Mushrooms with chemi clean

[Evan28395950]

Hey all, I’m about to use chemi clean again, last time I didn’t have my mushroom, so just wondering if they handle chemi clean well?

 

[John3]

Anything that strips nutrients from the water is likely going to cause a negative reaction with corals, especially ones like mushrooms that like “dirty” water.

 

[Evan28395950]

Anything that strips nutrients from the water is likely going to cause a negative reaction with corals, especially ones like mushrooms that like “dirty” water.

Anything I can do to prevent them from dying?

 

[John3]

If possible go slow with it but I found it to strip nutrients pretty fast. The sharp dive/swing in nutrient levels typically makes everything mad.

What is your goal using it?

 

[Evan28395950]

To remove Cyano that is now starting to cover corals, and rock, and sand

 

[philosophile]

To remove Cyano that is now starting to cover corals, and rock, and sand

I’ve used chemiclean many a time with mushrooms, and mine have been fine. I should note that I didn’t have sensitive shrooms like ricordea or yumas.

When I use chemiclean, I usually started my first treatment at half the recommended dosage, and for the second treatment, 2/3 of recommend, and that was usually enough to knock it out for me, especially if you manually remove a bunch before you treat.

 

[Exotic Coral Collection]

I used it with a couple richordias with no issues. You need to do a water change afterwards. Skimmer May go crazy also.

 

[Oshengems]

I have both ricodeas and yumas no problem used it 3 Times so far in my system, it hasn’t skipped a beat!

 

[Land Shark]

I used 1/3 dosage of chemiclean a month ago and it worked wonders to get rid of a lot of red slime. No issue with mushrooms or anything else to speak of.

 

[John3]

One other thought on cyano. A lot of times you will get cyano when you don’t have enough flow.

 

[exnisstech]

I have used it twice for green slime on the sand bed. Did an awesome job removing it. I have shrooms ricordia with other softies and lps and none seemed to be bothered. Skimmer did go nuts but I expected that.

 

[Bossman]

Just used chemi clean on my tank with mushrooms, zoas, palys, acans and had noticed no ill effect on any inhabitants. Now that I've made a large water change and added some BRS rox carbon my corals look as full as can be.