New To Corals - Mushroom Coral Exuding Slime

[CW]

Just added some frags to the tank, one of which was a greeny brown mushroom coral. Initially it opened up and closed at night, last night, after about a week, it went into a trumpet shape for the night, and today shrivelled up to its smallest size and started to exude stringy pinky-brown slime which seems to dissolve into the water if detached. It came attached to two shells and has released itself from one of them now.

So firstly is it OK but stressed by something, or is it dying/dead?

and secondly will the slime harm anything else in the tank?

Never kept corals before so no answer is too obvious! Thanks

 

[TimSchmidt]

It is probably expelling the zoanthellea (my spelling is horrible). Stressed and I actually would run a full set of tests of my water before saying it's ok to wait it out.

 

[crabby Mike]

Seen it before myself...sad to say that more than likely for whatever reason (wather ph ...ect.) it's dying :cry: The slime as you called it is harmless to other things in your tank but the size will get smaller until it's gone...kind of like it's melting. If for some reason things turn around please please tell me what you did!

 

[CW]

Seen it before myself...sad to say that more than likely for whatever reason (wather ph ...ect.) it's dying :cry: The slime as you called it is harmless to other things in your tank but the size will get smaller until it's gone...kind of like it's melting. If for some reason things turn around please please tell me what you did!

Sorry to say you are spot on, next morning it had gone completely, checked everywhere bu no sign, thought that perhaps something had eaten it until I read this. Odd that it's just this one though as I have added 7 small frags over the last two weeks and the rest are all fine, and water is fine. Had it near the top of the tank so lighting was good, only thing I can think is somthing like a crab had clambered on it and upset it.

 

[JoeMac]

From my little work with mushrooms they prefer a little less light......