Bleached mushroom... what to do now?

[Jesse Sunday]

Hi all,

First of all, can someone confirm that this coral (top center, orange) is bleached, or is it just not happy in general? (it's actually less "orange" IRL, I think my phone bumps up the saturation)

Second, if it is too close to the lights... is there a safe way to remove it? It's really latched onto the rock.

Thanks!

 

[blaxsun]

It actually looks fine from where I'm viewing. I generally just leave my mushrooms alone unless they become attached, something is stinging them or they can be moved on an existing rock/frag plug.

You have a lot of algae growth in the back so you might want to deal (scrape) with that sooner as opposed to later. Without knowing your PAR, flow or lighting it's hard to recommend any changes (other than if everything else is doing fine they're probably fine).

 

[Jesse Sunday]

It actually looks fine from where I'm viewing. I generally just leave my mushrooms alone unless they become attached, something is stinging them or they can be moved on an existing rock/frag plug.

You have a lot of algae growth in the back so you might want to deal (scrape) with that sooner as opposed to later. Without knowing your PAR, flow or lighting it's hard to recommend any changes (other than if everything else is doing fine they're probably fine).

Thanks for your reply. I have an urchin and three snails that I thought would do a better job at keeping the algae under control... (as well as a sump full of thriving Chaeto) but as you can see, it's flourishing on the back.

Lighting is the stock Biocube 32 LED.

I'll leave him alone for now I guess. I just thought he'd be more striking orange.

Thanks!

 

[blaxsun]

Urchins are generally really good with algae - but I think you may have bitten off more than he can "chew", so to speak.

 

[Stephen Glover]

Sometimes if you slip a frag disk next to it, it will attach itself.