Heh, so my nano is just starting to get stocked up with cool stuff, and I noticed that my zoa's are looking slightly depressed, and my mushrooms look like crap. The shrooms are all puckered up and one has a white oozey looking mouth area. Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
Shroom issues
- Thread starter Dj Orion
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The white stuff coming out of shrooms when they are stressed, such as when you move them, is normal. It should go back in a few hours.
What those of us with small tanks have to remember is that corals use chemical warfare. You can not see it or measure it but each coral gives off some toxic chemicals in order to try to kill off competing corals. This is besides the stinging they do when touching each other. So in a small tank with little volume of water the chemicals to not get diluted as in a bigger tank. So there is always the chance that one is hurting the other which is why at times some look great and others seem to decline. Water changes and activated carbon help reduce this problem as does getting a bigger tank. Another solution is not to mix different kinds of corals.
What those of us with small tanks have to remember is that corals use chemical warfare. You can not see it or measure it but each coral gives off some toxic chemicals in order to try to kill off competing corals. This is besides the stinging they do when touching each other. So in a small tank with little volume of water the chemicals to not get diluted as in a bigger tank. So there is always the chance that one is hurting the other which is why at times some look great and others seem to decline. Water changes and activated carbon help reduce this problem as does getting a bigger tank. Another solution is not to mix different kinds of corals.
ok that one green shroom started doing that in my larger tank, so i moved him in the nano last week and he is showing no improvement. That purple shroom i purchased at an lfs about 2 weeks ago. He has shown the same reaction and has not changed since he entered the tank. I know what they should look like, and that isnt even close. I am starting to get worried.
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water chg?
I have only had the tank setup going on its fourth week, I used half fresh mixed water and half cycled water from a reef. I wanted to do a water change this weekend but wasnt sure if it was too soon.
Interesting you think it's too soon for a water change, but not too soon to stock an immature tank?!
Try relocating your livestock to a stable, mature environment and you'd be surprised how hardy those corals are.
The corals were in a stable environment before I put them in this newer tank when they began to act this way. I put them into this new tank to try and remedy the situation. There are other corals in the tank that are just fine.
If you wait anymore to do something, they will be dead.
You say you used half water from 'a' reef..yours? or another tank?
How much of a difference is there in the lighting between the 2 tanks these guys have been in.
Unless you have a mature tank nearby to move them to, I would do a large water change and get these guys into the shade and into med to light flow.
How warm is the tank?
(heading out to work now..Deanos..you're back on!)
You say you used half water from 'a' reef..yours? or another tank?
How much of a difference is there in the lighting between the 2 tanks these guys have been in.
Unless you have a mature tank nearby to move them to, I would do a large water change and get these guys into the shade and into med to light flow.
How warm is the tank?
(heading out to work now..Deanos..you're back on!)
Dj, I can be wrong, but that green one looks like it is dying. I would dump it. But that is just me, see what the gurus here have to say. And zoas in my tank do the same thing from time to time, and then they are back to normal.
Best wishes my friend..:hug:
Best wishes my friend..:hug:
ok so the nano temp is a lil high at 80. The other water I used came from a long time established reef tank that is not mine. My stock nano lighting is not nearly as good as the MH lighting in the previous setup. I guess I figured that If i used the water that these shrroms came from mixed with some fresh mixed water, they wouldnt undergo nearly as much stress as if the moved into a completely new setup. I guess I was wrong? I just dont ant them to die.
Dj I don't think you were wrong. Unless of course the tank they came from had a really bad problem. And even then your mixing half + half should have been as making a large water change. Sometimes this hobby stinks, but when all is well it is marvelous.
Give me a call within the next half hour, I'm home until then. I'll be out after 11AM.
Give me a call within the next half hour, I'm home until then. I'll be out after 11AM.
Curious as to how you shrooms are doing. I have a shroom that used to give off babies every few weeks and I had about 12 of them. Then all of a suddent all the babies bleached and dissolved within a few days and only the mother was left. Lots of times things happen in this hobby that just do not make sense.
well, I discovered this nasty bearded fireworm in my nano, so i removed him, and decided that it may have been the villain. After he was discovered and removed, all of the other corals have been doing wonderfully. I removed the dying shrooms and placed them into my 75g, however, i am afraid that they didnt make it. After closer investigation, i found that their bases seemed as if they were shredded, and that they were actually hanging on by a thread. Anyways, after that worm was removed, the nano is in prime form.:link:
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