I am fairly new to the hobby. I have had my tank for about a year. I have a very small rock with a beautiful purple and sky blue mushroom. This mushroom has had 4 babies since I have had it. But the largest covers the babies from light. I want to remove the babies from the rock and place elsewhere but I have no idea on how to do this. Do i actually have to cut off a piece of the rock with the mushroom? or am I able to cut the actual stalk from the rock? Please help!
How to frag mushrooms?
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philosophile
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If its a baby mushroom.... I would probably not want to cut the stalk off, because it may not reattach and just melt away... So I would chisel it out of the rock and glue somewhere where I want it.
It would be easier for you to move the big mushroom (just cut the stalk). Once you cut it off, the foot will grow into a new mushroom. The top, put it in a plastic cup, with some live rock rubble in it. Put it in a place where there is low flow, and cover it with some veil mesh, so the water doesn't get stagnant (bridal veil). Wait about a week or so. After a week, it should be attached to a piece of rock. Take that rock, and glue it where you want to.
If you want to frag the mushroom, cut it in half through the mouth. Dip in lugols to prevent infection, and repeat the stick it on some rock rubble. Make sure both pieces have some of the mouth. I'd start cutting from the mouth, and move outwards, to be safe. Try to do all of this quickly. The faster you go, the more likely you won't kill your shroom. Also clean clean clean everything, and get a sharp sharp sharp knife.
It would be easier for you to move the big mushroom (just cut the stalk). Once you cut it off, the foot will grow into a new mushroom. The top, put it in a plastic cup, with some live rock rubble in it. Put it in a place where there is low flow, and cover it with some veil mesh, so the water doesn't get stagnant (bridal veil). Wait about a week or so. After a week, it should be attached to a piece of rock. Take that rock, and glue it where you want to.
If you want to frag the mushroom, cut it in half through the mouth. Dip in lugols to prevent infection, and repeat the stick it on some rock rubble. Make sure both pieces have some of the mouth. I'd start cutting from the mouth, and move outwards, to be safe. Try to do all of this quickly. The faster you go, the more likely you won't kill your shroom. Also clean clean clean everything, and get a sharp sharp sharp knife.
cet98
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leave it alone...the baby shrooms will be just fine...they will grow (as they already have been doing so) and as they get bigger, they will move and spread just like the original polyp that made them...
think of it this way, is there someone in the ocean fragging mushrooms to allow the babies to grow or does nature just take it's course and figure it out on it's own?
think of it this way, is there someone in the ocean fragging mushrooms to allow the babies to grow or does nature just take it's course and figure it out on it's own?
Turbo snail
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The way that I frag larger mushrooms is this:
1. cut the mushroom off the rock so it leaves just a little bit of the foot, this will grow back into a (slightly smaller) new mushroom
2. take the top part of the mushroom, cut it like a pizza into 4 quarters, making sure to get a bit of the central mouth in each chunk
3. Let the mushroom quarters float in my frag tank that i have filled with small rubble rock,l allowing the mushrooms to attach themselves
This leads to 1 mushroom becoming 5. They all grow back to a full circular coral within a couple weeks, and it helps maintain the population in my show tank while shrinking those shrooms that could smother my other corals.
1. cut the mushroom off the rock so it leaves just a little bit of the foot, this will grow back into a (slightly smaller) new mushroom
2. take the top part of the mushroom, cut it like a pizza into 4 quarters, making sure to get a bit of the central mouth in each chunk
3. Let the mushroom quarters float in my frag tank that i have filled with small rubble rock,l allowing the mushrooms to attach themselves
This leads to 1 mushroom becoming 5. They all grow back to a full circular coral within a couple weeks, and it helps maintain the population in my show tank while shrinking those shrooms that could smother my other corals.
Katar1975
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I like to cut the foot of the mushroom and have a good current going at it to stop it from joining back onto the main stock. It will eventually bud into its own mushroom and I chisel the piece of rock off onto a small plug. If it floats away I use mesh to hold it in place on a plug or rubble. It eventually takes hold and you have your frag. It is time consuming but safer for the main mushroom. I do not like cutting the mouth of the coral, I have lost coral attempting that in the past.
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