Mushrooms Everywhere

MaineReef22

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I have so many purple mushrooms now there taking over my tank. How can i make it so they are only in one area instead of all over the place. Im afraid if i cut them off the areas i dont want them a little bit of tissue left behind will just grow more.
 
Mushrooms will go wherever they want, unfortunately. After I got rid of the last of mine, I found one in the overflow. They tend to cast themselves adrift when the local density gets high enough.
 
I wold trade in the rocks to your lfs or sell them on your local reefers site and you could get something better in return. I have sps, lps, clams, zoos and some big mushrooms, but Ican't get the ones you have to grow for anything.
 
You can slice them off as close to the rock as possible then smear the rremaining flesh with kalk paste. It may take several applications over the course of a few days, but it will kill off the remaining flesh. Also works for xenia.
 
Yea that's is what I've been doing. I had a few mushrooms and then last year I did a major re-aquascape which involved taking all the LR out, building columns and putting them back. The result was a mushroom explosion. I have mushrooms everywhere, covering many, many rocks. So many that I've had to pull out the LR that I can, boil it for 20 minutes, then scrub off the melting mushrooms. I smother the mushrooms with kalk on the rocks I can't remove (lower in the tank. I've got a long way to go but I have made a significant impact and maybe removed 20% so far. It's a long project and a nasty one and I'm taking my time.

Be careful to turn off any additional flow pumps when you do the Kalk pasting. My Tunzes just blast it off. The mushroom needs to be covered for quite a few hours to be killed. Haven't timed it but 12 hours seems to do the job.

For me it's green mushrooms. I think they are Actinodiscus sp.
 
I chucked my mushroom rock outside b/c they got out of control. I will never have any type of mushroom ever again. Nor xenia as well as kenya trees....
 
I've come to the conclusion that all zoas/xenia/shrooms/etc have both delusions of grandeur and visions of global domination...
 
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