humane way to kill Mushrooms

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I am ready to rebuild my Aiptasia infested tank from scratch. I have around 20 or so big spotted mushrooms in it still. What is the most humane way to kill them or does it not really matter? I could just take out the rock and leave it in the sun I suppose. I know people grind them up to help propagate them so I am not sure if they feel pain.
 
Inject them with kalk paste or boiling water directly into their mouth. Drying them out is another option if you can take them out. Either way, just kill them, no need to have ethical restraint... as the previous poster mentioned, they have no central nervous system and are oblivious to pain. HTH, good luck.
 
Take the rock out and sell/trade it to someone who wants the mushrooms. In my local club there are always people wanting others "pests" (not including aptasia!)
 
I had mushrooms take over a tank once... I buried them, and 80lb of live rock, alive. Used them to fill a hole in the back yard.

Is that humane?
 
Better be ready to scrape algae off that rock for a year if you kill off the mushrooms by leaving them in the sun. Personally I'd inject them with boiling vinegar with a hypodermic and wait until they detach then get them out. Some people have good results with kalk paste but they tend to grow back after.
 
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