Tristan wrote:

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?

Certainly looks that way to me...and on those that have "dissolved" all
I am seeing is these filaments floating around in the tank...

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.

So perhaps even putting them in the tank was enough to disturb
them....and a little bit too much for all but two of them - actually it
has to be said I've only found one dead one - and that one was most
definetely a goner...

And yes I have most definitely seen this....certainly the one on the LR
did it this pm when I tried moving it and is now slowly retracting the
stuff....


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

could well be but if it was producing Hydrogen Sulphide this would not
be good for the mushrooms...and there was a distinct eggy smell - I was
very careful when cleaning up to avoid as much of this as possible going
into the water column - and believe me the kitchen sink still smells
manky from where I disposed of the water....

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 ;-)

No, I still need to....am kind of hoping to get to the LFS tomorrow if I
can resolve my concience on trip to LFS versus all the Christmas
shopping I need to get done...

Thanks for the info on the white spaghetti - that is most definitely
what they are up to....

Gill