do mushrooms sting each other? other corals?

[seaduck]

I'm just starting to add mushrooms to my tank. Can u put different species next to each other? what about shrooms stinging other corals? I know my frogspawn can sting them.

 

[sirbooks]

Mushrooms have very shortened tentacles and don't seem to pack powerful nematocysts, but instead possess strong chemicals. They seem to be tolerant of each other (at least mushrooms in the same genus), but can potentially be harmful to other corals. I haven't heard of problems with mushrooms actually being aggressive, but it seems like they could hurt corals if they were allowed to touch. Maybe someone else can give you a more definite response.

 

[masterqaz]

i had a few start to sting my open brain. i dont think that they sting them selfs well different genus's anyways, i only say this because the amount of random mushrooms of many types that i have just sitting in the bottom right corner of my tank.

 

[kwiker]

My ricordia sting my Zoanthids. If you are curious, just wait and see what happens when they touch. If you notice them retracting, then move them. One will not kill anoher one over night. If they don't retract then they should be O.K. together.

 

[seaduck]

Thx everyone, I'm gonna keep mushrooms seperate from other corals but will keep different species of shrooms together and keep an eye out for ones that retract and seperate if necessary.

 

[All Delight]

I had a baby yuma sprout up on the base of the green toadstool. For a couple of days I didn't know why my toadstool was not opening and was starting to sag. Then I saw a half sized eraser head yuma right on the base of the toadstool.

I scraped the yuma off and 2 days later my toadstool was fine.

 

[AquaticKonyk]

Mushroom corals, once established, can overgrow an aquarium, choking out polyp colonies and irritating other corals. They are difficult, if not impossible to contain and or remove. They seem to have no natural predator. I consider them a plague.
I would never set up another reef tank with a mushroom coral in it.

 

[catdoc]

I had to peel a mushroom off of a closed brain today. It had been slowly growing over a few months and I didn't think it'd do any harm. When doing some tank maintenance today, I noticed as the shroom withdres, that the brain was bleaching and receding under it. That mushroom got ripped off and we'll see how the brain recovers. I don't know if the shade was the factor, chemicals, or other warfare.

 

[ScotchMaster]

My Yumas are mean! They stung one of my acan frags and killed it

 

[AquaticKonyk]

About 10 yrs ago I put a rock with 5 mushroom corals on it in my 125 g reef tank. Slowly but surely they spread to other rocks, & attached to the glass sides. They overgrew & killed button polyps, annoyed a no. of soft leather corals causing they to detach from the rock they were on, and choked out smaller pieces of acropora.
I tried to reduce their numbers by cutting them out, using a kalkwasser paste, injections of Joe's juice-everything short of dynamite, but they still spread & flourished.
My strong recommendation to anyone with a reef tank is do not intoduce mushroom corals, unless that's the only coral you want in your aquarium.

 

[jessp]

i have two very large green hairy mushrooms that stung a alien eye blasto i have, was only touching for a brief time. I supposed that the sensitivity of the blastos also had something to do with it