oceanhealing4us
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hey my bro gave me a mushroom frag not sure what kind but iv only had fish only sys so iv never taken care of coral so tips and its been in my tank for about week and still has color but needs help!
mushroom care!?
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Caseyoidae
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try not to move it to much. If they get to much light they will basically melt so you'll know for sure if it's getting to much. These tend not to need a ton of light. Sometimes they take a while to bounce back but eventually they multiply like crazy.
andyg1960
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Yeah, don't continue to handle it. If you put it in the tank, depending on your lighting probably down near the bottom, does it open up after a while ( could be a day or so) or does it stay closed like in the photo? Also need more info about your system. Tank size, how long it's been set up, salinity, ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phos, alk.
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oceanhealing4us
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ok i still havent got around to buying a master test kit. I keep up with the salt with my refractometer it kinda bounces but for the most part iv ever lett it get below 33 i fin hahrd to read the gavity side so forgive me my fish iv had fo over three years. not all the same fish btw. so this sys is a reg 55 gal i have a aqueon sump just because it was given to me I have a w4 with controll for wake maker my lights are the fluval 2.0 marine 25k i have a few fugi live rocks plannin to get more soon i have 50 pounds of.sand I have my clown pair.one of them is.black it so weird having miss matched clowns haha i have some turbo snails and some blue leg hermits i have a pacfic shrimp and my new fa my golden head gobie i know they leave sand on corals but i have my mush away from were the gobie hangs out to eat alot
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oceanhealing4us
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forgive my spellin my phone wont let me go back to change it
and i think its ok i gotta get a plug thing to glue him down to. he is a brown orange with lime green rings so to speak. i gave him a few days to see if he was going to make it before i asked i think he is going to make it so should i spot feed this dude or what do i need ro buy him some vitmins or somthing?
and i think its ok i gotta get a plug thing to glue him down to. he is a brown orange with lime green rings so to speak. i gave him a few days to see if he was going to make it before i asked i think he is going to make it so should i spot feed this dude or what do i need ro buy him some vitmins or somthing?
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oceanhealing4us
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he looks alot.better today ill have to get a new pic of.him he looked so bad because he.fell into a hole in my live rock so i had to fish him out. dont think it liked that but today he is twice as big
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oceanhealing4us
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i got him chillin on this fake coral and if ur wondering he is growing on somthing thats hard so i just set him in this might be in a to high of flow area but seems to be doing good. just still wonder if i have to feed him.
Caseyoidae
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I honestly wouldn't worry to much about feeding a single mushroom as they're photosynthetic. Will probably get a snack here and there from falling fish food debris. You could grind up some frozen or use something like marine snow but this will just make your water quality worsen over time. Uneaten decaying food just ups nitrate, silicates, phosphates and all that other stuff you'd be ideally trying to get rid of after finding high levels of after testing. Good luck, I'm sure it'll be fine
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oceanhealing4us
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ok thank you!
