What is happening?!

[WillB]

I’ve got spaghetti pouring out my brain! And apparently my mushrooms too now!

Now I know these aren’t as fancy as some of the ones you see on here but my other corals all seem fine! (Except for one but that was due to improper light acclimation of my toadstool. He’s recovering now!) these guys have been in the tank for over a month and have been healthy looking. Could something have squished them? My fighting conch likes to climb the rocks even though he falls right off. Is this guts? Worms? Something else?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Can you provide us with your water paraneters? Are there any corals nearby that may be fighting with them or any fish or inverts picking at them? Also how intense is your lighting?

 

[WillB]

I would be happy to!
50g tank
Lighting: reefbreeders v2 (running at 40%)
Flow: 2x650 and 1x800 gpm hydro power heads
Skimmer: Sea Side Aquatics ES1 Hang On Back Protein Skimmer (i don’t remember what it’s rated for but I would guess 75g maybe 100g)
Filtration: Aquaclear 70 running mechanical, carbon, biological, and Phosban media
Dosing: B-Ionic esv 2 part calcium and alcalinity, and B-Ionic esv magnesium
And as of yesterday...
Calcium: 430
Alkalinity: 9.9 dkH
Magnesium: 1200 (slowly raising this to 1300)
Testing with Salifert kits
As of two days ago...
Ammonia: 0ppm
pH: 8.2
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
Testing with API kit
I haven’t done any testing for phosphates as I’m running the phosban and have no reason to believe they are off.
Water changes: 5g every two or three weeks
Bio load: 2 clowns, 2 sexy shrimp, 1 Florida fighting conch, assorted hermits and snails
Corals: toadstool leather, frogspawn, teeny tiny zoa colony, sunset monti, red monti cap, GSP, 2 orange/purple riccordias, pulsing xenia, and these two little mushroom guys who don’t look so hot!

 

[WillB]

I have them in a low/medium flow and low/medium light spot

 

[WillB]

Oh! And a neon orange plate coral!

 

[WillB]

Iv had these clowns for 5 years but this tank was born in early January

 

[WillB]

Oh! And I feed every other day. Alternating frozen brine and Thera sinking pellets. Target feed the plate and frogspawn once a week each alternating each time

 

[Crabs McJones]

What is your salinity?

 

[WillB]

1.024 but I haven’t checked it in a while. It shouldn’t have changed much in the last few days though. The only thing I’ve done is increase my magnesium dose from 8ml/day to 15ml/day to get it up to where I want. They were doing this before I made that change. And top off my water with fw and I did that after I made this post! Haha

 

[Crabs McJones]

Just trying to go through all the basics before I call in the reinforcements you're using ro/di water for your top off and water changes?

 

[WillB]

I totally get it! Iv read too many forums of people realizing it was some beginner thing they overlooked that nuked their tank to be insulted!

 

[WillB]

Yes I use RO for top offs and salt water from my LFS down the block (its easier than mixing it when it’s this close) and they keep some great looking SPS using it so I trust it well enough

 

[Crabs McJones]

I'll get the rest of #reefsquad on board and see if someone may know

 

[WillB]

Woop woop! Im thinking more and more that they just got squished. They are the only thing that have responded like this and apart from my toadstool, which is slowly regaining its health, everything looks healthy. My frogspawn actually looks better than it did in the store which is a first for me! Haha

 

[Diesel]

All looks normal in your tank.
Have it ever occurred to you that corals do poop so now and then
If this is brown stringy stuff is coming from the mouth we just talking coral poop.
If it's in the side of the coral it could be slime dicease and in most cases you coral will be history.
But as good as your corals look in the pic I wouldn't be worried.

 

[WillB]

Sadly it does look like white wormy stuff on the sides. It’s just weird to me that both of them have it. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens!

 

[Diesel]

Sadly it does look like white wormy stuff on the sides. It’s just weird to me that both of them have it. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens!

Ugh!!
You have a clear close up picture of that?

 

[Tahoe61]

Sadly it does look like white wormy stuff on the sides. It’s just weird to me that both of them have it. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens!

Mesenterial Filaments, an internal structure of Corallmorpha/Mushrooms. Typically they resolve without intervention and often a sign of stress including acclimation stress.

 

[WillB]

I’m at work but I can later!