ID on my new "radioactive mushroom"

[reefbroao]

Got this at my LFS and really loved the colors. They only had a few and they told me they were fairly rare/ the last breeder in the Seattle area left his last crop with them before moving. Pictures aren't great but it is a very vibrant neon green/purple. they called them Nuclear Mushrooms.

its also pretty shrunk up. but I'm assuming that's because its been handled a lot in the past few hours.

 

[PfenWendt]

Looks like some kind of ricordia to me, sure someone else will chime in soon with more experience, very nice mushroom though, id definitely want one

 

[reefbroao]

yeah I wish I could get a better picture. It's stunning, and I've never seen one like it before. Cant wait for it to open up.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Yes it could be a Ricordea. Please turn off the actinic (blue) lights and then take the picture. Can't really tell what it is from those pictures.

 

[reefbroao]

turned the light off

 

[lifeoffaith]

Looks like it could be a large hairy mushroom to me.

 

[reefbroao]

The bulb in the middle is a characteristic I haven't seen much so far.

 

[Gagonzalez]

That does look like a hairy mushroom. Definitely not Ricordea. The bulbs look like there is 3 mouths open.

 

[reefbroao]

So this could mean there is validity around them saying they are rare. Normally I take that with a grain of salt and chalk it up to a salesman's pitch. But so far I've not seen any that look identical to this specimen.

 

[reefbroao]

Went to the LFS and he said that it's a hairy mushroom, and that its splitting so that's good news I suppose

 

[reefbroao]

If anyone's still following this thread, I discovered another bell thing/ new mushroom polyp on the underside of the LR I was given. Apparently these specific guys are fairly rare as another store owner told me today.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I agree with hairy mushroom but those three white things in the middle look more like heads from a LPS coral. Or are they really mouths? Have you tried feeding the three heads, or mouths whatever they are?

 

[reefbroao]

no I haven't. It wouldn't be terrible to try and feed it I suppose. I have some mysis I can try with