bigmatt1992
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need some advise i have a red mushroom with toxic green spots on it i want to frag. it but i never did this. its spliting in about 3 maybe 4 ways is about 3 inch in size how would i do this
fraging guestion
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with mushrooms your best bet is to just let them go. they are next to impossible to get to stick to a rock. i tried everything from gluing to sewing to rubber bands. the only time i was almost sucessful is when i placed rocks on the edge of a mushroom. after it attached i was going to cut the mushroom and hopefully have a new one sprout from it. unfortunately i wasn't gentle enough with it and it fell off the new rock before i could cut it. i wasted alot of shrooms and ricordia. most of them melted or just became detached and wound up behind my rockwork.
if you are interested in fragging what other corals do you have that are possible to frag? i probably wouldn't frag anything yet though until your algae and cloudy water go away.
if you are interested in fragging what other corals do you have that are possible to frag? i probably wouldn't frag anything yet though until your algae and cloudy water go away.
bigmatt1992
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i have a piece of neon green saleria that took off from when i got it its probly 5 inchs tall and with all the branches like 5 wide
bigmatt1992
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ive read to cut the mushroom like a piece of pizza. then glue a corner of it to a pieace of rubble rock.
cloakerpoked
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Glue almost never works. I've read bridal veil will, if you wrap it loosely around the shroom and rock you want the shroom to attach to for like 3 weeks, but I think it's just too much work for mushrooms. Put a rock in its way and let nature take its course....
bigmatt1992
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but how should i frag them becouse i dont want to screw it up these are very diffrent looken shrooms
cloakerpoked
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With mushrooms, i would never frag them by cutting them. The only cutting I do is if they are going where I don't want them. Then I set out to destroy them with scissors and a toothbrush. (Let it be noted, that this is not at all an effective kill technique, and I almost always end up with 3 new mushrooms. Despite my success in "fragging" mushrooms with this method, I attribute it to Murphy's Rule, not an actual technique that should be replicated.) If you want to get new mushroom frags, wait until you have 20 of them on a rock...use a chisel and cut the whole rock in half. If you don't want to do that, then put a rock in their way, and hope they grow in its direction and cover it soon (i.e. a few months.) If you don't want to do that, good luck with the whole cutting thing, as I've found that even when you do cut them, its almost impossible to get them to attach where and when you want them.
bigmatt1992
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haha so what your saying is forget fraging them let them split and do there own thing .ive had this one mushroom since my nano and it just now spliting.
cloakerpoked
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Yes...or experiment yourself at your own risk...I sure don't have a proven method for making it work.
bigmatt1992
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i was talk to some guy on reefmonkey. he said rubber band them down to a frag plug for a month and that should work but i dont know.
Tswifty
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If you rubber band it too tightly, it will cut right through the flesh in a few days. Superglue doesn't work either... they just slime it off.
The only method I've had success with (I hate mushrooms btw...) is to cut them at the base with a razor blade, and throw them in the sump or a container with rock rubble (then I kalk past the remnants, but that is for eradication... not propagation :lol: )
Believe me, if any of that dang mushroom's flesh is left on the rock, it will grow back... fast at that. The more you hate them... the faster they grow.
The only method I've had success with (I hate mushrooms btw...) is to cut them at the base with a razor blade, and throw them in the sump or a container with rock rubble (then I kalk past the remnants, but that is for eradication... not propagation :lol: )
Believe me, if any of that dang mushroom's flesh is left on the rock, it will grow back... fast at that. The more you hate them... the faster they grow.
johndawg
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I agree...get a qt or pt plastic container, add crushed coral or LR rubble to cover the bottom, cut up the shroom, put in a low flow area, and in a couple of days they will attach, then you can glue the crushed coral piece where ever you need, LR or plug.
Hope that helps.
John
bigmatt1992
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i get how to mount them now. but were should i cut them?
the2ofus
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Come on now TJ :lol:
He wants more of them, not less:rollface:
Matt,
I've heard people cut them in half, 3rds, 4ths, like a pizza. Each piece needs to have part of the mouth on it.
I started with a rock that had maybe 25 purple shrooms on it, over time they have multiplied, I've given some away, they've multiplied, did I mention they multiply?
I'm sure I have over 50 in the tank.
I also have red n green and purple n green, they have never multiplied.....still one of each.
I wouldn't cut up everything you have, try cutting one and see what happens.
give'm time to attach to something.
He wants more of them, not less:rollface:
Matt,
I've heard people cut them in half, 3rds, 4ths, like a pizza. Each piece needs to have part of the mouth on it.
I started with a rock that had maybe 25 purple shrooms on it, over time they have multiplied, I've given some away, they've multiplied, did I mention they multiply?
I'm sure I have over 50 in the tank.
I also have red n green and purple n green, they have never multiplied.....still one of each.
I wouldn't cut up everything you have, try cutting one and see what happens.
give'm time to attach to something.
bigmatt1992
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ooo ok, so if i cut them at the base a new mush room will grow from the part still stuck to the rock. then whats all the stuff i here about cuting them like a pizza?
bigmatt1992
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ok ill try to cut a small one and see what happens.
thanatos696
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This guy has a lot of video classes and almost all of his techniques that I have tried have worked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbWJ70oy9M
One change to his method on mushrooms that I would make is cut down on the number of times you try to cut the mushroom. If the mushroom is 1" or less once you get it out of the tank, then I would only cut it in half. Dont try to get 4 out of the shrooms that you have.
I just had this work on a very nice superman shroom.
A second note that I would add is that the rubble rock you use should be VERY small or the shrooms will drop down between them and will melt. I use very coarse beach sand for the rubble tub.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbWJ70oy9M
One change to his method on mushrooms that I would make is cut down on the number of times you try to cut the mushroom. If the mushroom is 1" or less once you get it out of the tank, then I would only cut it in half. Dont try to get 4 out of the shrooms that you have.
I just had this work on a very nice superman shroom.
A second note that I would add is that the rubble rock you use should be VERY small or the shrooms will drop down between them and will melt. I use very coarse beach sand for the rubble tub.
