What's eating my bounce mushroom

[Nate Chalk]

So I added a 'side show bob' bounce last month and it disappeared without a trace, I added 2 mushroom (including new bounce mushroom and a Kenya tree (yesterday) all was fine this morning before work, then come home tonight my new bounce mushroom has been demolished, it has not let go of foot as there are still remains of colour and some side parts left, unfortunately I have not taken photos and now lights are off, only photos I have are yesterday , the other mushroom is fine and untouched, same as Kenya tree...
What would eat this mushroom only? That's £100 gone and something is big and fat lol
I have introduced a peppermint shrimp last and does wonder about recently

I have various hermit crabs, snails, I don't think it's fish, fire shrimp and peppermint shrimp, conch
Thanks

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Maybe the mushroom just melted?

 

[ScubaFish802]

Thanks @ScubaFish802 but that was sarcasm on my part lol

Hey, it's your money not mine

 

[Bucs20fan]

"it aint stupid if it works"- Aesop

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Hey, it's your money not mine

That's why the c,ant has to go lol can't have it feasting on my goods

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Maybe the mushroom just melted?

Melted ? Like how

 

[Bucs20fan]

Melted ? Like how

Mushrooms are closely related to anemones in they can move and have a foot, also if they die they kind of just slime away.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Melted ? Like how

Can something half mealt and leave remains, definitely eaten, looking into mushroom footing to learn, this was definitely eaten, no foot left over, I'll provide pics tomorrow as lights are off, two mushroom delivered yesterday

 

[Rick's Reviews]

My first mushroom went MIA, but only 'bounce' then same type delivered yesterday with other is only one that looks eaten, this morning they was fine, after work today I made these makeshift frag racks after seeing 'bounce has been eaten' and unfortunately no foot left, under whites some colour remains but looks like everything has gone, I made these frags racks to raise up to maybe help them grow without being eaten but 'bounce' has no foot from what I can see, especially how it arrived from yesterday

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Pics are two different mushroom under flash from camera, one is great but other.. not

 

[Nate Chalk]

It honestly looks like it couldve melted

 

[Rkdunn1]

Its probably only a matter of time before the peppermint starts to eat your snails. They love snails.

The will definitely eat snails. Even the larger
ones.

 

[Scotty8284]

I had two peppermints causing problems. Caught one, and things settled down a bit. But started having problems recently so I’ll be going after the remaining one. Used a water bottle trap for the first one, so I’ll try making another trap to try and catch this PITA.

 

[M Stein]

thanks.. proberbly not for a day or two now it's had mushroom steak lol
best way to catch it? I can't remove rocks and it hides in a kinda underside cave

Try putting food in a jar or wide mouthed bottle (in the US Gatorade and Powerade have wide enough mouths, don't know if it's the same in the UK).

By the way I don't know that something is eating your mushrooms. Sometimes a particular coral will not do well in certain systems for no apparent reason. If that is the case, then the mushroom would likely detach itself from the rock or frag and rely on the current to move. It may very well be buried in your rock work.
But yes, I would agree that the peppermints are definitely suspects.

 

[WyoMt.Chef]

Im not sure of this applies for you but I had a troch crawl over a bed of zoas then over my yuma. Then over the base of my pocillopora. Cooked it all..... Some tertiary warfare I suppose lol.

 

[wculver]

So I added a 'side show bob' bounce last month and it disappeared without a trace, I added 2 mushroom (including new bounce mushroom and a Kenya tree (yesterday) all was fine this morning before work, then come home tonight my new bounce mushroom has been demolished, it has not let go of foot as there are still remains of colour and some side parts left, unfortunately I have not taken photos and now lights are off, only photos I have are yesterday , the other mushroom is fine and untouched, same as Kenya tree...
What would eat this mushroom only? That's £100 gone and something is big and fat lol
I have introduced a peppermint shrimp last and does wonder about recently

I have various hermit crabs, snails, I don't think it's fish, fire shrimp and peppermint shrimp, conch
Thanks

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Though it is a quick picture, that mushroom doesn't look all that happy/healthy. If the shrimp decide it is struggling they'll go in for a snack.

 

[Tired]

Careful with two dragonets in a tank that size, they gobble up pods like mad.

"Peppermint shrimp" refers to about a dozen shrimp species in the same genus, all varying degrees of not-reef-safe. The most reef-safe of them eat aiptasia, and aiptasia are, after all, the sorts of animals you find in reefs. It's made worse if they aren't getting enough food.

 

[RubyU235]

I hope your mushroom “bounces” back

 

[HBtank]

I hate peppermints, only cause issues IME.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Best pics I could take with only 2 hands today, last pic was just after I introduced Tuesday and after that is how other mushroom is today (untouched)
I think it might still have some foot attached so it may 'bounce' back as you say, hope it survives until weekend when I get chance to remove shrimp and blue sapphire damsel

 

[Bucs20fan]

Best pics I could take with only 2 hands today, last pic was just after I introduced Tuesday and after that is how other mushroom is today (untouched)
I think it might still have some foot attached so it may 'bounce' back as you say, hope it survives until weekend when I get chance to remove shrimp and blue sapphire damsel

Definitely melting away after trauma. Not sure if it can be recovered in this state, but anything is worth a try. Did you smell it? A dead one will smell bad.