How mobile are mushrooms?

[SaltyDr]

I have what appears to be a brown discosoma mushroom that arrived as a hitchhiker on my liverock. This thing moves all over the place, and quite quickly (well, more like an inch in a minute or so) What seems odd is that it likes to hide and never comes out when the lights are on. Does this seem normal? I'll get a pic when I can, but this little guy can be elusive.

 

[justinl]

inch per minute? that's no coral my friend. maybe a mushroom attached the the shell of a snail? got a pic?

 

[SaltyDr]

I'll try to get a pic. I know, this thing moves a lot faster than I would hve thought. I never actually timed it, but it can cross a rock in 10 minutes or so. Weird.

 

[J. Montgomery]

Mushrooms move around mostly by detaching their base and floating in the current. Other than that, they only "move" about one body length over the course of a week or so. Anything moving faster than that is probably not a mushroom.

 

[Steveabg]

We had a shell with a red discosoma attached to it, and one of the hermit crabs changed his shell for the one with the mushroom on it. He had his very own battle helmet.

 

[DetectiveTofu]

I agree with the above, I am skeptical about a mushroom moving at that rate =) Probably attached to a hermit crab shell

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Now, I've had a mushrooms move it's body length in a 24 hour period, but not an inch a minute. I would definitely suspect other modes of transportation than an actual physical form of locomotion coming from the mushroom

 

[SaltyDr]

I have answered the mystery! What I thought was a mushoorm is really a fleshy limpet! It was always seen at night and usually on the underside of a rock so I never got a good look at it. I haven't read anything favorable about them, so I think it's gotta go...

 

[kingfisher62]

How about some pics?