Mushroom Coral Looking Funny

[MarsWulf5]

I have 2 really pretty mushroom one red and one white. Last week they went into my DT from quarantine.

They went from T5s that were old and needed to be changed to Kessil a360x's.
Some of the corals in QT were starting to do bad under the lights... I changed the bulbs and a new batch went into the coral QT and all the corals that were in there went into the DT.

My one white mushroom is sagging and has stringy white tentacles hanging out around the coral. The flow is low where it is placed - and the rock that it is on the sand bed.

There are two mushrooms on the rock - one is fine - the other is sagging etc...

The water is clean - the DT has only been up about 9 days.

I'm wondering if the light is too extreme? I moved it to a shady area...

I would turn the lights off - but the other corals need to be brought back... Some have recession or lost a polyp from the QT.

I have the Kessils at 30/100

You guys think its the lights?

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Is this a fully cycled tank?

I would put the mushroom halfway in the shade for now. How are your other corals? Pictures?

 

[MarsWulf5]

I have him in the shade and am using the lights only 8 hrs a day on 30/100.

The mushroom still looks pukey. Noticed a Toadstool not opening... So, I tested the water - and I have high ammonia at 1 - 1.5ppm. Yikes!!!

Which means that my cycle didnt complete in my rush to get my corals into good light and attempt at more stable water parameters.

So - these corals have survived worse fluctuations, as well as my fish, in quarantine for 10 months.

I am doing a 30G out of 160G total (tank and sump) water change today to bring down the ammonia 20% - still high - but the cycle is kicking in...

I ordered 8oz of Dr. Tim's Bacteria to arrive on the 4th - and one bottle each of pink and purple live coraline from Algea Barn.

My dissapointment here js becuase I spent a lot of money on live sand and Red Sea Mature Starter --- so I could just move everything out of QT where it was dieing off fast. It didnt work.

I wont buy live sand again - since I have now spent about $150 adding bacteria to the tank. Also, the live sand really made a dusty mess of my water and sump and filter socks for 3 days. Never again. I would do Dry sand and add Dr. Tims if I could start over.

At this point, the corals and fish in the DT are staying put. Doing water change and adding more bacteria.

Since my chaeto and pods habe not yet arrived from Algea Barn - I am using VIBRANT to keep algea away. I will stop using it when my chaeto ships - since it cant reproduce by itself and needs to be added to the tank - it should die off by the time the chaeto gets in there.

Funny, because I have one SPS in there... And its doing fine... But the mushroom of all things is having a fit.

Also, my cloudberries frag did not survive the quarantine. He's just a skeleton. He makes the 9th coral I lost from QT. Everything else (save the shroom) is actually looking better than it was in QT.

The tore down the both QTs, cleaned them, and started over with a fresh LPS pack from WWC. They look good... Not great... But good.

Hoping this cycle kicks in fast and the corals and fish in the display tank make it through the cycle.

I though I had this base covered with the live sand, and bacteria.

I had some cycled live rock... That ws supposed to go in the DT. It had cyano on it... So... I cleaned it off with a brush - but wont jist add that into my DT.

DT rock and sand is looking good so far...

Just can't believe I got New Tank Syndrom after 10 months of QTing fish and corals... I had to rush them into the DT to try and save them - was losing too much - including my yellow tang - who just stopped eating and gave up on life in a 20G high, bleeding apple Scoli, cynaria, etc...

I made it this far... Seemed to have saved the livestock I have fpr the most part.

Learned what not to do.

Just have to deal with cycling the tank with fish and corals in there. Not what I wanted, not what I planned - but - it is what it is.

Thanks.

Will post pics when I get more time.