how to get rid of mushrooms

[u418936]

To my surprise, I killed some shrooms with Joe's juice last night. I had to turn off all my pumps, so that the current wouldn't move the paste around. I was also lucky, because my fish left the paste alone. They usually try to eat it lol.

It's hard to kill shrooms with Joe's juice, becuase unlike polyps, shrooms don't actually try to eat the paste.

 

[billr]

Still wouldn't mind having some. Don't have any at the moment to speak of..............

 

[paeSona]

thts crazy man cut a bunch off ill pay for them and ill pay for shipping 11378 and i want your problemm lmaoo

 

[russ49merc]

buy a dog face puffer he will eat all of them and then just get him out and return him to store

 

[supervdl]

I have hairy mushrooms and they spread like crazy. The hairy ones are tough to get off the rocks. The bluegreen smoth one are relatively easy to pull off the rock. Several rocks already made it to the LFS.

 

[Mislav]

@russ49merc

Are you sure about dog face puffer. Did you see this fish eating mushrooms? Will this fish eat other corals or prefeer other corals to mushrooms?

 

[russ49merc]

yeah I had a dog face and tried a cheap rock of mushrooms to see what would happen. and inless than an hour he had ate them right off of it. not sure about other corals

 

[timrandlerv10]

'just get him out'


THAT is the part I haven't mastered yet...

 

[KyleP]

If you can, put your shrooms face down in your sandbed. They will be devoured real quick.

 

[Mislav]

They will be devoured real quick.

By what? You mean puffer or something else?

 

[KyleP]

No, the organisms that make up the sand bed. I have small mushroom rocks and everytime they fall onto the sandbed and the mushrooms are face down in the sand, they are eaten. This is if I don't notice it for a couple of days...like vacation. They just melt away. If I have the problem that you have, I would try to bury the rocks with mushrooms facing down, as far into the sand bed as I could.

 

[Mislav]

This is a good idea, and I think it might work if I burry the rocks for some time.
Only problem is that I should burry all rocks from my aquarium.

 

[KyleP]

I would just bury what you can at one time. Even if that is only one rock at a time.

 

[Aliie]

Will that load your system with decay matter and boost your nitrates?

 

[KyleP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9202544#post9202544 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aliie
Will that load your system with decay matter and boost your nitrates?

I think this could happen if he did all the rocks at one time, but one rock at a time should not be a problem....also depends how efficient his protien skimmer is. If its a work horse, then this should nullify the problem.

 

[Aliie]

Other than a protien skimmer what other dosing could be used? I only have a modified tank with no skimmer.

BTW Hi GA BOY!!