Is my mushroom doomed? (pic)

[jmac4978]

I put this mushroom into a glass with a small rock in it so it would attach about 2 weeks ago. I've been neglecting the tank for a couple days this week and today when I did a water change, I looked closely at this shroom. It was closed up in the corner of the glass and is still loose, not attached to the rock. I opened it up and found these little white things growing on the mushroom. They themselves look like tiny mushrooms growing on top of one another. They look kinda sick really, like a disease. Here's a pic of them, but my camera doesnt get really good macros but I think you can get an idea. The water in the glass also smells bad Should I get this out of my tank asap?

 

[Laura Senchuk]

I can't tell from the pic but you said the water smelled so yes you have a problem. But it could make a come back. The real issue is how you tried to get it to attach. Instead of a glass with no flow to it you want to put the shroom on a small rock take a piece of netting and rubberband it to the rock. Not so the band is on the shroom just to keep the netting snug. The shroom needs the flow and light. You can also use a shallow plastic dish with water flow thru it but I find the netting works best. I even cut a filter bag once and used that as the netting. I have done this many times with shrooms, yuma's and Ric's. It takes less time with shrooms than the others. Good luck.

 

[firefighter6681]

Yes like Laura Senchuk said netting is the best. I have people tell me they use super glue. I would say the white on the Mushroom is its guts. I seen the same stuff when I'm cutting my mushrooms up. I would say you can keep it in the tank just take it out of the cup so that it can get waterflow.

You can buy the Netting at the fabric store. Hope this helps

 

[jmac4978]

Thanks alot guys, I'll head to the cloth store today and hopefully this guy will bounce back.

 

[Laura Senchuk]

How is your shroom doing did you get some netting?

 

[jmac4978]

Well, I didnt go out and get netting, because I found a media bag lying around...bad idea! I secured them saturday night and then tonight, monday night, I checked them and they melted. Completely melted :mad2: And to top it off, the one I have left of the four, the one that came attached to rock now has that white thing growing on it...I'm so disgusted.

 

[firefighter6681]

Hey jmac4978 sorry to hear that. I found this site to help some with mushrooms. If you go to the site on the left side just go to Propagation then down to the mushrooms or what ever your looking for. Even if you not cuting they explain alot of things

 

[Laura Senchuk]

You must have some other issues going on, infection in that colony maybe... especially if it's happening to one's that are attached? I'm not sure I have never had any problems netting. Sorry to hear this. How is your water testing?

 

[Brock Fluharty]

It's not something growing on the shrooms. It is the insides of the shroom. If you frag them by cutting them in half, this stuff spills out.

 

[Laura Senchuk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8179388#post8179388 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brock Fluharty
It's not something growing on the shrooms. It is the insides of the shroom. If you frag them by cutting them in half, this stuff spills out.

If you read the whole post you would see he was having trouble getting them to attach and felt they may have a disease not trying to frag them.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

I did read the post. I was just saying that if someone cuts a shroom in half, this stuff spills out. I hate it when rude people make assumptions...

 

[Laura Senchuk]

I didn't assume anything and I don't feel I was being rude. You posted that it wasn't growing on the shroom as the poster felt it was but that it was the guts. Yes anyone who has fragged a shroom knows this happens however the poster didn't frag it they were trying to get it to attach. And I was trying to help the poster with the problem before they lost the whole colony not get in a debate with you.