Blue mushrooms melting

[no1bubba]

I was completely devistated last night to find that one of my NEW blue mushrooms was covered with this film and looked like something melting.
Today another on the same rock was doing the exact same thing. What's the deal? I only have 2 more left and I do love blue. Bubba

 

[oil_fan]

Possibly the water is too clean??

I have 2 tanks. In one, I can keep all types of soft corals, mushrooms and such. The other, they just melt away. I haven't tried recently but I put a set of acans in that tank and week later, gone.

 

[smoothie]

When we have the problem figured out I will give ya some more.

 

[jennm]

Temperature?

Post all of your parameters please. Not much kills mushrooms but temperature can be a factor, IME.

Jenn

 

[darcurr]

JennM;611958 wrote: Temperature?

Post all of your parameters please. Not much kills mushrooms but temperature can be a factor, IME.

Jenn

+1

Shrooms are generally pretty tough.

 

[mcphock]

I had the same experience, specifically with blue mushrooms. Every other kind of mushroom grows great.

They didnt melt, but just kind of shrank until the disappeared.

 

[no1bubba]

This is what is so strange.....these were newly purchased shrooms. Two appeared to have been attached for some time....the other two were very loose. The looser, smaller of the 4 are the two that melted. This evening they are comepletely gone.
I have two colonies of green and one of red and they thrive.
Recently I have read here of xenia that are melting and someone said the water was bad or the temp. was wrong......I have 5 colonies of xenia (all in the same tank) 2 melted and the other three are spreading. All from the same mother colony and all were fragged at the same time. Two more small colonies started by themselves on the bottoms of rocks. I am sorry but I just don't understand how my water could be bad for 2 and not the other 3. Bubba