What's up with this mushroom?

Instigate · Dec 23, 2017

In searching about mucus on mushrooms I read that they will sometimes "shed" and it's normal. Is that all this is?

How it looks normally:

Tahoe61 · Dec 23, 2017

I would say it's either expelling waste and or zooxanthellae. They do not shed in the way a Sinularia or Sarcophyton would.

Can not tell if it's a Yuma or Florida Ricordia, either way you're most likely over illuminating it, the coral is bleached.

Instigate · Dec 23, 2017

It was straight up white and pink when I got it. And has since developed a greenish tint to the white part. Ive had it for two weeks and has been fine until this morning. When I was feeding the lps in the frag system last night I tossed an lps pellet on it to see if it eats. Maybe that irritated it? I thought if it didn't worst that would happen is it would blow away when the circulation goes back on but instead it stuck to it and created this mucus. I did move it over to the dark side of the tank in case it's light but I doubt it since it has been fine for two weeks in that light.

/and the store said it's a yuma.

Instigate · Dec 23, 2017

I should have explained better as it's hard to see in the photos. It has a thick mucus looking layer that has formed over the mushroom. I can see the pink underneath the mucus layer.

Instigate · Dec 23, 2017

jsker · Dec 23, 2017

What are you feeding the system? How old is your system? Parameter would help out a lot

Instigate · Dec 23, 2017

System has been up for about 4 months. It's a little 10 gallon QT for corals. I feed it phyto-feast daily and I only feed anything else if I have a coral in there that needs to be fed. If so it would be Coral Frenzy pellets or mysis. Right now there is only one acan that readily feeds in there. So I feed it twice a week. The open brain coral doesn't seem interested in eating but I just put it in like two days ago so maybe that's why idk.

Admittedly I haven't done parameters on it in a while I'll check them and post today. But it being such a small tank and I do the 10% WC weekly like clockwork so I haven't been that concerned about it. Plus it only had a few cheap-o frags in it till I added the trachy the other day.

jsker · Dec 23, 2017

It would be interesting to get the nitrate and phosphate reading mostly. I were to guess, it hungry. I say this a lot, but vitamin C helps corals and fish a bunch

Instigate · Dec 23, 2017

Po4 is a bit low at 0.03. No3 is good though at 10ppm.

Instigate · Dec 24, 2017

Mucus layer is breaking off now:

John3 · Dec 24, 2017

I had some Yuma’s that melted away and looked just like that. They were fine for 2 weeks and then just slowly turned into balls of mucus.

Instigate · Dec 24, 2017

John3 said:
I had some Yuma’s that melted away and looked just like that. They were fine for 2 weeks and then just slowly turned into balls of mucus.

Did anything grow back afterwords?

John3 · Dec 24, 2017

Unfortunately no. I bought a rock with about 10 shrooms and divided them between my tank and a friends. They looked really healthy in both tanks for 2 weeks and then just went over the cliff and melted away. The melting was really slow and took about a week for them to be totally gone.