mushroom versus ricordia battle

[dfepeman]

My tank is getting overrun with mushrooms- A few months ago I put a nice ricordia on an isolated rock, and now it is surrounded by green-striped mushrooms. I've been watching and wondering who will win: sometimes the ricordia is overlaying the mushrooms, other times the mushrooms get the jump on it. This is sort of like watching a very slow wrestling match.

Anyhow, should I try to abate the mushrooms? I read a thread where someone use kalk, but I worry that I might get some on the nearby ricordia.

Any advice?

Oh, I don't want to get started on the star polyps taking everything over- that stuff is like a cancer, or the evil Borg

 

[Markdadof2]

Can you maybe chisel the mushroom off the rock and trade it to someone?

 

[shadowz40]

I have heard of people injecting the muschooms with kalk to kill them off. Try to isolate the gsp so it wont keep taking over other rocks.

 

[BigScott]

cut the greenstriped off the rock , then put superglue on whats left of the foot,,

 

[dfepeman]

Thanks, that sounds better than playing with kalk. I tried tweezers but that was messy and not very humane, so I'll try various razors and try the glue.

Regarding isolation from mushrooms, I have the whole left side of my tank beautifully encrusted with a mixture of green-striped and purple mushrooms, and they are sending out "nomads" to other areas of the tank. Between the star polyps and the mushrooms, I have some some serious migration battles in store. The star polyps are able to spread up the stalks of hammer coral and smother it. nasty stuff.

 

[theborgtank]

star polyps were much cooler when we knew nothing!

maybe you could move the ricordea if there is only one and many green striped mushrooms

i hope the ricordea wins if you leave them be