Hairy Mushroom

[jtgrimes]

Added a Hairy mushroom frag to my tank the other day. Already starting to spread out over the rock it was attached to. I was wondering how far apart from other coral i need to keep it. I only have a 30 gallon right now but will soon be in a 75 gal.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

 

[gary greguire]

that will depend on the type of hairy mushroom it is I had some that would open up to the size of a dinner plate....

 

[Ncastro1981]

will hairy mushrooms send out sweepers or somthing?

 

[jtgrimes]

I don't know about sweepers I do know, well read they can kill anything(coral) that comes near it. Mine right now is only gotten 4" in width/depth.

 

[Whisperer]

If you have the rhodactis, the only thing that tolerates them are discosomas. Even zoanthids do not like near them. They do not have stingers or sweeper tentacles that I have seen.
Here are some old pics of my rhodactis. Note the discosoma behind (blue).

 

[jtgrimes]

This is like mine....image I found.

<image src="http://www.tpblbaseball.com/images/Reef%20Tank%20Pics/Green%20Hairy%20Mushroom.jpg">

 

[Whisperer]

Those look like rhodactis. They may behave as I said. Only discosomas do not mind sitting next to them.

 

[jtgrimes]

Is it hard to frag later on if I wanted? Also I currently have the frag near the middle/top since I have pc lighting. But when I move to the 75 gallon soon I will have Halide lighting, am I going to have to move the position of the frag or will it be fine? I also know I'm going to have to shade the tank from the halides little by little until they get use to it.

 

[aentrop]

mushrooms do not have sweepers, instead they secrete a nasty slime, killing anything that touches them for any extended period of time.

 

[jtgrimes]

Yeah I have never seen the sweepers. The only time I saw sweepers is when I had my tongue coral.

 

[jtgrimes]

i am moving to halide lighting am I going to need to put the mushroom on the sand bed or is it ok in a mid to high position. I know im going to have to adjust them for at least a few weeks using eggcrate and screen.

 

[bromion]

Hairy mushrooms have infested my tank. They grow like wildfire and are rather toxic. I had a birdsnest in close proximity to some RTN recently. I think it was due to mushroom toxicity. So be careful and keep up your water changes if you end up with a lot of them.