never seen a mushroom do this

[nano reefer]

this is a neon green stripped mushroom :eek2:

 

[shroutk3]

Mine will usually ball up around something when they are eating a piece of frozen. I've never seen the mouth like that though. I think that's the mouth showing through in the pic anyways..

Was this after you fed the tank?

 

[nano reefer]

no its a newer tank and this is the first mushroom in there i put him in there this morning i acclimated him right and everything he was doing fine then i looked a minute ago and saw that...

 

[shroutk3]

In that case I would guess stress induced. Give it time, and I'm sure it'll be flattened out and happy- even through a nuclear winter

 

[byeung]

whoa that is freaky

 

[ohchiz84]

no its a newer tank and this is the first mushroom in there i put him in there this morning i acclimated him right and everything he was doing fine then i looked a minute ago and saw that...

happebed to me too, my tank was avout 2 months old, my params were decent, but it ended up melting over the course of 2-3 days. i thought they were hard to kill mine was shipped through the cold so i dont know if that maybe messed it up

 

[Desertdweller]

they do that every once in a while nothing out of the ordinary, I personally wish I had never added mushrooms too my tank / I hate them and they are impossible to get rid off so if it dies you're actually better off.

 

[nano reefer]

he is fine now but i love mushrooms exspecially when you have bright contrasting colors next to one another

 

[AJSTITAN14]

That's a rhodactis. Know that these things eat fish. The way it is closed is called "purse string" because the outer edge contracts like that. There are stinging cells along the edges of these animals and when they close around a fish they sting him when he tries to get out and so he ends up trapped and gets digested slowly over 1000 years....

We got a Maroon Clown over the weekend and he decided to try setting up his home in my 12 inch rhodactis. I watched that monster shroom try to eat him twice and decided that if the clown was to survive the night I needed to frag the big ones. Doing this had been in the back of my mind for a few weeks anyway.