Detached yuma--interesting

[Big E]

This is a crappy picture but this orange yuma has detached it's foot completely to move over & make room for the three babies that were underneath. It's about 4" when expanded & was completely covering the babies.

Is this common?

I'm curious to see if it now will split also because it has two mouths originally when I bought it.

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[philosophile]

yeah shrooms of all kinds tend to reproduce this way. They move over, and leave behind a piece of their foot, which becomes a little shroom. The other way is through splitting entirely,

 

[Big E]

I'm aware of how mushrooms multiply, but I've never seen one physically move over to allow light to the babies. Usually the smaller ones grow & push through. If things get crowded I've seen them detach & latch on somewhere else in the tank.

 

[britestar101]

my green yuma drops babies all the time that way, its never split though, sometimes a mushroom can live happily with multiple mouths and never split.