mushrooms

new at this kinda stuff.....got some shrooms and they did very well....and now they don't look so hot....can they die and how would you know? I have a 55 gal. with a 48" cp light. 2 10k and 2 actinic. 2 damsles. 1 yellow tang. two powerheads. a hang on filter with live rock in it. thers about 35 lbs of rock in the tank. with a 2.5" sand bed. I dose with kent marine microverst, Iodide, Purple Tech, Teck I, and API's algafix. No Nitrate, No Phosphate, Kh is 10, Calciume is 400, pH is 8.4 (it looks like it). Had Red slime but its almost gone, o yeah I had some blue zoos die too damn it...Any Help out there?????

 

commdiver

do you have an Iodine test kit?
purple tech - if its a Purple up type product and the name makes me assume it is
then you might be dosing Iodine / iodide with that product and also individually

Iodide is harmfull in excess QTYs - you might want to get a test kit or ask your LFS to test that level

if the shrooms start splitting into half or opening a hole in the centre, IME they are not going to be around long and its often a water quality issue

what other corals/ fish do you have in the tank?

a general rule of thumb / principle is "Dont dose any chemicals that you are not testing for"

also just in case , get a copper test done on your water as this is another chemical that can kill things in reef tanks

Steve

 

Great advice, I also think that your over dosing on Iodine. Your dosing Iodine and Purple up, which both have Iodine. I recommed a or 2 WC and stop dosing those two elements.



Luna

 

Sounds like your dosing a lot of things... which arent fully necessary.
Get good test kits and only dose what you need. Recommend a regular two part

 

Roger that...Thanks....I have a fetherduster and it looks like it got a hair cut????.....and I tried Xenias but they didn't work....I use culligan RO water from store with water changes....I have a reef master test kit but guess its not testing enough... thanks again for all the help and hopefully I'll start to understand...