Bounce Mushroom Issues

[benscorals]

I have had my bounces for about 4 months now and some of them are growing really fast and opening well and the Sunkist and green bounce are not opening. Can anyone tell me why this could be? Here are some pictures of all the mushrooms now.

 

[T-J]

I don't own any, but I do know they typically like low flow, low-med light and a "dirtier" tank (nutrients).

I noticed you are barebottom. Not sure if that might be contributing to the issue.

 

[MERKEY]

How old is your tank?

What are your parameters?

What light and par are you using?

How is the flow?

 

[benscorals]

It’s 6 months old, I feed 3 times a day. I’m running 2 radion xr15s with a t5 hybrid with blue plus bulbs. There is quite a lot of low in the tank but they were fine with the same amount of flow for months and all of the sudden started shrinking.
calc- 440
Alk- 9
Phos- 0
Nítrate-0
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Salt- 1.026
Ph-8.00

 

[T-J]

I say too many zeros. Get some phos and nitrate in that tank.

 

[MERKEY]

I say too many zeros. Get some phos and nitrate in that tank.

Second this....

Mushrooms are a dirty coral.

When I say dirty I mean they like some nitrates and phosphate in the water.

Phos .05-.1
Nitrate 10 times the phos. Shoot for 5-10

If you keep both at 0 for much longer I'm thinking you may run into some nasty algea.

 

[Fourstars]

If your skimming dump a cup of that skim mate back in or just turn off the skimmer. They look pretty good to me.

 

[benscorals]

How else can I increase the nitrates and phosphates?

 

[MERKEY]

Feed more

Stop skimming

 

[benscorals]

Ok great thanks.

 

[Fourstars]

Till your new tank is producing you could also dose. Just do the math, go sloww with constant testing.