does anyone cut their shrooms in order to multiply them?

[WienerDog]

I met someone this week with a beautiful tank. He cuts his shrooms with a straight razor. They repair, regenerate, and multiply all over. Anyone do this or hear of it?

 

[WienerDog]

???

 

[philosophile]

Yeah, its really common. It's called fragging.

 

[organism]

Yup, do it all the time

 

[leedoherty]

Me too cut them up like a pizza

 

[furfeet26]

Can you also do this with ricordias?

 

[philosophile]

yep. Just make sure than when you frag any shroom that you use really sharp clean stuff, slice through the mouth, so each piece gets a mouth. Quick dip in iodine to make sure they are clean. Set them in a container with some rubble rock, and cover with some bridal veil or mesh screening that you can put back in your tank. The pieces will eventually attached to the rubble after about a week. Take them out, glue them where you want, and enjoy!

If you're not experienced with it, I'd start with cutting in two, rather than 4s or more. Try to do it relatively quickly. the longer you take, the more stressed out the shrooms will be and the less likely they will survive the process.

Here's a youtube video of someone fragging shrooms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbWJ70oy9M

 

[Arkayology]

IME, I rip shrooms off my LR only to have them grow back. They can regen from very small pieces.

 

[cpaulino]

I have had lots of luck with mushrooms just reproducing by themselves

 

[sapsap]

I don't have to do anything. Their growing crazy and overtaking my 180 gal. Anybody interested ? It's a blue mushroom. I've been flushing them..

 

[NanoNana]

I don't know if I was doing something wrong but every now and then mine would die from cutting so I got in the habit of using a runner band across the mouth to force a split. Maybe I'm just a big chicken...

 

[softieatheart]

I don't have to do anything. Their growing crazy and overtaking my 180 gal. Anybody interested ? It's a blue mushroom. I've been flushing them..

ME! Not ready for any yet though. Soon...........

 

[jasin401]

how bout cutting and fragging a hairy mushroom?