Floridia mushrooms disappeared?

creativeballance · Jul 23, 2020

I had 4 floridia mushrooms in my tank. One disappeared a few weeks ago. I noticed tonight that two more have disappeared...
I dont think I have anything that would eat the entire things, but I haven't any idea where they could have gone. I have a Yuma shroom colony nearby, and it looks fine?

Any ideas?

lazycouch · Jul 24, 2020

creativeballance said:
I had 4 floridia mushrooms in my tank. One disappeared a few weeks ago. I noticed tonight that two more have disappeared...
I dont think I have anything that would eat the entire things, but I haven't any idea where they could have gone. I have a Yuma shroom colony nearby, and it looks fine?

Any ideas?

they could have detached and are now somewhere hiding in or on your liverock maybe?

Waters · Jul 24, 2020

I had a whole colony of them disappear overnight in the same way.....had them for over a year. I never found out what caused them to disintegrate so quickly.

creativeballance · Jul 24, 2020

lazycouch said:
they could have detached and are now somewhere hiding in or on your liverock maybe?

I've looked around, but I dont see them...unless they buried themselves under the sand...?

creativeballance · Jul 24, 2020

Waters said:
I had a whole colony of them disappear overnight in the same way.....had them for over a year. I never found out what caused them to disintegrate so quickly.

That is weird...I know they can detach, but I normally dont see them go far.
And I doubt any animal in the tank would suddenly decide to eat all of them...

Reefer1978 · Jul 24, 2020

Any new livestock in the tank? Torches/hammers?

creativeballance · Jul 24, 2020

Reefer1978 said:
Any new livestock in the tank? Torches/hammers?

I've added a couple of urchins (Halloween and pincushion) recently but the first one disappeared before that occurred.

Thaxxx · Jul 24, 2020

They are still in there.
In the rocks somewhere. I've had many disappear, and find them months later when they've grown out.

creativeballance · Jul 24, 2020

Thaxxx said:
They are still in there.
In the rocks somewhere. I've had many disappear, and find them months later when they've grown out.

I hope so! Thanks!

Reefer1978 · Jul 24, 2020

Only time I had mushrooms disappear overnight is when I brought in BJD from torches, and it got to the mushrooms and they melted. Otherwise they probably just detached and floated somewhere into rock work (also not great news).

Cory · Jul 25, 2020

They will die failry easy from a few things. Carbon dosing, peroxide dosing, and super high light.

creativeballance · Jul 26, 2020

Cory said:
They will die failry easy from a few things. Carbon dosing, peroxide dosing, and super high light.

I did use a bit of peroxide recently to spot treat some algae. About 15ml in a 160 system.

Cory · Jul 26, 2020

creativeballance said:
I did use a bit of peroxide recently to spot treat some algae. About 15ml in a 160 system.

I would suspect it then. What percentage is the bottle you used?

creativeballance · Jul 26, 2020

Cory said:
I would suspect it then. What percentage is the bottle you used?

3%

creativeballance · Jul 28, 2020

I was cleaning rocks, and I did find a mushroom that "fell off". The thing is...this one looks nothing like the others that went missing. Its almost a lime green, and the others were a dark green, blue, or purple.