Zepplin
06/19/2003, 01:52 AM
I have several ricordea, both florida and yuma, and many varieties of color. I've never had a sickness in any of my mushrooms before now. Usually if I'm tending to anyone's ailments it's the finicky SPS.
The illness seems isolated to one particular Yuma. He is bright green with pink highlights. He is extremely shriveled, no longer inflates as he once would. As well as the inflation cessation (hey that rhymes), there is another symptom.
He is looking very odd around his mouth. His white intestines are spewing out frequently, but he doesn't look to be disintegrating... yet.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm not used to mushroom sickness as I said. He is relatively isolated from other corals. The closest thing nearby is a purple sponge. He is living in a half-shade-half-sun location at the bottom of our 125 under the 400 watter. He is glued facing the glass. I fixed him this way to lessen the light intensity. There is medium water flow in this spot. I have never really fed my mushrooms, they've always done splendidly without feedings.
All other yumas are looking healthy, inflating normally, and are situated at the other end of the tank. Although, I did have a large orange yuma living in the same spot as this ailing mushroom for months. There is a blue florida nearby, he is fine. I just recently moved the orange yuma.
Our water parameters are perfect, all tested very recently. I really don't think this is an issue of water quality.
Any advice on treatment? Do you think he could recoup, or should I start accepting an inevitable death? Should I just leave him sit, or should I take matters into my own hands?
I have a frag tank, where the lighting and water flow are less intense-should I move him there to recoup? The frag tank and the main tank are on the same water system, so it wouldn't be a traumatic switch in that capacity.
What do you think guys?
Darren?
Bryan?
Anybody?
-Meg :confused: :sad: :confused:
The illness seems isolated to one particular Yuma. He is bright green with pink highlights. He is extremely shriveled, no longer inflates as he once would. As well as the inflation cessation (hey that rhymes), there is another symptom.
He is looking very odd around his mouth. His white intestines are spewing out frequently, but he doesn't look to be disintegrating... yet.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm not used to mushroom sickness as I said. He is relatively isolated from other corals. The closest thing nearby is a purple sponge. He is living in a half-shade-half-sun location at the bottom of our 125 under the 400 watter. He is glued facing the glass. I fixed him this way to lessen the light intensity. There is medium water flow in this spot. I have never really fed my mushrooms, they've always done splendidly without feedings.
All other yumas are looking healthy, inflating normally, and are situated at the other end of the tank. Although, I did have a large orange yuma living in the same spot as this ailing mushroom for months. There is a blue florida nearby, he is fine. I just recently moved the orange yuma.
Our water parameters are perfect, all tested very recently. I really don't think this is an issue of water quality.
Any advice on treatment? Do you think he could recoup, or should I start accepting an inevitable death? Should I just leave him sit, or should I take matters into my own hands?
I have a frag tank, where the lighting and water flow are less intense-should I move him there to recoup? The frag tank and the main tank are on the same water system, so it wouldn't be a traumatic switch in that capacity.
What do you think guys?
Darren?
Bryan?
Anybody?
-Meg :confused: :sad: :confused: