newbie question

[svynx]

Hi guys. I'm new to the mushroom forum. I've been doing a little reading on Colored Corallimorph and I can't find anything concrete on how difficult they are.
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/group/1331/product.web

That's what I'm looking at. There are a few others that I'm interested in as well, such as the Caribbean Umbrella Mushroom. I've had button polyps in the tank for about 6 months now, and I just added clove polyps a few days ago (they opened back up after a day). Both are doing well enough that I was able to frag the button last week. It started as a quarter size colony, and now it's two 3" rocks covered.

Any suggestions as to a good mushroom to start with?
Cheers

 

[smallreefdave]

Most mushrooms are fairly easy to keep. I started with various colors of Actinodiscus, such as Red, purple, green striped, and other spotted/speckled color combonations. In good water conditions and decent lighting, they will do quite well and begin multiplying pretty quickly in the tank. They also prefer a mild water flow.

In my current setups, besides the mentioned Actinodiscus I have, I have at least 100 Ricordia Florida. These span the color spectrum. I have green, purple, grey/blue, blue, and orange, and several multi colors in the mix (mostly blue though). These are pretty hardy, will actually eat small meaty foods, and can handle somewhat more lighting, but are a bit more costly, but offer great colors you can't get in other mushrooms. These do not multiply nearly as fast as the Actinodiscus.

Overall, a very easy to keep group if your tank parameters are good.

 

[smallreefdave]

One more thing. If you are close to That Pet Place, I was just there last weekend. They had some really nice, BIG, red mushroom (Actinodiscus) rocks for $99.99. There were at least 50 shrooms on each rock, maybe as many as 100. There were 3 of them when I was there. Don't know if they still had them, but they were pretty nice for that size of a rock.