trouble with my toadstool

Hi everyone. I have had this toadstool for about one year now and I have never had any problems with it till now. Maybe about 2 week back it started to slowly fall over; at first I didn’t think anything about it. But when the lights came on it wouldn’t straighten back up, but the "tentacle if you will” was out that’s when I knew something was wrong. The yellow part of it seem to be moving upwards as well
So any ideas as to what going on here.

--Bulb are new
--Its been in the same spot since I got it
--I have not added anything new to the tank
--I test the water all the perm are good .

P.S
What I think, it is trying to move and tearing itself from the rock, if so can I cut it off the rock to speed it up. just a guess anyway.:-/:-/

Thanks everyone

 

Rawdogs

when you say bulbs are new? do you mean you recently upgraded to MH lights
or have you recently changed bulbs ( basically has it always been under similar lighting)?

is there any visible rotting at the base? - any expossed calcium spicles? that you can see
as IME if this happens then the head section will lean forward due to the problem



IMO
fragging the coral is an option if there is a problem with damaged stalk
you can remove the head section, and using some mesh / bridal veil, attach it to a large rock and place in area of low flow for about 2 weeks, when it will have attached/ secured itself to rock and you can remove the veil

alternatively you could have 4 or more toadstools of you wanted
you could cut a ring around the crown about 2 inch wide - and then cut the resulting ring donut into 4 pieces

follow the procedure above, attaching each piece lightly with mesh netting strips or bridal veil strips and secure to rock - again about 2 weeks later there oblong shapes will attach to rock and will gradually round themselves to become mini toadstools

Steve

 

It may be just shedding it's outer skin but I may be wrong. During that process, they don't usually slouch over that much.

Fragging it is an option like Steve said. I had a toadstool do that to me once and after about a month of watching it die, I cut it up into about 10 pieces and got 8 surviving smaller toadstools.

 

new bulb, it been under the MH since i got it

not that i can see but i was not really looking. but i will look tonight for rotting spots and calcium spicles

i may fragging it at the stalk because that odd yellow coloring seem to be growing upwards and slowy turning the hole stalk yellow. what gots me worried is right where the yellowness ends that where it starts to slouch, so am taking it as, everything yellow is dead.

 

thats what i was thinking, that it was shedding and when the lights comes on it would strighting back up but when it didnt then i started to get worried

 

********update

i had a look at my toadstool and i notices no rotting spots or calcium spicles. but what i did notices was the on the yellow part there was a film like "skin", as if it was shedding?????. it also was not slouch as much as it was the other day. so i adjusted the rock a little, am going to with till the weekend to see if it falls again. if it fall then i will frag the stalk

 

i think its shedding, mine did this, wouldnt open up and the entire stalk sagged for about a week, i did same as you and cut in two but wish i didnt cuz now i have 2 small ones. Leave it be for the time being it will sprout back up.

 

Some time after I first got mine it went from occasionally drooping to laying over like a deflated old inner tube by the side of the road. Thought it was toast. After a week or two it started standing up again and shedding like crazy. It has has since grown quite large. Leans over sometimes, sheds some, but never lays flat and deflated like it did that first time.

 

if you see "skin" on it and its slouching, get some heavier flow to it. I picked up a a little (at the time) yellow toadstool that I thought was a goner until as a last ditch effort I put a koralia 4 about 12" away from it. it shed 3 times and is now almost too big for my smaller tank.

~Will.

 

The toadstool that I had that did the same thing I fragged after 2 weeks of it slouching. Here's how it looked.
Just give it some more flow and observe for about 2-3 days.