Will my mushroom ever recover???

SandJ · Dec 30, 2017

Two weeks ago we moved the tanks to our new home 11 hours away (along with the rest of the house stuff). It was a super stressful and haeartbreaking experience I will never do again. May write my experience later....

Anyways, during a Tank crash I was able to set up an emergency tank and transfer some of my mushrooms. Most have started recovering, but it is not the same beautiful mushroom. I am thrilled that they have pulled through, but will they ever recover the colors they had?

This red and blue one was my absolute favorite and it is heartbreaking just posting the photos...

This is another mushroom...a rhodactis. It ended up producing a baby during the ordeal.

Ghxst · Dec 30, 2017

Fortunaltly mushsrooms are hardy and can bounce back from near obliteration. It may take a long time. Keep up with water changes and getting the tank back to stable and I think you are set. If it appears to die leave everything in the tank, it could have made tiny babies before leaving

skiergd011013 · Dec 30, 2017

I would bet on yes, they will recover. The first one especially.

Tahoe61 · Dec 30, 2017

Agreed: They go bad fast and take what seems like forever to recover.

SandJ · Dec 30, 2017

Pictures one, two three are the same mushroom. This is when they were about 50% better and I finally had the strength to take pictures.

Livinlocal · Dec 30, 2017

Mushrooms are probably the hardiest corals, and the most resilient. As long as the tank you have set up right now has decent water quality, they will bounce back. It may take a while, but I’m sure they will come back. Like said above, If the big one does die, don’t take the rock out or whatever it is on because odds are it left a little tiny babies that you may not see. When they are dying, they break little pieces of them off in hopes to save their species

SandJ · Mar 27, 2018

So, I thought I would post an update...

This was my mushroom as it was starting to recover from a 12 hour move...

And this it what it looks like today...

It has fully recovered, and split!!!!
The other mushroom also fully recovered, but I just noticed my daughter swiped it for her tank, so no picture lol

I will never give up on a sick/damaged mushroom.