Do mushrooms produce chemicals??

[Beckmola24]

I am awaiting a shipment of dwarf seahorses next week and was looking at putting some of my blue shrooms on the black sand to make the tank look prettier Anyways do shrooms in ANY way give off chemicals that would hurt the dwarfes gills or respiration in any way?? I want to be completely sure before I chance it with them...

 

[aural]

all coral use chemical warfare of some type. some are of course more potent than others, and mushrooms are definitely more on the passive side. I have seen seahorse tanks with mushrooms before, so my guess is that you would be okay...

 

[KDodds]

Unless the mushrooms eat the Seahorses. H. zosterae are WAY tiny, and not very mobile. I can definitely see where some shrooms could "onion" around one and consume it. Other than that, I don't think it would be a problem. Most mushrooms conduct most of their "warfare" through the release of mesenterial filaments, which really should not be a danger to SHs. Even the "dreaded hydroids", IMPE, are not so much a danger as an unsightly nuisance.

 

[Beckmola24]

I would think the shrooms would only release chemicals if there were other corals in the tank for them to "fight" with... Do they release chemicals for any other reason (ie stress)??