kris_willard Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 i moved my beloved purple mushrooms into my 5.5 from my 90 gallon. With them i moved my zoo's and the candy canes that hitch hiked with the zoos. The zoos and candy canes are doing awesome! my proablem is the mushroom dont seem to want to open up and almost look shrivled. i put some cyclop ez in to try to get them stimulated but they only seemed to shrivle more. params: SG = 1.025 nitrate = 5 nitrite = undetectable ammonia = undetectale dkH = 8.5 There has been acouple of tem swings since i just added the new lights. Could this have caused it? If so nothing else seems to care. I am waiting a week before i add my kenya tree and the remainder of my zoos to make sure everything is ok. Any Ideas? Thanks, Kris Link to comment
EtOH_is_good Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 put the shrooms in a low flow area also with similar lighting to your previous nano. this assumes that they were open in your nano. Link to comment
kris_willard Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 I moved them from my 90 gal TO my nano. The lighting in my nano is much more intense (10.2watt/gal vs ~4 wat/gal in the 90) and im sure the flow is greater as well. I put them as far from the light and under the ph in the low flow area. Will they adjust with time? Link to comment
EtOH_is_good Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 my bad. kind of funny that a big tank guy needs to know what to do with a shroom. probably tons, you can teach us about big tanks. : well, i'm pretty sure that he'll adjust. if your tank water conditions were very similar, probably just adjusting to flow and light. not much you can do but just find a similar area in the new home tank. Link to comment
kris_willard Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 yeh the 90 was/is a preadator fOWLR but i put the corals in there while i was waiting for the new lights to show up for my nano. haha Yeh that does seem kinda funny! This is my 1st go around with corals, but i have been doing SW for a while now and couldnt resist getting into corals so i built a nano to have corals. Hopefully te adjust. Is it common for the shrooms to shrivvle when i feed cyclop ez? (kinda like how the zoos close up when you feed them?) Link to comment
EtOH_is_good Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 haven't come across that problem with shrooms before. need help from someone with more experience and knowledge. Link to comment
ReefDiver Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I've have some experience in this area. I have green striped, red and Purple Mushrooms. My green striped shrooms have been multiplying like crazy. I recently changed the flow on one of my powerheads for more surface flow, this caused additional flow in the area that green striped shrooms were located. They looked shriveled and a couple looked like they were going to drop from the rock. I moved them under a powerhead and they are happy once again. They are definitely much happier in a low flow area. RD Link to comment
kris_willard Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 Thanks for your help! i hope they recover. I guess only time will tell. Link to comment
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