Oh JEEZ!! Please help!! Bleaching Shroom

[mama]

Ok....I bought a large rock filled with frilly mushrroms a week ago...I notice one of them start to turn white...then another...now another!! Some of the tissue is starting to hang and I see some string-like expulsion from the mouths of some...what is happening? what should I do??:cry_smile:

[JimD]

You have to include some details about your tank, ie: lighting, filtration, etc. Also, tell us what the environment was where the shrooms came from. A pic would be helpfull.

[envy]

also put the tank temp.

[mama]

whoops!! sorry....I have a T5 light with 2 HOB mechanical filters in a 36 gallon bowfront. I purchased the rock with the mushrooms from my LFS. The temp is 79-80...I have a percula clown,bi-color blenny, engineer goby and psuedochromis. I have many other mushrooms, zoa's,plate coral...and they are all fine... Thank YOU for trying to help me...

[mama]

come back to me guys!!

[Texreefer]

check your salinity

[mama]

OK...on my Instant Ocean Hydrometer it reads 38ppt and 1.028 specific gravity...

[Kristy]

Our mushrooms are usually unhappy when PH is off. But that sounds like really unhappy. Might be worth checking PH, CA, and alk.

[Mr Cob]

FYI; Mushrooms like low water flow and indirect lighting.

What's your other parameters? Like Amonia, Nitrate and Nitrite?

[mama]

The rock is on the bottom of the tank...very little water flow...all my other parameters are at 0....I am so sad :-(

[ErikH]

1.028? I would have your water double checked by a LFS! 1.028 is about 5 points too high! the higher the salinity, the more prone to infections fish become. DERR.... When was your last water change?

[barderer]

how is the water less dense at a higher salinity?

[jc]

How did you acclimate it?

[mama]

Hey all!!

Thanks for all your help!! I just pulled out 3 gallons of salt water from the 36 gallon hex and added 3 gallons of DI and the salinity now reads perfect. It was too high, but the only thing showing any problems are still those frilly mushrooms...they are still as white as heck, about 3-4 of them, but some are big and flourishing!! I googled and found out that it is mostly explained as a sign of stress. I was told they should come back...so fingers crossed!!

[Kristy]

One of our fuzzy mushrooms bleached after a lighting issue. It has now come back, so hopefully yours will do the same.

[glennr1978]

I'm no expert, but I don't think it's a good idea to change the salinity that fast. You may have stressed the poor little shrooms even more, but they are tough little guys, they will probably pull through.

If they can be chopped up in a blender to be fragged then they should be able to survive your tank too!!!!

[mama]

Holey moley....now I've gone and done it....at what ratio and rate do you drop salinity? I guess I should have asked before I done gone and did it!!!

[Bill S]

Take your hydrometer with you the next time you go to the LFS. They are notorious for being off. Putting the shrooms in a higher salinity probably ticked them off - and high is more stressful than low.