How to deal with mushrooms taking over the tank?

[sig_1959]

I got to many and they start to bother corals. There is no way that I can take out the rocks or cut out mushrooms properly.

somebody told me that I can use a needle with the lemon juice to kill them.
Please advice for the best solution
Thanks

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

Take a clean razor blade and gently scrape them off your rock work turn them into frags and sell or trade them to local hobbyists and stores. That"s what I do. I can usually get enough to pay for a new bucket of salt or even buying a new coral from LA divers den every few months. Its worth the time. No reason to kill them off when people pay money for them every day.

 

[sig_1959]

Tried, but pieces are just flow to other places and they grow again. I know one guy who uses grinder to make small pieces and grow them to sell later

 

[Joshporksandwic]

I had the same problem and when i started cutting them to sell they stopped reproducing LOL. Just cut with a knife and put in a small container with rocks and no flow. if you start killing them in the tank the dead pieces can fall in other corals and kill them or crash your tank so be careful.

Sent from somewhere

 

[leadsinker]

Early morning before the Mushroom have opened up, with a screw driver try to brake the lr around the mushroom. Grab the lr with mushrooms, take the screw diver and press it next to were the shroom is attached, apply pressure with the screw driver blade tip. Live rock should break , flake or crumble off with the shroom on it. With the small amount of lr still attached to the mushroom, makes it easier to glue to lr.

Smaller size screw driver tend to dig in lr better

If you can pull live rock out of tank, do so.

Get a dremel rotory tool with diamond bit cut wheel, make one cut , wedge screw driver into cut, dislodges mushroom with bigger chunk of lr

 

[sig_1959]

Thank you all. I will better get Joe`s Juice that will use dremel rotory tool in my tank :crazy1:

 

[ChiiBear]

I'm having the same problem too! Sig_1959, have you tried Joe's juice and how did it work? Any ill effects on sps and other corals?