mushrooms

[brent6969]

HOw do you know when your mushrooms are dead?

[sapgranth25]

the disc will not come out just a sump are nothing at all there but give them time as mushrooms are bomb proof your tank will come to no harm leaving them in even if they are dead but mushrooms are like aiptasia to kill always find a way back unless you use chemicals

[BeelzeBob]

they dissolve into goo

[ljse]

Mushrooms can take a lot of abuse so dont give up on them until they turn to goo like brackishguybob said.

[brent6969]

k thanks they havn't quite turned to goo yet so i'll keep trying

[Cavalier2123]

Yeah they are pretty hearty critters for sure, but you just have to be patient with them. If they just aren't blooming then you might want to try moving them to different levels of light or flow. I've noticed that some of my mushrooms don't like being up high and close to the light, so I moved them down to the middle of the tank and they bloomed nicely.

[BeelzeBob]

i have two special ed mushrooms.

they're usually crooked and lopsided. but other than that okay.

they do weird stuff.

[fish addict]

I had several mushrooms in my tank and they were doing fine for a couple of months. One day one of them dissapeared, and another a few days later, until they were all gone. I have a camel shrimp in the tank and have read that they might eat mushroom corals. I guess that must be what happened to them because they never looked unhealthy or turned to goo, just gone.

[brent6969]

k well i have a lot of light on my ten gallon. I put a 96 w pc light on casue i wanted to keep some lps but have had second thoughts. What's your guys opinion?

[BeelzeBob]

i have the same light over an 18 gal, and i just got my first lps last weekend.

go for it dude!

@ 9.6 wtts per gallon, just make sure you acclimate things to the light.