Mushroom looking weird

ahunter26 · Jan 26, 2024

Hello! Im new to aquariums and I’m a little worried about my mushroom coral. I’ve had it for about 3 months and up until yesterday it looked super healthy and it was actually getting huge. This evening it looked like something happened to it almost like it got burnt. Then I tried feeding it and it acted normally closing up. No I looked at it again and is super tiny and secreting some sort of white goo. It looks super stressed and not happy. I only have 2 clown fish a peppermint shrimp snails and hermit crabs. Should I be worried? I’m attachI guess pictures from earlier and the white stuff that I see now. Plz help me!

tzabor10 · Jan 26, 2024

What are your parameters? How long has the game and been up? What is your lighting?

Rocktron1 · Jan 26, 2024

Did you by any chance dose Carbonate or something similar?

ahunter26 · Jan 26, 2024

tzabor10 said:
What are your parameters? How long has the game and been up? What is your lighting?

The tank is about 4 months old. The only things that I’ve been testing is nítrate ammonia and ph. Nitrate is 10pm, ammonia 0, and ph is 8. Just changed my light to an AI prime 16hd because the light that came with the tank was not good.

ahunter26 · Jan 26, 2024

Rocktron1 said:
Did you by any chance dose Carbonate or something similar?

I don’t dose anything

Rocktron1 · Jan 26, 2024

Ok. It could just be reacting to the change in new light. Should settle down

My mushrooms have had white excrement before directly after I've dosed carbonate if I don't mix it with water well enough. But it only lasted about 6hrs or so then 24hrs later back to normal

The prime hd 16 is a great light, I have the same thing and if you look at my build thread the mushies love it!!!!

ahunter26 · Jan 27, 2024

Rocktron1 said:
Ok. It could just be reacting to the change in new light. Should settle down

My mushrooms have had white excrement before directly after I've dosed carbonate if I don't mix it with water well enough. But it only lasted about 6hrs or so then 24hrs later back to normal

The prime hd 16 is a great light, I have the same thing and if you look at my build thread the mushies love it!!!!

Thanks!!! it’s looking a little better and I love the light! It looks so much better than before I’m really happy other than this little issue.