Moving Shrooms

[Sparty00]

Quick question I want to through out to the experts here on RC. Is it possible to remove a mushroom from a rock and move to another rock?

If so, how do you remove it?

Thanks !!

 

[Andrew]

Yes. Just take a razor blade and run it under the foot of the shroom to remove it and than attach it to another rock or frag plug with a rubber band.

 

[papagimp]

yeah, what he said. just keep in mind that in all likelyhood, another shroom will pop up where you cut the one off from. Any little tidbits left over on the rock can easily form continue to heal and grow and you get...ta-da!...another shroom. there are ways to get around that though. I use a potent bubble coral and a potent frogspawn to keep my shrooms and many other fast growers at bay and from spreading around my tank. They grow and spread, get close to my much meaner corals and get burned back. keeps em in line. Just have to keep the brown jelly sucked out if a shroom decides to go that route.

 

[Sparty00]

You make it sound so easy ....So is it easy to identify or see the foot below? A couple of mine look like they are within holes in the rock. Is it possible to cut wrong and kill it?

 

[papagimp]

Sparty, I have heard numerous reports of people literally throwing a shroom in a blender, chopping them up and spreading the remains around the tank as a means to spread shrooms. They are just that hardy. Cut any little piece of and secure it to some substrate and in all likelyhood it'll regrow. One method I use for progogating my shrooms is to chop the top clean off and dice it like a pizza. I'll get between 4 to 8 frags depending on the size of the cap I cut off. Now as with all corals, when you slice them/cut them or whatever, there is a chance of the coral getting a brown jelly infection and simple melting away to nothing. If this happens get the infected out and in the trash quickly. Brown jelly can spread around a tank like a bad virus. I have one hairy musrhoom that will brown jelly with every attempt to cut him, but yet he'll die off and 4 more will grow where he was. Then I have others that I want out of my tank and all the slicing and dicing and intentional attempts to kill it only make it grow and spread more. stubborn little shrooms.

If they are down in a hole, just cut the cap off, the foot will regrow a new cap in time and the cap will regrow a new foot in time. the foot is just the base of the shroom, lift up the cap to see it, or wait until the shroom is shriveled up some. You can even just slice the foot at an angle, don't cut if off, just a slice and it'll sprout another shroom from that cut. A nice way to thicken up a currently existing colony of shrooms.

 

[Pandomime]

Its Very hard to kill a shroom, for the most part they are very hardy. If you happen to damage them it might just take a lot longer for them to heal but they do eventually.

 

[dustybuddy]

its mad easy. just make sure u get most of it.

 

[Sparty00]

Papa / Pandom thanks for the info, as you can see I a new to this especially propagating any corals. Good information to know, was not aware they were that hardy.

Thanks again for the info !!!

 

[papagimp]

Sparty, they are so hardy that they can quickly become a "nuisance" coral in your tank. Much like GSP's or Kenya Tree, Xenia and many others. They grow and spread so quickly they can cover the entire tank quickly and smother out many other species. So make darn sure you are happy withwhere you are putting them. Much easier to get it right the first time than to try and remove lot's of shrooms later on (without having to get rid of an entire rock that is)