Help me pretty please

I have a rock w/ some purple mushrooms on it and the first month or so I had it it was doing great, but now for the last 4 months it's all shriveled and losing some color and sometimes the mushrooms just let loose and float away. I have 192watts of lighting (1 50-50 and 1 antinic) they are at the bottom of the tank and I was told they were shocked becuz of the light, someone please give me an anwser.

 

Jon Reefy

192 watts of lighting and its 2 lamps - so I imagine there are power compacts 96 watts each?

how large is the tank - what depth are the shrooms at?

it could be light, where they new when you got them, as typically Compact flourescents require changing at 6 - 9 months as they lose intensity quickly



it could also be other issues

do you know your current parameters? temp, PH, salinity, calcium, magnesium, DKH

have you tested for ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate recently?

what else is in the tank?

Steve

 

Now that is how you post- great example Steve.

I await the O/P's reply.

 

Flow in your tank? Filtration? Is only the foot losing color, or the entire shroom.

 

Yes they are CP's 40 GAL TANK
Nitrites 0ppm
Nitrates0ppm
pH 8.1-8.4
Cal. 350-400 (still working on that)
Phosphate 0ppm
New bulbs just replaced them in February. 1 460nm antinic 1 50-50 10k 460nm
Shrooms are at the bottom on the tank, low to moderate low flow, Bak-Pak skimmer Bio-Wheel fitration
My other shrooms (florescent) look good and have one bud off it.
What could it be??

 

i would ditch the bio wheel and are u have large temp swings and when do u change water are u mixing it the nite b4 and match DT temp b4 adding

 

I agree sounds like light shock, try to shade the mushroom.

 

what bulbs did you have prior to February? it looks like 75% of your lighting is now actinic so they might need more light.

 

The wheel is gone out of the filter. Yes I mix the water w/ a powerhead and heater the night before. I am shading the mushrooms with screen. And I had 1 10k bulb and 1 antinic (460nm i think) All other corals are doing fine even my Pink Flowerpot (Gonopora). So is my Candy cane coral

 

A pic of the mushrooms will help. Mushrooms will release their hold if they do not like the lighting and/or flow. If the light is too low they will stretch to the light.