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    Posted: August 01 2008 at 3:37pm

okay first i am new to corals and inverts

A few weeks back i bought 2 mushrooms (?) from a fellow member, i forgot what he called them but they are flat, purple and have little tenicle with green tips.  anyway i bought two of them and for the first 2 weeks they both did really well, now one is dying i think, it no longer expands during the day and it has a very litle purple stringy substance coming from its mouth.  I was wondering if anyone 1) knows what mushroom this is and 2) can tell me what to do to save it
 
The other one i bought is doing great and has doubled in size in the short time i have owned it.  I tested the water and my nitrates are a little high 10ppm, everything else is zero.  I will post a picture when i get home, but i am worried about my new little friend
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it looks like this one
 
 
called a Lavender Mushroom . . .  i will have pic up in hour or so
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side view one that is doing great
 
 
Is hrd to see but there is little purple string things coming outta the mouth, also it looks as if it has been split halfway to the mouth (like a pac-man)


Edited by 05gtiguy - August 01 2008 at 5:53pm
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looks okay to me.
might be splitting.
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Which one is dying? I agree with Mark. When you say dying does it look like it is Melting?
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maybe it is just splitting, i dont know i just thought it was dying cus it is spitting little light purple sting type stuff from its mouth and it used toexpand during the day which it has not done for weeks now. 
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