Fuzzy Mushrooms Melting

[Tikki]

I have had these fuzzy mushrooms in multiple systems now for a few years. They’ve always been very hardy and never had any issues until about two weeks ago they started getting this brown snot on the bottom and falling off the rock. I recently started trying Phos Feed and thought maybe they were irritated from particles settling on the top. Some were as wide as six inches across and I had around 40 in the main display before this started. Seemed to be the ones that lay more horizontal to the earth vs the ones that are growing vertical but could be a coincidence. I had a few flat worms so I did a mostly successful round of Flatworm Exit last week followed by a sizable water change about 30 hours later. When I discovered the first few melting I removed and vacuumed the necrotic tissue pretty quickly. Unfortunately I’m still losing one or two a day. One day they look fine then the next morning one will be retracted and then the melt starts shortly after. Parameters slightly elevated recently and I’ve adjusted dosing accordingly. Nitrates came up after flatworm treatment. Is this a form of brown jelly disease? No other corals seem affected aside from mushrooms. Maybe stressed them when I raised nitrate and phosphate? But other more sensitive corals didn’t seem bothered. Was hoping things would settle but doesn’t seem to be. Some look healthy and expanded. Hate to lose them all. They were covering a lot of the rock work.

1.0253
77F
8.2 ph
0.11 phosphate (previously typically around 0.01-0.05
15 nitrate (previously typically around 5)
Calcium 475
Magnesium 1410

 

[Rocks reef]

Do you have anything to dip them in? It sounds like a bacterial infection.

 

[Tikki]

Do you have anything to dip them in? It sounds like a bacterial infection.

So far I’ve tried to revive a couple by dipping in a peroxide water dip and moving to a different system but no luck. I will try iodine based dip next but most of them are still firmly attached to large rock structures with other corals unfortunately.

 

[Tikki]

I have had these fuzzy mushrooms in multiple systems now for a few years. They’ve always been very hardy and never had any issues until about two weeks ago they started getting this brown snot on the bottom and falling off the rock. I recently started trying Phos Feed and thought maybe they were irritated from particles settling on the top. Some were as wide as six inches across and I had around 40 in the main display before this started. Seemed to be the ones that lay more horizontal to the earth vs the ones that are growing vertical but could be a coincidence. I had a few flat worms so I did a mostly successful round of Flatworm Exit last week followed by a sizable water change about 30 hours later. When I discovered the first few melting I removed and vacuumed the necrotic tissue pretty quickly. Unfortunately I’m still losing one or two a day. One day they look fine then the next morning one will be retracted and then the melt starts shortly after. Parameters slightly elevated recently and I’ve adjusted dosing accordingly. Nitrates came up after flatworm treatment. Is this a form of brown jelly disease? No other corals seem affected aside from mushrooms. Maybe stressed them when I raised nitrate and phosphate? But other more sensitive corals didn’t seem bothered. Was hoping things would settle but doesn’t seem to be. Some look healthy and expanded. Hate to lose them all. They were covering a lot of the rock work.

1.0253
77F
8.2 ph
0.11 phosphate (previously typically around 0.01-0.05
15 nitrate (previously typically around 5)
Calcium 475
Magnesium 1410

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[Rocks reef]

Hmmm...
Do you have a picture of what's going on?

 

[Rocks reef]

LOL! I just asked for pics too

 

[Tikki]

 

[Rocks reef]

Let me reach out to some other members
@ReefSquad
@Jay Hemdal
@vetteguy53081

 

[vetteguy53081]

I see this happen when Phos is elevated, When not getting enough food ( I feed mine Mysis shrimp) and when there is too much flow

 

[Tikki]

I see this happen when Phos is elevated, When not getting enough food ( I feed mine Mysis shrimp) and when there is too much flow

No changes in flow and I believe phosphates were still pretty much where they had been at around 0.01-0.03 when it started. I had hoped increasing might help. It did coincide with trying Phos Feed a few times but levels hadn’t really increased much from 3 or 4 uses. Duncans also seemed really upset for couple days but they’re recovered. I ended up stopping phosfeed when things looked unhappy and raised phosphate later by increasing the Neo Phos doser. Phosphates in my system bottom out without it.