mushrooms in a blender
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DNA :You know and I Know and Everybody knows that it will work with Aiptasias that's why we don't want to give it a try. I found this weird Aiptasias yesterday in one of Ron's at Ron's Saltwater Heaven and I asked him if he knows what that is and he said that he had no clue but it almost looks like Heteroxenia exept it has Aiptasias color.
ive propagated lots of shrooms not in the blinder though
ive cut them up in lots of little pieces
and just cut the head of as close to the top as possible
the second method being the fastest
alot of the little pieces didnt make it mabey because i didnt do it in the best conditions all i had was a little tray hanging between the glass and the overflow with a thin layer of crushed oyster shell on the bottom
the main problem was the alge that grew on the oyster shell
mabey if i let the oyster shell stay in the tank long enough to get past the dinoflangent bloom before putting shrooms on it
it would of worked better
ive also tryed directly attaching them to the rocks
its alot easyer to get it attached to a piece of crushed coral or oyster shell first then gluing it
i think if they could be propagated as fast and easy in the blinder thered be alot more for sale cheaper
id love a few hundred blue tonga shrooms propagated from two or three in the blinder right now
anybody?
ive cut them up in lots of little pieces
and just cut the head of as close to the top as possible
the second method being the fastest
alot of the little pieces didnt make it mabey because i didnt do it in the best conditions all i had was a little tray hanging between the glass and the overflow with a thin layer of crushed oyster shell on the bottom
the main problem was the alge that grew on the oyster shell
mabey if i let the oyster shell stay in the tank long enough to get past the dinoflangent bloom before putting shrooms on it
it would of worked better
ive also tryed directly attaching them to the rocks
its alot easyer to get it attached to a piece of crushed coral or oyster shell first then gluing it
i think if they could be propagated as fast and easy in the blinder thered be alot more for sale cheaper
id love a few hundred blue tonga shrooms propagated from two or three in the blinder right now
anybody?
Cakepro
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Courtesy of Merriam-Webster's online dictionary:
Dinoflagellate
Main Entry: diÃ"šÃ‚·noÃ"šÃ‚·flaÃ"šÃ‚·gelÃ"šÃ‚·late
Pronunciation: "dI-nO-'fla-j&-l&t, -"lAt; -fl&-'je-l&t
Function: noun
Etymology: ultimately from Greek dinos rotation, eddy + New Latin flagellum
Date: 1889
: any of an order (Dinoflagellata) of chiefly marine planktonic usually solitary unicellular phytoflagellates that include luminescent forms, forms important in marine food chains, and forms causing red tide
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So, was the mushrooms in a blender experiment declared a failure? Surely by now you would have had some grow if anything survived.
~ Sherri
Dinoflagellate
Main Entry: diÃ"šÃ‚·noÃ"šÃ‚·flaÃ"šÃ‚·gelÃ"šÃ‚·late
Pronunciation: "dI-nO-'fla-j&-l&t, -"lAt; -fl&-'je-l&t
Function: noun
Etymology: ultimately from Greek dinos rotation, eddy + New Latin flagellum
Date: 1889
: any of an order (Dinoflagellata) of chiefly marine planktonic usually solitary unicellular phytoflagellates that include luminescent forms, forms important in marine food chains, and forms causing red tide
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So, was the mushrooms in a blender experiment declared a failure? Surely by now you would have had some grow if anything survived.
~ Sherri
chrislove01
New member
Yeah, how are those blendid mushrooms??
Thank you Cakepro for find the word..
Update on the mushrooms
1: The blender system : Nothing so far and today I put a very high wattage light 20/gallon on the system just for a few days untill I put two other systems next to that. There is no sign of any mushrooms in the system.
2: Food Chopper mushrooms: They are gone and turned to brown dirt
3: milke jug mushrooms: They are gone too and there were some in there at one point but days after I turned the lights on they disapeard.
4: I took a whole colony of a True Blue and put an onion bag on it and put a little pressure on the shrooms. Each shroom is in about 20 pieces and hope that I will start seing them split soon. (They are still alive and no sign of a new mouth yet, I will update you guys again) If this worked the best then I will have a drink and if it did not then I will try all of the above all over again with different steps and some other ideas..
Failure is the day that a person gives up
Ideas are always welcome
Update on the mushrooms
1: The blender system : Nothing so far and today I put a very high wattage light 20/gallon on the system just for a few days untill I put two other systems next to that. There is no sign of any mushrooms in the system.
2: Food Chopper mushrooms: They are gone and turned to brown dirt
3: milke jug mushrooms: They are gone too and there were some in there at one point but days after I turned the lights on they disapeard.
