks bad. Might be copper or heavy metals. What other invertebrates to you have in the tank?

[seahorse]

Hi Tanzy , my pair of boxer had been with me for 6mths

so far , looks healthy . Also alot of unwanted crabs !!

[Tanzy]

If your shrimps are alive then it's not copper.

Run polyfilter and some carbon. Wait and see what happens.

[seahorse]

Thks Tanzy . Polyfilter oready in place , will add carbon

now .

[TanGo]

What about NO3 and Ammonia? Did you check them? Had a friend recently who never check his NO3 and all his branch died.. After than he tested for NO3 he found out that his NO3 sky high..

2cts

[BlueTerror]

hi, can u explain how ur ms are melting? all i can see from the pic is they are a little shrivelled. my ms do tt in a while.

[Dinosaur]

I think I am facing this problem too. It will starts by releasing so slimy things and then slowly dissolved. But ironically, other coral like branches, jewel, leather jacket and star props are very healthy.

Mine is a 6 feet tank with 3 pail water changed every two weeks. PH, Ca, KH is at health level. I also couldn't figure out whats wrong?

This is how it look when I just brought it. I'll take a pictomorrow to show you all the miserable state it is now tomorrow when the lights is on.

[pospeh]

Seahorse, have you tested for iodide? Soft corals need them and most salt mixes don't have enough.

Other than that, your phosphate and nitrite levels are bad.

[Dinosaur]

This is how it looks like now .........

[hotsoup]

Another possible.,did u or when u add any solution to the main tank, those unresolved particle landed on the mushroom's surface?

[Dinosaur]

Another possible.,did u or when u add any solution to the main tank, those unresolved particle landed on the mushroom's surface?

erm....... can elaborate? Like what?

[ckpeh]

Hi all,

I have the same problem too. I thought I arrange the Live rock and accidentally tear one of the big ones. But notice any rock with these big mushrooms melting too.

Could it been the light source? I pick them quite near to the water surface? But some of them survive and growing well. very strange.