How can I remove hundreds of blu spotted mushrooms

[jacopasqui]

Hello everybody,
Can anybody help me to solve this problem?
I have hundreds of beautifull blue spotted discosoma in my tank.
The panoramic view is very very nice, but now they are growing everywhere.
I lost 1 euphyllia paradivisa yellow polips and some sps colonies where bourned because they are very aggressive.
I tried to put on that some live rocks and then after they where attached , make frags ( and it works fine) but after few week they restart growing and it all start again.
I tried to syringing them whit hot vinagre but the discosoma retired anly for some days and nothing else.
Any suggestion?
Thank You
Jacopo from Italy

 

[jacopasqui]

This is the other side
The tank is 350 L ( about 90 G ) and is 100 cm x60x65 (h)

 

[saltyair]

following along - great question. I have personally just tried to scrape them off (they do grow back)

 

[phoenixstar89]

the only way easy way to get rid of them permanently is to remove the rocks that they are on. cutting, scraping, injecting doesn't really do a good job. they usually just come back. I'd recommend selling them and the rocks they are on all off and using the money to just buy new live rock if you really want them gone.

 

[Fretfreak13]

Wow you poor thing! lol

I agree, sell those rocks. Or at least trade them in at the LFS for new ones. I know of no LFS that wont take rocks WITH coral in exchange for rocks without. lol

 

[accordsirh22]

if you wunna just chop em off and send me some, i wont complain at all haha

 

[Dmorty217]

Don't buy them in the first place! This happens to more people than not

 

[jacopasqui]

Wow you poor thing! lol

I agree, sell those rocks. Or at least trade them in at the LFS for new ones. I know of no LFS that wont take rocks WITH coral in exchange for rocks without. lol

Unfortunately they have colonized a large quantity of rocks... I had to rebuilt all the aquascaping of the tank.

 

[jacopasqui]

Do you know if any tipe of sea star or nudibrach or shrimp eat the discosoma?

This tank is 3 years old and some rocks ( whith discosoma ) comes from my old tank. I buy the first colony in 2007.
Think that the rocks were stored in my garage in a plastic tank whith a skimmer whith no light for 2 months to eliminate all the pumping Xenia and the discosoma colonies.
After 6 moths in the new tank I started to find another time de mushrooms :-(

 

[vair]

You'll need some new rock, they grow like weeds.

 

[Dmorty217]

Think base rock and buy a single piece of liverock to seed the base rock or get some from a fellow reefer

 

[Mranderson]

i would gladly pay good money for a colony. I fair well with scraping the foot off good. then if you want to be sure, chip the rock where it was or mutilate the spot guts can reproduce sometimes not all the time but they fare well. easy peasy, in my opinion. Sometimes when they're stressed out, you can finagle them off the rock. - as if your about to cut them off, but if you can, in an action somehow, hint to the mushroom something intends to remove it from the rock and depending on the mushroom it might begin to release a portion, half or all of its foot in an attempt to float and tumble away.

but seriously, i would gladly pay to rid you of your "plague." i love shrooms. i'm in pa if you want to consider hooking up or ship rates i'll cover

p.s. i'm sure you know, don't work on em in your tank, as i've said they like to float if theyre discos and that would displease you more

 

[Mranderson]

oh damn, i could see them in the thumbnails before, but i actually just clicked on them. they are growing where mushrooms grow. yea that's tricky. no removing that rock nicely. hmmm. idk.. yea i was thinking there must rightfully be another limiting species out there but i don't know. zoanthid eating starfish.. etc. there's gotta be something. i'm no help, good luck with that. sounds like you can get other people to pay for your new rock.

 

[lokii_37]

There is a guy in my local club who just had to take out all his rock and boil it so he could get rid of the shrooms. They were stinging his beautiful sps. However it did give him a chance to re-scape his tank

 

[jacopasqui]

i would gladly pay good money for a colony. I fair well with scraping the foot off good. then if you want to be sure, chip the rock where it was or mutilate the spot guts can reproduce sometimes not all the time but they fare well. easy peasy, in my opinion. Sometimes when they're stressed out, you can finagle them off the rock. - as if your about to cut them off, but if you can, in an action somehow, hint to the mushroom something intends to remove it from the rock and depending on the mushroom it might begin to release a portion, half or all of its foot in an attempt to float and tumble away.

but seriously, i would gladly pay to rid you of your "plague." i love shrooms. i'm in pa if you want to consider hooking up or ship rates i'll cover

p.s. i'm sure you know, don't work on em in your tank, as i've said they like to float if theyre discos and that would displease you more

I live in Italy... is not so simple to ship live rocks whith mushrooms on