New mushrooms w/PICS new and need some info

[Ding2daDong]

I just recently started my first reef tank, an 18gallon with 2x96 power compacts, hob refugium, powerhead, custom stand and canopy. Just recently I purchased my first rock w/ mushrooms on it. I dont know what they are called but they have a radioactive look to them here is a picture of them with a purple/blue ricordea.

I also recently purchased a florida orange w/ green mouthed ricordea that has already split into 3! I cant seem to get a good picture but here is the best one so far.

OK so thats my mushroom history so far lol it gets better, stay with me.


So just recently a friend of a friend was very generous and GAVE me a few mushrooms. So here goes.

This mushroom ( not sure what kind) is about 4inchs in diamater and is purple and green w/ purple mouth. hard to see

This one is green (as you can see) lol and really cool looking.







MY questions to all of you experts about mushrooms is;

-What kind of mushrooms are in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th pictures?

-What kind of conditions do these mushrooms like? high flor, high light, low flow?

-Should I be feeding my new mushrooms? I currently feed my other ones twice a week with phytoplankton.

Thanks to anyone that give me a helping hand. I just want my shrooms to be very happy with where they live and settle. Thanks again

-Matt

 

[kiknchikn]

1st looks like a typical discosoma to me

3rd needs a better pic with it open all the way but it looks like a Ricordea yuma to me

4th is strange... maybe a ric florida, but I've never seen one quite like that.. it almost has features of a rhodactis

Either way, the discos can survive just fine on their own (you can spot feed them plankton if you really want to I believe -- I never bother though)

The others you can (but don't have to) spot feed with small meaty foods like mysis shrimp, and/or spot feed plankton. If you do they'll grow/split quicker.

 

[saltycreefer]

The shrooms in the first pic look bleached, I would keep them out of bright light til they recover.

 

[jessp]

1 discomussa w/ a ricordia 2 a ricordia, 3 a yuma 4 rhodactus

 

[dorian965]

i believe that the last shroom is a richodia also. it looks like it may need some light and food. its mouth is wide open!
is this one new to the tank? if so, its most likely that with good lighting and a little time it will fill out again. just looks stressed to me.

 

[Tallinu]

On the first rock you have a very sweet frosted purple Ricordea Florida and some sort of Discosoma Sp variety. Perhaps even Discosoma Carlgreni. They are very bleached and may need your help. They require moderate light and low to medium water flow. Safe to stay on the low side, they tolerate medium. The Ricordea Flordia can adapt to a high light intensity and is pretty hardy but you may wish to feed the bleached Discosoma to help them through until they can obtain enough Xooxanthellae to get their colors back. Number three it may be safe to say is a nice green Ricordea Yuma with a purple body. It does not look happy in a sickly way. They do not adapt well to light intensity changes and do very poorly going from low light to high light taking a long time to adapt. Melting is a problem with high light intensity. Careful initial placement in a MH lighted tank is important. A pristine tank environment may not be ideal. They do like to eat. I feed mine once in a while with Ocean Nutrition, Formula One Marine Pellets. The small size. I drop them gently onto their disc with a turkey baester. They will stick to the surface and if the Yuma is hungry it will fold and bend in such a way as to move the pellet to it's mouth and swallow it. When they are not hungry enough they will move the pellet to the edge of their disc and let it go. I've seen them eat pods at night with a flashlight in much the same way. Ricordea Florida work in the same way and get the same food. You could try any similar food from a solution to a slight paste or small particle size, and a variety of delivery systems. Pipettes, straws, syringes, turkey baesters. Keep the scavengers away long enough for any hungry shroom to swallow it's meal and be careful not to overfeed/pollute your tank. If it's to sick or not hungry it won't eat. You can let the scavengers have the food. Number 4 is kind of difficult. I've decided on two possibilities given what characteristics I can see. It is a very annoyed mushroom but not in a sickly way. It's stressed due to perhaps some physical activity on your part; i.e. just placed in the tank or moved. Or perhaps a crab or some other invert picked on it briefly or moved across it. Currently in this picture it's expelled all it's water and shrunk it's form. A temporary condition hopefully. At first glance I thought it might be a ****ed off Yuma but closer inspection makes me wonder if it's not perhaps a Rhodactis Rhodostoma. If your shroom has opened up some you may wish look up both mushrooms and compare. If it is a Rhodostoma it's very hardy, eats very well and may become an eventual plague in your aquarium )

Tall

 

[Tallinu]

On further reflection it is possible that number 3 is not a Yuma although that seems to be the first of impression of the posters here including myself. The condition of it's mouth as well as body suggests that it might be rather sick at the moment the picture was taken. But not necessarily in such a state that it could not recover given time and love in varying degrees =). It would be nice to see some pictures taken with greater of full expansion once they adjust to your tank.

Tall

 

[Ding2daDong]

wow! Thanks for all of you replies. They all seem to be doing ok. I will get some updated pictures up. The Discosoma Sp variety of mushrooms I have in my first picture I bought as "radioactive tonga mushrooms". In the system before they were the same color and were like that for a few weeks before I bought them, so I didnt know that they are bleached are you sure of this? They have been in my tank seemingly doing fine for the past few months. The 3rd and 4th pictures are what a friend of a friend gave me out of her 210gallon system. She has MH and I have powercompacts. She didnt know what the mushrooms were called but was very nice and gave me these diff. mushrooms for free so thats why im so uninformed about them. Thanks again,

I will post some more pics tomorrow

-Matt

 

[Tallinu]

Tonga Mushrooms? My first reaction when I saw them was that they were Rhodactis Inchoata. But given the magnification and bleaching it's hard to say. But it's a given that they are bleached. Were pretty much unanimous in posting that =( I do not have good experience feeding non Ricordeas. I recommend you do some research and make an attempt to do so. Also I note that in your picture the bleached shrooms are cupped downwards like an umbrella. If I read your stats correctly you have two 96 watt bulbs on an 18 gallon tank. Thats a great amount of light. They may be having some trouble. Regular shrooms do not easily tolerate that much light. You may wish to consider splitting that rock in two and moving the bleached shrooms to the darkest area of your tank.

When a mushroom needs something it cups like a bowl, for food or light and can stretch and reach for the sky. When it's getting too much light they tend to turn upside down like an umbrella and hug low to the rock. They may slowly creep and crawl over many many days toward or away from the light.

Check closely the tentacles of the supposed radioactive ones. I can't tell from the photo but if they have Cauliflower like tentacles then it's an Inchota most likely. Which is often the case when a dealer tosses around the name Tonga with a mushroom. If the tentacles are smooth tiny berries then most likely were back to square one with some form of Discosoma Sp. Discosoma Sp. is like the garbage can of identification for regular shrooms. Same mushrooms but different colors and styles.

Tall

 

[Ding2daDong]

UPDATED PICTURES!

Here are some of the pictures of the shrooms,


This is a picture of my supposed tonga mushrooms up close, so they are bleached?

Here is MR. unidentified, anyone know what it is yet?

This is shroom from the 3rd pic w/ my tomato clown hosting it? Its about 4inchs in diamiter

 

[metalManiac]

green mr unidentified is a ricordea yuma.

 

[kiknchikn]

That last pic of the new pics is definitely a hairy mushroom (Rhodactis indosinensis I think). I have one with that exact coloration. It's always a visitor favorite.