You said this mushroom send out long filament like tentacles? Or at
least I think thats what you said. That statement has just been
setting in my head going round and round for some reason as to
hopefully id what shrooms yu may have. Are these long filaments coming
out of the mouth by chance? I have a few mushrooms that seem to puke
their guts out if conditions are not right, now that I think of it,
and seem to be more fussy than the typical shroom is. Its like a bunch
of fine white sphagetti that is expelled, and later on its retracted
back inside them. I have always been told this is their guts.....dunno
for sure. I have a frilly shroom and an umbrella shroom and two warty
shrooms that will "spill their guts" and go poor looking for a few
days if they get disturbed.

I have to think the black under the shroom wsa red slime that was
smothered out.

Have yu done any more checking on the use of RODI water....the DI
alone is going to be a big help in elimminating phosphates, nitrate
andsilicates in reef tank water. Not a problem with RO in a FO tank,
but a reef is almost certainly best off and more trouble free with
RODI water. (that is unless yu listen to Guyan ;-)

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:26:28 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

Tristan wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:47:05 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:


Tristan wrote:

hmm .......Shrooms are perhaps one of the most easy and forgiving
critters. They do well on live rock or in sand substrate. Usualy when
they start to turn white a rot is if there is too much light from what

Shrooms are just so hardy of a critter they are most adaptive to what
they get and its really hard to screw em up. I personally have never
seen a shroom that was naturally w hite. I have obtained shrooms that
were white and almost to thr point they were almost transparent or at
least opaque from being buried under the sand or way back under live
rock etc. They all recovered over a period of time and took on a
coloration of one degree or another. Heck I had a shroom I had placed
in a plastic cup one day to relocate to another tank that I forgot
abaout, and it sat in little to nno water for close to two days and
the wife moved it off the top of the aquarium to the back of the
counter in the spare bath we use mainly to accomodate the associated
fish keeping requirements. It set in there n the dark for over a week,
and it recovered in no time once it was restored to a proper
environment. Your water parameters are not really out of line from
what I seen previously or to the point that it wold cause a problem
with a shroom. I sure do not know what to tell you. I hate to
question the integrity of them actually being a shroom.......

There is not a chemical warfare situation going on between them and
the other corals is there? I just do not have any kind of answer or
something other than relocate them to offer at this point.


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Seem to have got to the bottom of it....like you suggested a moved the
shroom (left the one that is in the substrate) and the substrate was
black underneath - and yep, with that dreaded egg smell....I carefully
syringed the water/substrate out with my turkey baster until all I was
getting was clear water....I then did a check around the tank and there
were quite a few dead button polyps hanging around - these took quite a
bashing with the red slime....So I'm guessing the buttons got finished
off by the red slime and then the decaying buttons which I hadn't
spotted before then did for the mushrooms....fingers crossed that I
managed to sort this before anything else goes the same route....

I'm hoping that this clean up plus a vigile for more "dead" buttons
coupled with a water change (I'm already running carbon short term)
might sort things - here's hoping anyway....

Thanks for your help
Gill



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