Do anyone else’s mushrooms constantly go missing?

[AydenLincoln]

I know mushrooms move but one day I’ll have a whole colony of them and then the next they disappeared/moved and I can’t find them. And/or I see their babies in other spots months later. I just want to admire them in one spot and for them to not constantly disappear and occasionally reappear on me lol. I should mention obvious causes may be I had a bit of a struggle with bjd and sometimes I think my star gets hungry. And then there’s this big guy and lots of babies. It sucks because so many mushrooms I love have gone missing suddenly over the years. So for my mushroom lovers please tell me this happens to you too.

 

[DanyL]

In 17 years I only encountered mass mushroom bailout only once and it was specifically with blue and red Discosomas during a tank upgrade.

Obviously, transferring large amounts of live stock between 2 tanks is a huge logistical effort, and while I tried my best to keep everything as stressless as possible - there could be many different variables in play here that could’ve influence and trigger it.

However, based on a few other mass release events I seen in other people tanks, temperature induced stress would be my best guess.

 

[AydenLincoln]

In 17 years I only encountered mass mushroom bailout only once and it was specifically with blue and red Discosomas during a tank upgrade.

Obviously, transferring large amounts of live stock between 2 tanks is a huge logistical effort, and while I tried my best to keep everything as stressless as possible - there could be many different variables in play here that could’ve influence and trigger it.

However, based on a few other mass release events I seen in other people tanks, temperature induced stress would be my best guess.

Hmm that makes sense actually. I have had some temperature issues over the years in fact I just had one. But the issue was solved as I needed to replace the temp probe on the Apex.

 

[DanyL]

Let them settle in and see how they react in the following coming months, if they stay in place then hopefully it was indeed the root cause here, which was already been taken cared off and nothing else.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

My mushrooms are expensive, I would freak if they randomly disappeared. Are you sure you don't have any mushroom munchers in your tank?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I've never once had my mushroom go missing.

 

[AydenLincoln]

My mushrooms are expensive, I would freak if they randomly disappeared. Are you sure you don't have any mushroom munchers in your tank?

As I said my mushroom muncher is probably my starfish. And these were cheap mushrooms/not very expensive although I love all mushrooms the only one unique one stays in a cage but that’s more because he floats around and he’s actually a purple sponge lol but he looks like a mushroom. The other mushrooms are anchored in different places but if I ever spent a lot of money or loved a mushroom even more than I do he’d be in a cage.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Never had a mushroom dislodge but rather colonize on rock and glass

 

[McPuff]

I wish some of my mushrooms would go missing! :0) Some of them end up in spots where I really don't want them. And then it's really tough to get rid of them.

 

[kvansloo]

High flow makes mine move. They don't seam to like high flow

 

[kevgib67]

Mushrooms have been my Achilles heel. I’ve probably put 10 different ones in my tank in over 2 1/2 years. All I have left are blue mushroom that let go. I eventually spotted near the back. It dropped 3 babies and let go and I haven’t seen again. I have an orange rhodactis that split and one let go not to be seen again. I have no problems with any other corals, sps, lps or other softies.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Mushrooms have been my Achilles heel. I’ve probably put 10 different ones in my tank in over 2 1/2 years. All I have left are blue mushroom that let go. I eventually spotted near the back. It dropped 3 babies and let go and I haven’t seen again. I have an orange rhodactis that split and one let go not to be seen again. I have no problems with any other corals, sps, lps or other softies.

I knew I couldn’t be the only one.:)

 

[JayM]

My problem is quite the opposite. It seems that every time I look there's a new one.

 

[Jjmg]

I've never had a colony decide to bale but many of mine will grow babies and after a colony is established one will let go and float around to find a new spot to start a new colony. About the only kind I haven't had do this is ricordia.

 

[BeanAnimal]

I wish all of mine would go missing

 

[kevgib67]

I knew I couldn’t be the only one.:)

At the Maritime Aquarium in CT. Thought you might like this. Herbie II.

 

[AydenLincoln]

At the Maritime Aquarium in CT. Thought you might like this. Herbie II.

It’s a spiny box Hewbie!:star-struck:

 

[sbbk]

In 17 years I only encountered mass mushroom bailout only once and it was specifically with blue and red Discosomas during a tank upgrade.

Obviously, transferring large amounts of live stock between 2 tanks is a huge logistical effort, and while I tried my best to keep everything as stressless as possible - there could be many different variables in play here that could’ve influence and trigger it.

However, based on a few other mass release events I seen in other people tanks, temperature induced stress would be my best guess.

i just had 2 very large bright orange mushrooms disappear. Both dropped babies then disappeared. I found one, but the other remains missing a week later. I think it may be shrunken and tiny and buried in the rockwork. I hope they reappear as they were a highlight in the tank.

 

[DanyL]

What I described above was a mass bailout event - where tens, if not hundred+ mushrooms dropped and disappeared over a period of just a few days.
Some popped up in different locations later on, others were never to be seen again (likely got stuck somewhere between the rocks).

When you have just a few mushrooms disappear, especially when the drop babies beforehand, it can be due to a more wide variety of reasons. Sometimes it's too much light or flow, and depending on their species, it can also simply be part of their reproductive mechanism.

 

[Mark Goode]

I've only got one mushroom. I put it where I thought it would do well, but it never opened fully and, after trying a few more locations, I'd written it off. One day it was gone - only to reappear later on the opposite side of the tank, where my plague of kenya trees restrict both light and flow. It seems to be doing okay though.