Bouncing?

[GiraffeShepherd]

Ive had these unkown orange variety mushroom for a few years, this morning i woke up and found this:

A bubble on one of the mushrooms, in the bubble i can see what looks like a white line or vein.

Ive never seen this on my mushrooms before. I was also hoping to confirm ID on my mushrooms. I also have what i was told were green hairy mushrooms, and some variety of purple mushroom.

 

[tbrown]

The orange one is bouncing. Those are Rhodactis mushrooms.

The green are green hairy mushrooms which are a variety of Rhodactis as well.

The purple is also a Rhodactis variety.

 

[GiraffeShepherd]

The orange one is bouncing. Those are Rhodactis mushrooms.

The green are green hairy mushrooms which are a variety of Rhodactis as well.

The purple is also a Rhodactis variety.

Thanks! Do we know what causes them to bounce? Ive had a hard time finding anything about it more recent than 2022, and seemed like its either defense mechanism from high light or cancer.

One a mushroom bounces, do they stay that way? Or do they revert when conditions change? I did see people discussing shrinking, but not complete reversion.

Always liked how bounce mushrooms looked, very unique, but never enough to spring a few hundred for. Exciting to have one develop in my tank!

Thanks,

 

[tbrown]

Back when I was looking all I could find was that it was thought to be caused by intense blue light, often from LEDs but I don't think there was ever any indefinite proof one way or the other.

 

[tbrown]

I had one bounce and then lose the bounce when I moved it to a different tank but it wasn't as big of a bounce as most have.

I did have a Favia bounce but the bubble eventually deflated and the head slowly shrank back to normal afterwards. It took a few weeks to shrink.

 

[GiraffeShepherd]

Back when I was looking all I could find was that it was thought to be caused by intense blue light, often from LEDs but I don't think there was ever any indefinite proof one way or the other.

Interesting... nothing has changed in the lighting department, but i have increased my maintenance regimen after a period of marginal neglect due to some health issues...

White bucket test from about a month ago. ( all parameters were good, other than really high phosphates)

Maybe an increase in par resulting from reduced organics from getting protein skimmer up and running again and a slew of water changes.

 

[GiraffeShepherd]

Just adding that i found one of my green hairy mushrooms seems to be bouncing as well

 

[tubbie]

I have a few that bounced, but moved them to another tank and they are starting to go away. Took only 2 days to go flat.