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Hey!
So, a few months ago I purchased my first coral. A pulsing Xenia that came with 2 hitchhiking mushrooms (Probably discosomas). 3 days ago the bigger mushroom started to show it's mesenterial filaments for a few minutes and today it did it again for a few hours.
I've been struggling with a lot of things in the tank recently (including a broken sump, a light malfunction and a power outage in just 2 weeks) but everything's been coming back really well.
The mushroom in question actually moved itself to it's current location which is just beneath my pulsing xenia. I'm wondering if the Xenia itself is making the mushroom "upset" and this is why it's showing it's filaments (the xenia looks great for the moment) or if it's something else.
Also, today I added a little bit of Kh buffer just before the filaments incident, maybe this is the reason?
My parameters are not excellent, especially my PO4 and NO3 which still show 0 on the tests but I've made some changes to start to get them up and it seems like it's working.
Salinity: 1.025 (Refractometer)
Ammonia: 0 (API test kit)
Nitrite: 0 (API test kit)
Nitrate: 0 (API test kit) (I've been struggling a lot with my low nutrients)
Alkalinty: 7.5-8.0 (I've been dosing some Kh buffer every other day to get it closer to 8.0)
Phosphate: 0 (Salifert test kit) (I've been struggling a lot with my low nutrients)
Calcium: around 410 (A bit low also)
Pulsing xenia
Mushroom corals
Green star polyp
3 Mexican turbos
Small ball of chaeto in the sump
PS: the first photo is a FEW MONTHS OLD and the other two are TODAY
So, a few months ago I purchased my first coral. A pulsing Xenia that came with 2 hitchhiking mushrooms (Probably discosomas). 3 days ago the bigger mushroom started to show it's mesenterial filaments for a few minutes and today it did it again for a few hours.
I've been struggling with a lot of things in the tank recently (including a broken sump, a light malfunction and a power outage in just 2 weeks) but everything's been coming back really well.
The mushroom in question actually moved itself to it's current location which is just beneath my pulsing xenia. I'm wondering if the Xenia itself is making the mushroom "upset" and this is why it's showing it's filaments (the xenia looks great for the moment) or if it's something else.
Also, today I added a little bit of Kh buffer just before the filaments incident, maybe this is the reason?
My parameters are not excellent, especially my PO4 and NO3 which still show 0 on the tests but I've made some changes to start to get them up and it seems like it's working.
Salinity: 1.025 (Refractometer)
Ammonia: 0 (API test kit)
Nitrite: 0 (API test kit)
Nitrate: 0 (API test kit) (I've been struggling a lot with my low nutrients)
Alkalinty: 7.5-8.0 (I've been dosing some Kh buffer every other day to get it closer to 8.0)
Phosphate: 0 (Salifert test kit) (I've been struggling a lot with my low nutrients)
Calcium: around 410 (A bit low also)
Pulsing xenia
Mushroom corals
Green star polyp
3 Mexican turbos
Small ball of chaeto in the sump
PS: the first photo is a FEW MONTHS OLD and the other two are TODAY