Mushroom Coral Eradication

[tmrvstyle]

I know that killing coral isn't usually the best route, it seemed sac religious to me at first. But the point is when I moved from a 55 gal with hundreds of mushrooms covering every inch of the tank I wanted to start growing SPS in my 85 gal. I removed all the rocks I could spare with mushrooms and gave them to my friends, scrubbed rocks with one or two mushrooms to remove them and used what I could to set up my new tank. Now a year later I'm finding mushrooms popping up in some key locations and harming my SPS frags.

I've seen little success in the use of apistia removal treatments for apistia and don't know if it would be good to have a 3in mushroom dieing near my prize SPSs.

I'm open to any recommendations preferably not poisoning my tank.

 

[vegaskid11]

You can cut them off at the base then shoot the stump with Joe juice or a kalk solution. Personaly, I have no problems with shrooms hurting my sps. Ifthey get to close to the stalk then I trim them back and I am good.

 

[tmrvstyle]

Do you think that C-Balance (2 part Ca & alk solution) Ca part will be sufficient or should I use a concentrated Kalk solution. I'd like to remove them completely. I break things more and more trying to manuever in near the tops of the rocks.

 

[calvin415]

Guess I'll give this a bump... Looking to do the same thing... SPS reef got a few mushroom hitch hikers and now they are trying to take over. Need to get rid of them all!!!

 

[Mindcage133]

why not use a screwdriver and pluck them off one by one and turn them in for credit. it soulds as though that would be about as much work as killing them and at least you could use the money for a new frag or two or give them to a new hobbiest. I've used a flat screwdriver to rid a few mushrooms. very simple and nice way to get them out of the way

 

[calvin415]

To pull the rocks out would near impossible, as would trying to get a screw driver in between some of my colonies...

 

[luther1200]

I just injected a few with vinegar and then after a few minutes I plucked them off with angled tweezers. It worked the best of anything I have tried so far. Once they shrivvel up from the vinegar they are easy to pull off most of the time. I am going to try just the vinegar next and see what happens.

 

[CLINTOS]

Paring knife with live rock curving them with a tad bit of LR should work but the rest that are deep inside crevices try the above vinegar or kalk as thick as toothpaste

 

[tabwyo]

I've injected them with kalc paste and just let them do there thing. I just did a few a week and didn't notice anything funky in my water parameters.