Quarantine & Dip?

[donsods]

There is a great thread in the zoathin boeard about quarantining & dipping. Does this apply to shrooms as well? Feather dusters?

[maxvan1]

I would not do it with feather dusters! Shrooms im unsure of... But I would try not to. There isnt much that can happen to shrooms (some things can happen though)

But they are filled with water (or some liquid) and so it would seem to me if they got FW in them they would not be very good. Not sure though... any one know if you can dip shrooms?

[moggyhill]

the reason you dip zoos is to get rid of fungus, the only reason I would dip a mushroom is if it came in on live rock I suspected of having unwanted critters.

[cutting]

if your worried about introducing flatworms into your tank a FW dip for shrooms will do the trick. Also the FW doesnt affect the shrooms other than making them shrivel up for an hour or so.

[jedininja]

Flatworms are prety much the only thing I worry about on my shrooms. I dont like stressing them out with FW or gong through the trouble of adjusting the temp and pH of the FW. So I just drop in 1 drip of flatworm exit into the bag about 3 minutes before i take the shrooms out.

[moggyhill]

so I take it you don't drip acclimate your corals, you are braver than I

[jedininja]

me? Of course I drip acclimate. Then I add FWE before putting it in my tank.

[moggyhill]

ok thanks

[donsods]

Flatworms are a concern. Introducing hydriods are a bigger concern.

[Wocka]

i had flatworms and didnt really know what to do, it was a long time ago but they just went away on there own?

[Schaefer]

I purchased my first red mushrooms on live rock 3 weeks ago. Put them on the sand in 17 " of water below 130W of PC's (Satellite 24). They expanded great for the first two days and have been dwindling ever since. They look horrible now. Half of them are the brown-red color and the other half display the irridescent green that comes and goes.

They have flakes on them that seem like they might be tubellarian flat worms that I've read about. Same color as the mushroom, flat and oval shaped.

What should I do to help them?

Thanks

Andy

Also:

Coralline algea growth has been slow. Tank set up Jan. 29th.
22 gallon flat back hex.
78 degrees
Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates = 0
Alk = 12.2 dkh
Calc = 420 ppm
PH = 8.2
3" sand
No Phosphate test kit yet.
20# of live rock
1" percula
2" purple fire fish
1 blood shrimp
5 astrea
2 trochus
8 nasarius
No protien skimmer
Tetratec 150 (should I be running the carbon all of the time?)
600 gph pump directed away from the schrooms.

[Schaefer]

Question by Schaefer above posted as a new thread "Sick Mushrooms?". Sorry for the duplication.