Dying shrooms

algy1943

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012 shrooms and fire fish resized.webpMy 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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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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...
 
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.
 
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
 
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?

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