Is this how a mushroom should look?

[Robert Binz]

I bought a mushroom and RODI water from my LFS. The RODI water turned out to have crazy high ammonia (smelled foul + Red Sea test confirmed). Therefore, I wasn’t able to do a proper quarantine/dip bc my tank is only 5 gallons (little water to spare).

So to avoid flatworms I just took a coffee mug full of water and dropped in 1/4 capful of revive and let him sit for 5 minutes. I took him out after 5 minutes because he looked ticked. I saw a few things jump off him but they looked like copepods.

This is a pic of him in my tank (I think detaching from the rock) for his own protection I’ve cut the bottom off of a plastic bottle and placed it over him so there’s no current on him.

My main question is how he looks underneith... is that how he should look?

 

[Robert Binz]

Now he’s just staring @ me with his mouth open

 

[cracker]

doesn't look too bad

 

[MTBake]

It should pull through fine. Just give it some time.

 

[Robert Binz]

It should pull through fine. Just give it some time.

Should I leave the plastic cover over him? He was rocking in the flow a lot and I was worried he’d get ripped off.

The flow is generated by a 35g HOB filter on the 5.5g tank

 

[MTBake]

Should I leave the plastic cover over him? He was rocking in the flow a lot and I was worried he’d get ripped off.

The flow is generated by a 35g HOB filter on the 5.5g tank

I would take the cover off. It may very well detach from the frag plug. It will find a spot it prefers and anchor down if this happens. That will be the spot the mushroom coral prefers, ime.

 

[Robert Binz]

I would take the cover off. It may very well detach from the frag plug. It will find a spot it prefers and anchor down if this happens. That will be the spot the mushroom coral prefers, ime.

Okay! I was just worried about the filter intake