LPS and Mushrooms

[guntercb]

Hello,

I read somewhere that LPS and mushrooms do not mix well. The article claimed that if mushrooms touch LPS that the LPS usually start to receed. Can anyone post their experiences with mushrooms and LPS in the same tank. Have you had issues? No issues?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Obi-dad]

May depend on the LPS. I bet the mushrooms lose to acans. Also lose to LPS with sweepers like favia, galaxia, etc.

 

[clsanchez77]

Is it only a touching issue or is there significant chemical warfare involved too? I just setup and my plans were ricordea, zoos and gorgs with one LPS (lobophylia) showpiece in a 90gal. My plan was so that there would be plenty of buffer space between, but if the chemical activity will be violent, I may need to rethink.

Chris

 

[Obi-dad]

I don't think the ones you list are high on the list of chemical warfare corals. Some like Sinularia are highly toxic, but can be kept easily with others by using some activated carbon and skimming. Eric Borneman's book of aqaurium corals has some mention of toxicity of different corals (I think that is the book, I don't have it right here). I keep all of these mentioned in close proximity, although I do run some carbon.

 

[clsanchez77]

Thanks, I also skim and carbon.

Chris, what speific mushrooms and LPS did you have in mind?

 

[guntercb]

I was thinking about the Touch Coral (Euphyllia Glabrescens) placed at the top of a rock with mushrooms on the bottom of the rock. So they would eventually meet.. (-: As for the type of mushrooms, I have not decided I was going to see what I could eventually trade shrooms from other reefers.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[killagoby]

I have 2 different colored mushrooms and 2 different colored zoos in a 29 gallon w/ 10 LPS's. When the mushrooms were next to one of my open brains they "burned" it. Once I switched that piece with my cynaria the cynaria was not effected like the open brain was...

 

[guntercb]

Killagoby,

Thanks for sharing the fact that your open brain got burned. Because shrooms propogate so fast. I think maybe I will leave them out my next setup. I plain on having some brains and I don't want issue.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Obi-dad]

Interesting. My open brain was unharmed by touching regular (not the 'hairy' type) mushrooms. In my experience regular mushrooms have not harmed anything else. Killagoby, what type of mushroom did the damage?

 

[Kogo]

 

[zarro]

nice pics

 

[finsurgeon]

I've noticed that blue shrooms sting harder than brown or green. I had a 3 head frogspawn get stung, one head at a time, by blue shrooms propagating into its space. I had a combo rock that got crowded, with the browns "jumping off" first followed by the green striped, leaving the blues and blue-greens as the owners of the rock.