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I recently added a gold colored mushroom to my reef tank. The first day he was great...over night he detached from the rock he was on and vanished. a day later while doing a water change he showed up my changing bucket as he was sucked through the hose. His color is gone and he's fairly closed up and appears to dying. Any idea if he'll make a come back or any things I should be doing or trying to do for him?

Super bummed out and thankful for any help I can get.

Thanks,
Jon

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Looks pretty rough. I’d say its unlikely you could try a dip and put it in some sort of container so it doesn’t drift away.
 

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I recently added a gold colored mushroom to my reef tank. The first day he was great...over night he detached from the rock he was on and vanished. a day later while doing a water change he showed up my changing bucket as he was sucked through the hose. His color is gone and he's fairly closed up and appears to dying. Any idea if he'll make a come back or any things I should be doing or trying to do for him?

Super bummed out and thankful for any help I can get.

Thanks,
Jon

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I doubt it. I've did this with a couple of mushrooms and they survived.

Put it in a container with rubble in a low flow area. It should attach to the rubble.
 
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thanks the ideas....does anyone have a pic of one in a dish? I'm unsure what that will look like.
 

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thanks the ideas....does anyone have a pic of one in a dish? I'm unsure what that will look like.
Small Tupperware dish with enough rubble to cover the bottom. In a very low flow area. Sorry I deleted all my pics
 
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Okay, so check this out....cut a tupperware cup down and filled bottom with sand. He is sitting in there...will that do it?

added a pic of my other stuff too...

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Theeyre tough specimens. Allow to settle and take its' course. A lot of handling will only stress it
 

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Okay, so check this out....cut a tupperware cup down and filled bottom with sand. He is sitting in there...will that do it?

added a pic of my other stuff too...

mushroom quarantine.jpg full tank.jpg
If you have some rubble it will give it something to attach to
 

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