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Hi All,
Looking for some suggestions as to what may have happened to my mushrooms and devils hand. The tank has been established for 11 years and all parameters check out. Nitrates 0, Nitrites 0, pH 8.0, Alk .25 but I’m using a API kit, salinity 1.025, phosphates 0.
Noticed a few weeks ago that all of the mushrooms were shriveling up and becoming transparent. My devils hand also became slumped over. My fish also seemed very sluggish.
Started doing some additional testing and found that my heater was clearly failing and the water temp nose dived to around 63 F. Not good of course. Also discovered that my apex probe also failed and was reading the last know temp of 78. I’m not sure how I didn’t notice temp when my hand/arm was in the tank but needless to say I didn’t.
Got a new heater installed as quickly as possible but I have not idea how long the temp was that low. Temp came back with a couple of days. Fish are back to themselves but not the mushrooms or devils hand. Temp has been back to 78 for a a couple of weeks now and still not much of any change. The striped mushrooms are no longer shriveled but not much color and somewhat transparent.
The only thing I can think is that the low temp is the culprit.
Thoughts?
Looking for some suggestions as to what may have happened to my mushrooms and devils hand. The tank has been established for 11 years and all parameters check out. Nitrates 0, Nitrites 0, pH 8.0, Alk .25 but I’m using a API kit, salinity 1.025, phosphates 0.
Noticed a few weeks ago that all of the mushrooms were shriveling up and becoming transparent. My devils hand also became slumped over. My fish also seemed very sluggish.
Started doing some additional testing and found that my heater was clearly failing and the water temp nose dived to around 63 F. Not good of course. Also discovered that my apex probe also failed and was reading the last know temp of 78. I’m not sure how I didn’t notice temp when my hand/arm was in the tank but needless to say I didn’t.
Got a new heater installed as quickly as possible but I have not idea how long the temp was that low. Temp came back with a couple of days. Fish are back to themselves but not the mushrooms or devils hand. Temp has been back to 78 for a a couple of weeks now and still not much of any change. The striped mushrooms are no longer shriveled but not much color and somewhat transparent.
The only thing I can think is that the low temp is the culprit.
Thoughts?