Is my Mushroom dying or splitting?

[Aronsaquarium]

Hi,
I’m new to corals/mushrooms.
I got this mushroom a couple weeks ago, he was totally happy larger until yesterday.
Then he got a small hole last night and it looks like he’s opening himself up from the inside..
The hole doubled in size today and this white squiggly things keep on moving to different positions in the hole.

is the mushroom dying or splitting or something else?

thanks

 

[Lavey29]

Did something nip at it maybe?

 

[Aronsaquarium]

My angels may have taken a nip at it. Though I’ve never seen it interested in it.
But I’ve been watching it make the whole bigger on its own from where I can see..

 

[Lavey29]

When my shrooms split it doesn't look like that. It's like a slow complete tear almost straight down the middle with no visible sign of injury and it takes quite a few days to separate. Although some have said they propagate them with a clean incision.

 

[rhostam]

I’ve seen that with my ricordias. They ended up splitting. Whether the protruding mesenterial filaments are a result of trauma (by fish, etc) and caused the split, or it just decided to split and they were excused is unknown. If it starts to shrivel and disintegrate, then I’d worry.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Not a split but looks like either filaments or tissue damage

 

[Aronsaquarium]

Thanks so much!
So I guts I just have to give it more time to see what happens?

 

[rhostam]

Thanks so much!
So I guts I just have to give it more time to see what happens?

Is it attached to a surface? Or free floating? If it’s free floating, see if you can offer out some protection to restate itself. If it’s still attached, just keep an eye on it. They’re pretty resilient.

 

[Aronsaquarium]

Thanks so much!
Yeah it’s still attached.
It just seems like it’s tearing itself open..
I’ll give it some time to see what happens

 

[TSizzlee]

My og bounce did that from the mouth. I waited a few days still no change. So i cut it in half bc why not i thought it was going to die anyways, now i have two. but i dont have an angel in my tank.

 

[Mystersynyster]

My rhodactis do that when they split at times, mouth turns white and separates. I have even seen live rock coming through the mushroom as it split

 

[Mystersynyster]

Bad pic

 

[DonJuanAntwon]

That’s what my forest fire Rhodactis mushroom looked like when it split. Starts white a white/blueish spot that then opens up and looks like white filamentous tissue, then it split. I’m new to so I thought something was going on, now I got two good sized forest fire Rhodactis mushrooms. Also, mine didn’t split exactly in the middle either. I’ll find some old pics and post them.