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brent6969

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WHen mushrooms turn brown is this due to to much light. I have my hairy mushrooms at the bottom of the tank. I have a 10 gallon with 96 w pc. Every thing else is doing good.
 
Germanman said:
what was the color of them before? and do they still open and act normal or do they seem stressed and are releasing lots of mucus?
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before they were a greenish color. They do open i would say fully. They were stressed a couple weeks ago as they were completely shrunk up and some sort of purple stuff was coming out of there mouths. Do they need less or more light
 
well the day i brought it home that's when they turned bad. I do have a lot more light than the store though.
 
water params are good they seem to be coming back though there color seems to be coming back and they have gotten quite big. I was worried about them for the longest time. THey are pretty ugly but what can ya do.
 
Also take into consideration the color specturm of the lighting. The color of a coral at the pet store may not be the same as in your tank. Most pet stores use bulbs with a high Kelvin rateing and/or lots of supplimental lighting to bring out the flouresence in a coral to make it more attractive to potential customers.
 
I've noticed this in my tank as well. I have greens and reds which I bought while they were still small. They were vibrant under my lighting, but as they grew in size the color became much more dull. The dark greens have a brownish color when they are fully bloomed.
 
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