Brown.. stuff???
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Topic: Brown.. stuff???
Posted By: CowFish
Subject: Brown.. stuff???
Date Posted: September 03 2007 at 9:05pm
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Our hairy mushroom isn't doing so well.. . . It doesn't look very happy and a couple days back I noticed some brown stringy stuff escaping from it's center. Today I found another brown string floating around and it looks like it's moping. This was the mushroom we got as a hitchhiker from the donor tank and until now it's been stretching lavishly over the rock it's on! Now it's small and I'm concerned whether or not something tore it and those are guts escaping!! Anyone know if I should be overly worried at the moment? ------------- Clearfield, UT. |
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: September 03 2007 at 9:32pm
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You should test the tank to find what the parameters are. Food goes in and waste comes out the same place on mushrooms so that wouldn't concern me. It not looking well and shrinking might be a reason for concern though.
Mike -------------  |
Posted By: CowFish
Date Posted: September 03 2007 at 9:49pm
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I thought the mushrooms were photosynthetic or whatever.. Didn't think they "ate".
(So we just got an anenome and the shrimp went after it immediately!! What a bastard!!) ------------- Clearfield, UT. |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: September 03 2007 at 10:50pm
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Most mushrooms are partially photosynthetic they also take particles from the water collumn. Some mushrooms will eat fish if they get a chance.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: PDoug
Date Posted: September 15 2007 at 12:17am
Buy an Undulated trigger and you never need worry about that shrimp again Or any other tank inhabitant ------------- (307)679-7898 Phillip Douglass 75 Gallon Reef Tank |
Posted By: CowFish
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 9:10pm
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Well after a while of looking rather down in the dumps our mushroom seems to have split! The sections don't look as well as the "whole" piece did but they certainly don't look like they're going to die.
Anyway, just wanted to update.
------------- Clearfield, UT. |
Posted By: Gahlenfr
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 9:17pm
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Yes they do look pathetic when they are splitting. I have also noticed that when my ph drops my shrooms are not as happy. The are my ph indicator. |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 10:23pm
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That's great. Two for the price of one!
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: eldiente
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 1:26am
As this was a hitchhiker, looks more like Two for the price of none! ------------- Brian Twin Falls, Idaho 210 Gallon Glass reef |
Mike Savage wrote:Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 8:52am
That's even better!
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Debbles
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 9:38am
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I like those kind of deals!
Deb  ------------- Yes Mikey...I still have fins!!! |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 9:53am
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Just about all corals eat. All that I can think of do. Your mushrooms most certainly will take in food. Hairy mushrooms can be directly fed and you can watch them close up and eat krill or silversides or anything. The feeding presentation <---- (under presentations) has video of this.
Usually the brown stringy stuff is coral poop.
Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |