mushoom corals

[Galvan]

have a 75 gallon with 7 animals and 90lbs live rock. water chages are 20% monthly and have started to 10 gallons more per month. Have 1 brain coral and 1 carpet coral of which do well. The problem is with the Mushroom coral where at the beginning looks healthy but then after a few months will begin to get smaller mushrooms and some do not come out any more.
Water settins are good with exception of nitrate level is about 160-200 and will come down to about 80 after water changes.
Lighing is 2-65watt Actinic which is on from 7:00am to 9:00PM and 2-65watt 10,000K that turn on at 10:00am and off at 6:00PM

appreciate your thoughts.

 

[Anonymous]

Your nitrate level is what????

My levels can be all -0- and my blue shrooms refuse to come out. - They've pretty much all just shriveled up and disappeared. - Happened shortly after I added some red shrooms with blue pimples.

I attribute it to chemical warfare, but I really have no stinking clue either.

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, your nitrates are through the roof. Should be "0".

 

[Anonymous]

What are your "7 animals"? Overfeeding them may be the source of your problems.

I suggest you temporarily half the amount of food you put in the tank and try 20% water changes weekly/every 10 days (basically as often as you can manage within the limits of your RO water production). This should bring your nitrates down quicker. You'll have to stick with it and not give in to feeding too much.

Are any of the "7 animals" heavy feeders?

 

[SnowManSnow]

skimmer????

 

[waymack97]

thats like way to high, i would do 40% water change right away using ro water. than i would follow up with 10 to 20% water changes every other day until you bring the nitrates to 20% than start doing weeky 10% water changes, using ro water for all of it. oh and you need a skimmer.
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[saltank]

Yes your nitrate is WAY too high, although I don't know if that is the problem with your mushrooms.

Where are they placed in the tank? They should be in a low light, low flow area. Too much pc lighting can cause problems with them.

I would start by getting your water parameters in check and placing the shrooms in the lower part of the tank with light flow around them