Code red : my bounce mushroom needs CPR

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My tank is completely healthy and the parameters are perfect. My bounds mushroom has started to shrink and a whole has formed in the middle with some white warmish got spewing out. Any idea what this is and or what remedy I can use to reverse this?
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My tank is completely healthy and the parameters are perfect. My bounds mushroom has started to shrink and a whole has formed in the middle with some white warmish got spewing out. Any idea what this is and or what remedy I can use to reverse this?

What testing kit are you using? Have you verified your water parameters at a LFS or other source?

#reefsquad #bounce #bouncemushroom #mushroom
 

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Typically a shroom like this is a goner and will melt. I have been able to successfully slice off a foot piece to at least grow a new one from. Wish I knew that when this happened to my eclectus shroom.

Cut at your own risk but what your seeing almost always leads to a melted shroom. Iodine dips will prolong the time it takes to melt but I was not able to save any that way.
 

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I wish I could help, but I have very little experience with mushrooms and never with sick ones. I'm always trying to figure out how to keep them from over growing stuff.

Good luck and hopefully other #ReefSquad members will be more helpful.
 

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The mushroom could be damaged one treatment that I have used a dip in a solution of Lugol's iodine.
This will stop any bacteria infection of the mushroom.
 

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