4: I took a whole colony of a True Blue and put an onion bag on it and put a little pressure on the shrooms. Each shroom is in about 20 pieces and hope that I will start seing them split soon. (They are still alive and no sign of a new mouth yet, I will update you guys again) If this worked the best then I will have a drink and if it did not then I will try all of the above all over again with different steps and some other ideas..
Failure is the day that a person gives up
Ideas are always welcome
I think the next time you try this experiment you need a bit more stability with your parameters. Put some shrooms in the tank and pick some moderate to low lighting. Put the mushrooms in there for a few days to see if they thrive in those lighting conditions, and if so... then try hacking them up. Just keep things constant, I think you made to many changes for anything that injured to adjust to. It might help. Good luck!
CleveYank
20 Years and Over
well since I had posted a reply on this earlier
I have made 17 slices of my various shrooms and all of the cuts have healed and I have 13 surviving peices adhered and growing into disks and oblong shapes heading towards the common circular shape.
Although you boldly went....I do not think you can rush this stuff or mulch it and have it grow back...stick with slow 1/4 and 1/3 cuts off of a healthy and stable mushroom and I think you will have better success...I have so far.
But hey you gave it a shot...what the heck have to give you that much.
I have made 17 slices of my various shrooms and all of the cuts have healed and I have 13 surviving peices adhered and growing into disks and oblong shapes heading towards the common circular shape.
Although you boldly went....I do not think you can rush this stuff or mulch it and have it grow back...stick with slow 1/4 and 1/3 cuts off of a healthy and stable mushroom and I think you will have better success...I have so far.
But hey you gave it a shot...what the heck have to give you that much.
Frick-n-Frags
New member
I have to sort of back up what CleveYank has said.
Maybe skip the blender technique. IMO it destroys too much animal mass and sets you waaaaay back.
All those more macro techniques minimize the trauma because only one line of cells is disrupted and the (making up a word here) biological inertia of all of the good tissue should repair or whatever the cuts much faster than majorly traumatized, much smaller pieces.(think razor cut vs road rash)
After one round, you still may be able to make certain conclusions and not needlessly waste your shroom reserve. I am still in favor of your attitude toward this experiment. These things have to be found out. So rock on.
Maybe skip the blender technique. IMO it destroys too much animal mass and sets you waaaaay back.
All those more macro techniques minimize the trauma because only one line of cells is disrupted and the (making up a word here) biological inertia of all of the good tissue should repair or whatever the cuts much faster than majorly traumatized, much smaller pieces.(think razor cut vs road rash)
After one round, you still may be able to make certain conclusions and not needlessly waste your shroom reserve. I am still in favor of your attitude toward this experiment. These things have to be found out. So rock on.
Thank you guys for all of your replies and suggestions. I have been busy lately traveling and scuba diving and have not had much chance to reply but I have been reading your replies one by one. My past experiments have failed 
and lost all of the cuts except the originals, they are back and they are the same size that the cuts were and some are even bigger since I have not cut them for a long time. I do have two more experiments that I started and I'm embarrassed to talk about it because this system amont others 5 systems are in the basement and it gets humid in the summer so I put a dehumidifier and I forgot that it puts lots of heat. I came home and saw that all systems have crashed including the mushrooms system. Big mushrooms are back and did not die but my experiment is ruined. I lost lots of corals including my main xenia propagation corals. The good thing is that I have other system upstair and others at my other place so I brought some more corals to these systems. As soon as I have this running and taken care of I will redo my experiment and will update you guys.
and lost all of the cuts except the originals, they are back and they are the same size that the cuts were and some are even bigger since I have not cut them for a long time. I do have two more experiments that I started and I'm embarrassed to talk about it because this system amont others 5 systems are in the basement and it gets humid in the summer so I put a dehumidifier and I forgot that it puts lots of heat. I came home and saw that all systems have crashed including the mushrooms system. Big mushrooms are back and did not die but my experiment is ruined. I lost lots of corals including my main xenia propagation corals. The good thing is that I have other system upstair and others at my other place so I brought some more corals to these systems. As soon as I have this running and taken care of I will redo my experiment and will update you guys.
Guy
New member
zooqi - !! Sorry to hear about your loss!! :eek1: I'm glad you had another seperate system so it wasn't a total loss.
Did you lose the Red Sea Xenia 'frag' we traded? If so let me know and I'll try to build you another one. It should only take me a couple weeks.
Do you need any of the Blue mushrooms you gave me back?
Guy
Did you lose the Red Sea Xenia 'frag' we traded? If so let me know and I'll try to build you another one. It should only take me a couple weeks.
Do you need any of the Blue mushrooms you gave me back?
Guy
Thank you guy and I think that I will be making another trip to your way soon (lol). I did have the true blue mushroom in a different system and is growing very good. That whole rock is clean and nothing on it. K needs to log some more driving hours. I just sent you an e-mail. 
