Bounce mushroom help !

[johnyboy]

Hey guys

I just bought a bounce recently and for some reason the bubbles are starting to disappear day by day. I spent a lot of money and hoping there's something you guys can help me with. Thanks!

 

[ahiggins]

Have you changed your lighting?
Mine shrunk when I increased the lighting a little bit.
(obviously I would start with whats your parameters lol but I know that the lighting was a big thing for mine)

 

[johnyboy]

My water is preety perfect. And I have it on the sand bed in the middle it's not directly under my lights so weird. I spent a lot of money and will be so devastating if it dies on me already lost two nice bubbles

 

[wish]

Need pict to see what you are talking about.
Its normal to have small bubbles and shrink when light is off or very low light.

I"m thinking it just need time to settle to your talk. Low light and flow to start.

 

[deaclauderdale]

My water is preety perfect. And I have it on the sand bed in the middle it's not directly under my lights so weird. I spent a lot of money and will be so devastating if it dies on me already lost two nice bubbles

'Perfection' can be relative, can you provide some actual numbers? While I am not a bounce expert, poor water quality and lighting both could be causes, but it's a bit difficult to rule out water quality without numbers.

 

[ahiggins]

My water is preety perfect. And I have it on the sand bed in the middle it's not directly under my lights so weird. I spent a lot of money and will be so devastating if it dies on me already lost two nice bubbles

I totally understand. I went through the same thing about 3 weeks ago when mine shrunk because of the lights. Once I ramped my lights back down, it started to come back...slowly.
Lets see your parameters and light schedule?

 

[johnyboy]

Calcium 420
Alk 8
Mag 1350
Salinity 1.025

I have aquaillumination hydras and 2 54 watt T5 bulbs. I have it positioned in the middle front of the tank and it's not directly under any lights

 

[ahiggins]

How long have you had the tank?
How long have you had the bounce?
Pic of the bounce?
I'm not worried about nitrates unless they're above like 50 lol

 

[johnyboy]

Had tank coming on 2 years the bounce has been in my tank for about a week and a half and I posted a picture

 

[pugcrush]

They can be finicky as far as the bubbles go. Is that a recent picture? It looks OK to me. Plus it may be getting adjusted to your lighting.

 

[johnyboy]

That's when I first got it. The tiny front bubble got bigger but I lost the bigger bubble and idk why. I will take a pic tomorrow when the lights are brighter. But I think I see three other bubbles forming in this pick on the right side if I'm correct? They look even more colorful or

 

[ahiggins]

I had 5 bubbles that shrunk back down when I upped the lights. I'm slowly getting them back down lol I wouldn't worry, they're pretty hard to kill from what I'm told