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chemical warfare?
all of a sudden in the last week or so my mushrooms have been shriveling up and turning white. now they are starting to die. a friend of mine suggested it could be chemical warfare with the ricordia? but they are 3 feet apart and i dont get how only the mushrooms could be affected? any help or suggestions would be awesome. thanks.
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our mushrooms and rics are side by side for over a year and no problems....
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mine touch. |
I've only seen this happen due to lack of light. And X2 for Ric and mush touching with no probs.
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well it was a sudden thing ive had them for year no problems. and i have 250 watt halides so i dont think its lack of light. o well i'll just get rid of them before they all die and find the root cause of this i guess thanks guys :)
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Do a thorough testing of your tank including checking salinity and temperature. If you're using a hydrometer be sure to calibrate it, to double check as hydrometers are often out by 0.002 or more, which doesn't sound like much, but it sure can be!
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do you dose lots of calcium?
I find they dislike that and high alk also a low nutrient tank could make them unhappy and lastly too much light on certain mushrooms are fatal even ricordea. I have melted a few in my day however if you had it for a year and it was fine maybe you dosed something? |
i started dosing calcium and alk because im switching to sps and slowly starting to phase out the softies. i heard its much easier to raise sps specifically rather than a mix. so it could be the dosing doing it.
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I've had the same thing happen recently with some of my Rics which were under 250W MH. One colony I had for 4 years and then suddenly they all turned white and disappeared. Around the time it started happening I dont recall doing anything different to my tank. If anything things were improving because I was bringing my nitrate down from ~10ppm to <1ppm with a few improvements to my filtration (larger skimmer and filter socks).
Salinity 1.025 (refractometer) Temp 27ºC pH 7.8-8.1 Ca 400 Alk 10 Mg 1300 Nitrate <1 Phosphate .1 (was higher back then and has always been higher until now) |
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