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EthanPhillyCheesesteak

It does not look happy. How high up is it? How much light exposure is it getting? It may also be getting too much flow. Mushrooms are weird and extremely hardy.

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1 hour ago, Suggsreef said:

Bought this mushroom and glued the rubble under it to a plug. It’s been like this a few days now. Including a pic of before I bought it. 

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Looks like zooxanthellae, (having a poop) mine do this when they're stressed. Can you shade them slightly at all?

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1 hour ago, Suggsreef said:

Bought this mushroom and glued the rubble under it to a plug. It’s been like this a few days now. Including a pic of before I bought it. 

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looks like stress. Can you sit the plug down in the sand?

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4 minutes ago, Suggsreef said:

I can put it down in the sand. It’s high up. My other shrooms near it are happy 

Different mushrooms like different conditions. Try to put him in the sand

It looks like when you bought him, he was on the sand bed. He may just be used to the sand bed and not frag plug rack

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8 minutes ago, EthanPhillyCheesesteak said:

Different mushrooms like different conditions. Try to put him in the sand

It looks like when you bought him, he was on the sand bed. He may just be used to the sand bed and not frag plug rack

True. 

5 minutes ago, Ratvan said:

You could always frag it while it is like this? 

Not sure. He’s small on that plug. Hard to see the mouth on him

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1 minute ago, Suggsreef said:

True. 

Not sure. He’s small on that plug. Hard to see the mouth on him

I wouldn’t frag just yet, but you could if it keeps heading downhill 

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Just now, EthanPhillyCheesesteak said:

I wouldn’t frag just yet, but you could if it keeps heading downhill 

I would cut into 4, this is how they look like once fragged. 

Alternatively if you can get some rubble/crushed coral in a tupperware pot I would place the shroom in this and watch it carefully. 

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Set him sideways in the sand or fill a small container and put the plug in the container and fill it with sand so there is sand leveled with the shroom? 
 

as it is glued to the plug

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