Dying shrooms

• Sep 4, 2010

• #1

algy1943

Reefing newb

My red shrooms seem to be dying off yet the green shrooms are getting bigger, could the high nitrates I had have been the cause, they are at 20mg/L now since removing the filter media, doubled up on photo's sorry

 

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• Sep 4, 2010

• #2

algy1943

Reefing newb

todays photo of red shroom

 

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• Sep 4, 2010

• #3

Smitty

Reef pro

It's possibly the nitrates is causing them to die, or close up. Have you done a water change?

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #4

Bifferwine

I am a girl

I don't see the "today's photo". In the one you posted, they look good.

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #5

algy1943

Reefing newb

Todays photo

algy1943 said:

todays photo of red shroom

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Today's photo of shroom

 

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• Sep 4, 2010

• #6

algy1943

Reefing newb

Smitty said:

It's possibly the nitrates is causing them to die, or close up. Have you done a water change?

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20% weekly

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #7

algy1943

Reefing newb

Bifferwine said:

I don't see the "today's photo". In the one you posted, they look good.

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Photo now added,Sarah BTW did you find your blue zoas that went missing?

 

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• Sep 4, 2010

• #8

Bifferwine

I am a girl

No, I never did find them. :(

That's weird about the shrooms. Do they look the same with the lights on and off? Are they in a lot of light, or not very much light?

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #9

OhNoNemo

i love triggers

Maybe too much current also,IDK,but i know my red ones never fully opened till i moved them to a nice calm spot in the tank..seems that way for all my rics and shrooms,but your appeared to be doing fine and now all of a sudden they are not...so IDK

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #10

the reef kid

hi

Yeah, I'm with nemo...how much flow do you have them in?

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #11

yote

In Memoriam

I'm betting that that algae thats growing arond your mushrooms,are whats effecting them.
Step up your water changes to at least 50% twice a week until you get those nitrates down.

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #12

OhNoNemo

i love triggers

What are his trates,and whats consider bad for shrooms...mine have always been around 5-10ppm...since getting my first shrooms a couple months ago they have done nothing but get bigger....crazy ting is,i read on an online forum that some people think shrooms actually do better in a tank with trace amounts of trates...

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #13

Bifferwine

I am a girl

I believe his nitrates used to be 40+, but then he removed his mechanical filtration media, and now it's at 20.

Lots of corals do better in a tank with a small amount of nitrates. But 40 (and even 20) can be too much.

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #14

OhNoNemo

i love triggers

I recall the one guy on another forum saying his were at 10-15 and his shrooms never looked better,
so is it safe to say Algy 's problem is trates

 

• Sep 4, 2010

• #15

algy1943

Reefing newb

Bifferwine said:

No, I never did find them. :(

That's weird about the shrooms. Do they look the same with the lights on and off? Are they in a lot of light, or not very much light?

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closer to the bottom of the tank, same distance from the led's as the green shrooms, they seem to gradually shrivel