Melting Yuma mushrooms!! Can they be saved?

Discussion in 'Corals' started by NatalieMadison, Feb 10, 2017.

  1. :eek::eek::eek:
    Well, my fun bubbly and gorgeous Yuma purple green and brown mushrooms are having a tough time acclimating. Last week they started spitting out their zooxanthellea. I wish my lighting was adjustable!

    I added shade film, but I don't think it's enough and I wasn't fast enough to react. Unfortunately the rock is well adhered and forms part of the structure to the Starry Blenny Cave and I can't tear it down or move it to a darker area in this tiny nano cube.

    2 of the mushrooms have melted away in the past day. (I read that they can do this if they aren't adjusting well.) Several are very pale and shrunken.
    2 of the original 10 or so still have good color.

    Would it be possible for me to scrape them off the rock, without destroying them, to move them under the shade? Or would I just cause more damage and end up losing all of them?

    Thank you, :(
     
  2. When I got home today, the once fat yumas were shriveled to dime size. I used a sharp knife and did my best to dig up 4 of them. One was mush. The other three came off mostly intact. I've left 5 on the rock.

    Cross your fingers.
     
  3. huntindoc

    huntindoc RRMAS BOD Membership Director Staff Member

    That's weird. Hopefully someone can chime in. I've always struggled with mushrooms, they just slowly melt away in my tank for some reason. Hopt the remainder cheer up!
     
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  4. Kim

    Kim Secretary Staff Member

    Hiya,

    Most of my mushrooms are just normal's. I've got them near the top with T5's and near the top and bottom under compacts. They're all doing well. I didn't have luck with yuma's. Maybe John could pipe up and help. He knows mushrooms really well.

    Kim/Benton, AR
     
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  5. Deton8it

    Deton8it President Staff Member

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  6. I think I just blasted it with too much light...much more than it was used too...too fast. Unfortunately, I was spending a lot of time working the bakery and not enough time observing that they were having issues. The tank's been a consistent 78 degrees. (My hubby is a polar bear, so the air conditioner has bee running most days.) They started spitting up their benificial algae on day 2. I should have moved them right then and there. Ugh. They were so pretty too.

    The other variety I have seems quite happy, has been eating mysis and expanding beautifully through the day. It's is on the top row of my reef, but further back aginst the wall, so not directly under the lights. I got it several days after the first variety, so it had the benefit of the shade film over that portion of the lighting right away. It's actually reaching toward the light...which is pretty cool. It might be a Ricordia Florida though...versus a yuma. Man...that yuma was stunning. I'll have to try again in the 65 gallon tank. I'm not holding out much luck that these remaining 3 are going to make it. I dropped the lighting down to 5 hours a day to see if I can get them to hang in there. Cross your fingers.
     
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    Here's a pic from today. The top rock with the green mushrooms have fluffed and expanded. (Lights have been off for about 7 hours.). These seem happy. Are these Florida?

    In the bare patch in the green star polyps, you can see what's left of the yumas.

    On the happy side...that suncoral is thinking about dinner time.
     
  8. Deton8it

    Deton8it President Staff Member

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  9. huntindoc

    huntindoc RRMAS BOD Membership Director Staff Member

    That looks like what I call Green Hairy mushrooms. I had one of those and it grew way too fast for my liking. It can be invasive I believe. I think that I'm talking about the same thing John is.
     
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  10. Deton8it

    Deton8it President Staff Member

    We are Doc. There are several different species of mushrooms that share that same common name. Some are Discoma Species, some are Rhodactis Species, they all get pretty large though.
     
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  11. Possibly! Maybe that's why it hasn't sunburned. Much hardier.

    My guy's tentacle "bumps" for lack of better word fatten at the end and many are branching. And, it's hard to tell in the photo, but they seem to radiate from the center, similar to spokes on a wagon wheel. These guys are pretty bumby though.

    Something else I just noticed were an amassing of new little "bugs" where the yumas were. Fast moving, barely visible, slightly tan critters, bodies about 3 times as long as they are wide. At first I thought it was a figment of my imagination. When I turned on the lights there was movement...but then I couldn't see them again. Turned the lights on a little later, and there were at least 12 scattering about. I'm hoping theyre just cleaning out the residue and not the cause of the mushrooms' demise.
     
  12. I do have one rhodactis green...he's off to the far right above the lobo. Single mushroom. He's a vibrant green and for some reason I find him very attractive. I think I like green. :) He's not eating though. I'm waiting on some pellets to get here in hopes that he will be more reactive.
     
  13. But you guys are right...he's not quite patterned like the ricordea in google search images. Whatever it is...he's okay with my lights.
    John, Doc, how much fluctuation can a tank have in temp before things go squishy? Are we talking 1 degree difference?
     
  14. Deton8it

    Deton8it President Staff Member

    No, tanks can fluctuate quite a bit and still be ok. With that said, heater failure is one of the easiest way to crash a tank. Normally it happens from a heater sticking in the "On" position.
     
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  15. Did you mention in an earlier thread that you have a sort of "safety" set up to keep your heaters in check?
     
  16. Botheboss

    Botheboss Director-At Large

    I think corals can tolerate lower temps it's the hotter ones that kill as long as it's not below 72 degrees. I watched a video from macna not to long ago where a marine biologist had place sensors on different depths of a reef. They found that it's not uncommon for the temp to rise or drop 12 degrees thought the day.
     
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  17. Deton8it

    Deton8it President Staff Member

    I use my aquarium controller as my safety. I have it set up to turn on at 77.9 and turn off at 78.1. if you don't have a controller then I suggest buying a new heater every year.
     
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  18. LJC6780

    LJC6780 Grouper

    I apparently can't keep yumas either. All of the ones I've had have slowly shriveled and detached. Maybe I'll try again someday but I don't think my tank is stable enough right now. On the other hand, my plain old mushroom rock (rusty in normal light and green in blue light) is thriving!
     

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