Hairy Mushroom ! Tips & Tricks to keep their tips Green

[e>ben<K]

Hi all,

Newbie to marine fish here. SO bear with me.

Am into a saga of keeping Mushies. Recently encounter a problem. my hairy mushrooms green tips are losing colour. i wonder whats the cause of it and what can i do to maintian its colour, very disheartning to see this mushies fade away.

Also, just got a rocks full of mushies. Realise that there are 3 round ball-like thingy on top of it. with white tiny spikes on it. looks intresting but is it a friend or foe. i will try to post a pic, in the meantime any idea what is it?

[vt_snowman87]

hi BenQ, care to share what lightings are they under?

the white balls stuff sounds like urchins.. i'm not too sure though.. if in doubt, remove it first ba.. cheers..

[e>ben<K]

hi BenQ, care to share what lightings are they under?

the white balls stuff sounds like urchins.. i'm not too sure though.. if in doubt, remove it first ba.. cheers..

Hi there,

My tank is a 2ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft tank. Using 2ft lights 4 tubes of T5. 2 white light and 2 actinic blue.

The ball like think is white plus abit greenish. Been staring at them whole of last night. Dont seem to have any reaction. haha

Regards,

BenQ

[arcanehacker]

Hi all,

Newbie to marine fish here. SO bear with me.

Am into a saga of keeping Mushies. Recently encounter a problem. my hairy mushrooms green tips are losing colour. i wonder whats the cause of it and what can i do to maintian its colour, very disheartning to see this mushies fade away.

Also, just got a rocks full of mushies. Realise that there are 3 round ball-like thingy on top of it. with white tiny spikes on it. looks intresting but is it a friend or foe. i will try to post a pic, in the meantime any idea what is it?

They need strong atinic blue lights.. I had problems with them before. move them all places till I found they thrive on blue lights.. get the ATI atinic and place the hairy mushies under it.. Colours should be back in no time.. you'll even find them propergating to the surrounding really fast.

[fishlife]

ur T5 is LO or HO? i'm keeping them under 4 t5ho, got 3 polyps n now more than 12 polyps oredi within a year..

[e>ben<K]

ur T5 is LO or HO? i'm keeping them under 4 t5ho, got 3 polyps n now more than 12 polyps oredi within a year..

Pardon me, what is LO and HO?

[MARIN63]

Pardon me, what is LO and HO?

LO - Low output (18/20 watts)

HO - High output (min.24 watts)

[vt_snowman87]

hi BenQ, T5 are those thinner tubes.. 2ft is 24W, 3ft 36W etc..

if ur tubes are those thicker ones they're most likely T8..

individual reflectors and good tubes will enhance the output of ur lights..

[MbmC]

Bro, got ur tubes yet? Sorry I couldn't go by with you guys

Spend some money and upgrade your lightset. No regrets

[e>ben<K]

Bro, got ur tubes yet? Sorry I couldn't go by with you guys

Spend some money and upgrade your lightset. No regrets

No more 2ft left when we are there. So kenneth bought the 3ft one. Indeed lots of difference.

Spend whole of last night trying to catch the rotten tail fish. FUSTRATED i should say, haha din't manage to catch it. Seems that there is a plague outbreak in my tank 2 more clown spotted with white spots. So helpless now !!

How man!

[wil_lee76]

hi there, regards on the mushies, care to share your tank stats? Temp, CA, etc etc

On bleaching part, i do suspect your temp is on the high side when your tank on the lights.

hope these helps.

[e>ben<K]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the inputs.

"hi there, regards on the mushies, care to share your tank stats? Temp, CA, etc etc

On bleaching part, i do suspect your temp is on the high side when your tank on the lights.

hope these helps. "

Sad to say this, but so far 2 months into this hobby i do not have any test kits yet. As for the temp, i do not have any chiller hence, temp suppose to hover around 28-30 degree celcuis

[TayHongSiang]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the inputs.

"hi there, regards on the mushies, care to share your tank stats? Temp, CA, etc etc

On bleaching part, i do suspect your temp is on the high side when your tank on the lights.

hope these helps. "

Sad to say this, but so far 2 months into this hobby i do not have any test kits yet. As for the temp, i do not have any chiller hence, temp suppose to hover around 28-30 degree celcuis

Based on yr lightings, yr temp is at least 30-31 degrees w/o cooling fans and chiller, yr u are "cooking" yr corals with those heat emitted from yr lightings.

Yr fishes are sick, bcoz they are stress. Temp high and yr water conditions which u din check.

You need to get trace elements, iodine, reef builder, pH buffer to maintain yr corals. Also do u feed yr corals with plankton or brine shrimps?

And mushies do not like currents...place them in places where there is very little currents or no currents.