Cutting and growing mushrooms

[Moodywaters]

I have heard differant almost tall tales on Cutting and regrowing your mushrooms

about a month ago i got a mixed mushroom rock from a friend and i wanted to cut a few off and spread them around the tank i have 5 large blue with purple dots mushrooms and wanted to take 2 or 3 over to the other side of the tank.

i was wondering what the safest and least stress on my tank method beacuse i really dont want to mess around in my tank with sharp knifes or what ever

so i was wondering if some one could clear this up for me sorry if i should have put this in another topic area

 

[maxvan1]

You could just break the rock...?

 

[SchweetPup]

If you place the mushrooms face down in the sand, they should detatch within a day or so.. just flip the whole rock over into the sand gently... worked for me!

 

[Fishfreak218]

i just ripped one of mine off and he just popped off the rock...

 

[CorradoGuy]

I also had gotten a rock with some shrooms on it recently and I didn't really like the rock that they were on. I wanted them on the other side of the tank that I have them on now, so I decided to move them. I hadn't checked here on RC on what to do but I figured it couldn't be to hard. I did know shrooms were pretty hardy and the rock had alot on it so wasn't worried about loosing a couple.

Anyways what I did was take the rock out of the water and with a very sharp knife I had sliced the very base of the foot of the shroom , basically sliding it against the rock. Making very small slices, a little deeper each time as I peeled the shroom off the rock. Then I placed the shroom in the tank where I wanted and poof I was happy and did another. Well, shortly there after they opened up and pretty much parasailed arcross the tank in the current.

I put them back were I wanted and no luck on them sticking, so them I looked up at RC on what to do. I used the toothpick method and then the super glue method and neither worked to my liking. What I found that worked best was just place them in a shallow dish with some rubble in it on the bottom of my tank. Within a week they attached and I put them where I wanted.

Hope this helps some.

 

[gussy]

I cut off the entire piece from the rock. There will be some left on the old rock that will grow into new ones.

 

[pledosophy]

I've tried the glue, toothpick, bridal veil, and container of rubblerock methods. I don't like any of them. The best succsess I got with those was about 70%.

Now I put them in a container with crushed coral, with no top. Give it a couple weeks, they will attach to the crushed coral, then you can glue the crushed coral to the desired rock. Succsess rate so far is about 95%.