need to kill them

[ReefMoto]

i have a mushrooms take over going on, they are literally killing my bi color hammer, and killing some sps. what do i do to kill them? so they dont come back with out pulling out my whole live rock setup

 

[Biocubehqi]

Enject aptasia x in the mouth... Worked for me

 

[homegrowncichli]

take baking soda, put a half a cup in a steel pot and cook on stove top until the baking soda boils and moves like water. Now you have soda ash, which has a pH of 10 when disolved in solution, vs pH of 8 if you use baking soda. Dissolve some soda ash into water, measure the pH and once it's 10, fill a syringe with 5 mL of this and inject a little into each mushroom. The mushroom will shrink and die off, but its possible little pieces of it will grow back, so once you inject it, wait a few minutes and you can pull the whole mushroom off the rock with tweezers. It will come off easily.

OH, very important, turn off the pumps when you do this otherwise the high pH water will spray around the tank. Not that it will kill anything, since it's neutralized instantly by the seawater, but it will blow the water off the target. I also kill palyzoas and trim back encrusting SPS by this method.

 

[roenicknewf]

Wish i had this problem ,i can't seem to ever get any to spread !

 

[smkkib]

What is nitrate level in your tank mate?

 

[ReefMoto]

Nitrates are at about 5ppm , thanks for the tips gonna try the sodium bicarb trick. just cut a ton out and gave them away. if ur in san diego pm me and ill give u some

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

Don't kill, frag and sell! Then buy more corals you like. Simple!

 

[UTCReefer]

You can just dremmel under them an pop them off with a little bit of rock at the base, then trade them or take them to the LFS.

 

[ReefMoto]

lol i honestly suck off the loose ones, and throw those in my sump, sold off a couple big rocks covered in them