PH 7.4 mushrooms shrivelling HELP

[Jade.a.deacon]

I own water melon mushrooms, cleaned tank today including the filter (only black foam and sponge on top) left bioballs as people suggested. Cleaned out skimmer head and done 10% water change.
PH before water change- 8.2
PH after water change- 7.4
Moved mushrooms away from the pump as didn't think it liked water flow and put higher up. Now mushrooms are shrivelling up! Is it from low ph or me moving them!? Can I save them? HELP! :,( please x

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

Mushrooms yesterday

Mushrooms today

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

Sorry ment ph is now 8.0

 

[Tab28]

Mushrooms are pretty hardy. They may just be a bit stressed but should be fine in a day or two. If all other like alk, and salinity are fine.


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[Palting]

Mushrooms can get fussy when moved or if the environment changes but are quite hardy. I think they are just miffed by the move and the water change, and should be fine.

 

[darrend]

agreed. they will be fine.

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

Thank you guys! Nitrates have gone up to either 20ppm or 40 after a water change I did today! Will that effect or kill the mushrooms or even my fish? Hoping to get rod water tomorrow and change water again I don't know why it suddenly went up! Water changes are ment to help right?

 

[Tab28]

The high nitrates should not effect the mushrooms or fish in short term but lowering will show improvements to both. 40 is high but mushrooms can stand it. Fish get stressed but will all grow use to it. But both will not be as hardy as with lower than 10.


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Water changes are the best and fastest way to lower phosphates and nitrates. But if you are having chronic issues, the more fish the higher the nitrates, maybe something more permanent are you using a skimmer, or bio-pellets?

 

[J062682l]

How established is your tank. Sounds like you might have done too much in one day

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

I am using a skimmer I got with the tank (brought the tank as starter marine lot everything included) and my tank is about 2 months old, I did two water changes in a week last week too but that was fine, could I be doing too many water changes? I only have a Sand sifting goby, two nemos and a mushroom coral. Oh and tons an tons of brown algae which I will be getting some more clean up crew for that ( once nitrates are down) x

 

[Tab28]

How large is you tank? The tank is is fairly new so it may be still going through a cycling. I don't think you are doing too many water changes. Are you able to do a phosphate test? Nitrates and phosphates are a challenge to lower and keep low even for older tanks. Is you skimmer creating lots of micro bubbles and good dark waste to he emptied.


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[J062682l]

IMO I change my filter media on different days than my water changes , Ido water changes 1-2 times a week. But they are small. 5-10 g at the most

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

I actually found out today my nitrates are very low the perfect level apparently! I've put another topic up about my API test kit as it seems to be off. Lfs tells me everything in my tank is perfect and my mushrooms are great today! Very straight, I have followed yet kit instructions religiously but they still seem way off. Anyone had any experience with these?

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

*strange not straight lol

 

[Jade.a.deacon]

*test, bloody predictive text!

 

[Tab28]

I found api test not acurate enough for sps and lps. The calcium is the only one i use from api. I use mostly elos but hanna for alk and phosphates. Hanna gives me an exact number.


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[Jade.a.deacon]

This May sound stupid but what does sps and lps mean? Seen it being used around here a lot, thank you that's great help! Might just use the fish shop to do my water tests I go in there more than once a week anyway! X

 

[NanaReefer]

Large Polyp Stony ( LPS) Coral
Small Polyp Stony (SPS) Coral


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[Tab28]

Lps is large polyp stoney corals with a hard shell but a large polyp like frogspawn or scoly. Sps are small polyp stoney corals these are your typical looking corals like acros and montipora. Not sure about you lfs but many just use the api tests since they are cheaper than the more accurate tests.


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Zoanthids and mushrooms are called softies they are generally hardier corals

 

[Eienna]

This May sound stupid but what does sps and lps mean? Seen it being used around here a lot, thank you that's great help! Might just use the fish shop to do my water tests I go in there more than once a week anyway! X

No stupid questions it's better to ask and avoid a costly mistake than to try to avoid looking stupid and cause a disaster

LPS is short for large-polyped stony corals, and SPS is short for small-polyped stony corals. There is a distinction made because generally the two groups require somewhat different care. LPS are adapted to getting most of their nutrition from food, and SPS are widely believed to acquire most of their nutrition from light. LPS would be things like acanthastrea and favia. A classic SPS example would be the acropora family.

There's another you'll hear from time to time - NPS. That's short for non-photosynthetic. They get none of their nutrition from light because they lack zooxanthellae, and absolutely must be fed.