Hairy mushroom how aggressive?

megatsea

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I have a small yellow goby who perches on one of my mushrooms in my 10 gallon. I have a newly acquired hairy mushroom. Will the goby be ok if he decides to perch on the hairy mushroom? How aggressive are they please so I know how far apart to place it from other corals?
Thankyou.
 
I have a hairy mushroom and my goby rests on it all the time. At first, the mushroom would react and curl up and the goby would move away, now, about a month later, it doesn't move at all when he "lays" on it.

I believe when I got mine it stated that they should be 4-6 inches away from other corals.

Not sure about how much sting they have however, the other day, one of my large Mexican Turbo snails was cleaning under/around it and all of a sudden the snail dropped to the bottom of the tank. I uprighted the snail and he didn't move for a couple hours..it reacted like he had been stung. I'm not sure if that's what happened but it sure seemed like it. Kinda funny that he hasn't got back to that area since.

The goby still hangs on the mushroom every day and the mushroom appears to have grown almost 2 inches in the month I've had it!
 
yea they arent that aggressive but they sure do grow very fast and get big. mine have even hosted a maroon clown
 

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I feel better now as the goby is very entertaining perching on my shroom...I thought to bring the hairy mushroom to the same tank(I have it in the 20 gallon ) to give the goby another spot... what fish would be compatible with the goby in a 10 gallon? Any advice?
Thanks!
 
I have two ocellaris clowns that host in a hairy mushroom. At night when the mushroom closes up, the fish still cuddle up to it. The mushroom doesn't even react to them being in it during the daytime. they even chew on it sometimes, and it doesn't react at all.
 
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