Mushroom eater

[BAJABOWLER]

I'm looking for a fish that will keep fuzzy mushrooms in check. These things are slowly killing off the SPS corals in my tank.

 

[snorvich]

If you find one, buy two and send one to me.

 

[LisaD]

my dogface puffer LOVES mushrooms, did not bother other corals, though I didn't have SPS in the tank.

 

[NexDog]

I would pay a small fortune for a fish that will eat mushrooms the way my tangs and angels eat algae.

The mushroom population in my tank has simply exploded in the last year since I redid the aquascape. I guess redoing the rockwork dispersed the damn things around the tank and they are EVERYWHERE.

 

[angel-luver!!]

im sure there would be a nudibranch species for eating mushrooms, there seems to be one for everything else. maybe have a little research, be interesting to know. unfortunatly a lot of people start off with mushrooms due to them being fairly easy to look after! i had the same issue with a mushroom colony that spread into my green caulastrea and killed off several heads.
i literally just got a blade and scraped the off the rock, though the small amount of tissue left behind grew back into more mushrooms, but it at least gave the other corals a break from being attacked.

 

[blface]

My blueface mows them down like weeds. I started with about a 100 or more
& I'm down to about only a dozen or so left. He ate all of the green ones first
& then moved on to the orange ones. All that's left are the blue ones now &
they are very small from his tasting them. I do feed my tank very well so I know
he's not starving. This blueface is very strange because it rarely ever eats frozen
food. It prefers pellets & nori.

 

[NexDog]

Wouldn't a Blueface also feast on my Hammers and Frogspawns.