Mushroom Rock

[Drewl117]

So I am up grading my 125 to a 210. I have this really cool piece of live rock that has been over grown with mushrooms... How do I get them off the rock? I don't want them in my new tank.

 

[KMS.Kyle]

I'm new here so this is just from my experience - but I've found that I've been able to softly/slowly scrape their base off the rock and relocate them (if you want to). They shrink up but if you put them somewhere without a lot of flow they will literally move/grab onto a new location within minutes.

 

[jraker]

mushrooms have one small are of their 'foot' that attaches to the rock. just cut that off and you should be good

 

[toothybugs]

Careful, some shrooms can be spread by leftovers. If you cut them, rinse the rock off and kalk paste the spot to seal it up.

 

[Drewl117]

There is a lot of them on there... I don't use Kalk, is there any other way?

 

[billdogg]

you can try an ice cube to get them to retract some, but will still need to do a bit of scraping. If you have another tank you can put the rock in for awhile, pointing a good strong powerhead at them will get them to move also.

 

[Drewl117]

you can try an ice cube to get them to retract some, but will still need to do a bit of scraping. If you have another tank you can put the rock in for awhile, pointing a good strong powerhead at them will get them to move also.

I'll have to try that... If I did get some Kalk would that mess with my parameters?

 

[billdogg]

It could if you use enough.