Purpleish/Blue Mushrooms..Cant get rid of or keep them from Spreading...Please Help..

[Bsmith_SigEp]

I have dealt with these purpleish-blue mushrooms in my tank for 2 years now...I have taken stuff out of my tank and picked the mushrooms off of the rock and that helped for a while....they then grew back and after that My local fish store luckily let me trade in all of my current rock for new live rock. Here i am abuot 4 months or so later and already have a good amount of mushrooms back again?
Is there anything at all you can reccomend to me or somethign that i can do to prevent these from growing or how to get rid of these pesky mushrooms and keep them gone or slow the growth? its getting to the point where i want to give up on my reef tank b/c as soon as my corals get going good and growing the mushrooms are taking over and covering all the rock and corals just about and i def dont want to lose my tank!!

please help!!

 

[bshumake]

Treat them like aptasia. That will kill them off. Or target a few to keep them in check.

 

[Rudolph]

You traded in all of your rock and they still came back? That is a hardy stock....

Do you have a sump? Can you scrape them off again and take the rocks with the shrooms out of the tank and put them in the sump (assuming you have no light)?

If your LFS is giving you a good deal on the trade in I would go that route again and try the sump penalty zone for any new growth. Maybe not add any other new corals until you see they are not coming back (big water change too after taking the rocks out) If not, I am sure there are club members that would trade you clean rock for some shroom covered rocks....

I have shrooms in my tank for about three years and they have only increased by about 10%. I know they like the lower flow areas of my tank, but they must tollerate the higher flow areas, so maybe that keeps them in check? I upped the flow a few months ago on both sides of my tank and some have actually died off.

If I could just get a ricordea shroom to do that...lol

 

[jabo]

Where are you in the Boot heel? I live in Bernie...

 

[jabo]

What LFS are you going to up here????

 

[Bsmith_SigEp]

I live in the Caruthersville area.....and yes ive traded the live rock i recently had months ago all in for new live rock from my reef store free of charge...but it was a total hassle to do all that b/c the store is 1 hour away from my area in Cape Girardeau,mo....

It seems like no matter what i do they mushrooms grow and spread like crazy...i have plently of water flow....i have about a 30 gallon sump or so but no room to put that many rocks down there out of the light to get them to go away....and even tryin to pput them in my sump without lights to kill them off i think they would toxify the water still it seems and pump right back into my tank and reproduce it seems? i would like to have one of them aiptazers...but dont have a clue of how to make one and cant figure it out from reading the forums......any other ideas.....

also if many of you aren't on the the SLASH forum from the STL, mo....you shoudl add this....its a major forum and learn alot on there....st. lous area saltwater ?? its abbreviated SLASH....check it out....Thansk for the help....

 

[chuckasomas]

Create a kalk paste mixture (2parts kalk, 1part h2o) make sure mushrooms are in a low flow area or turn off powerheads then use a turkey baster or a syringe to cover area of growth. This will melt almost anything so be careful. After an hour or until you are satisfied that they wont come back use a turkey baster to remove excess kalk and waste.
I had a problem with some pallys that where trying to take over my tank and this method took care of it.
good luck!

 

[jabo]

Next time I go to Memphis i will grab an AIPTAZER from someone and we can us it. I need one for some clove polyps too.

 

[keaton]

There is a detailed article about this problem by Dr. Dieter Brockmann in Coral magazine Aug/Sept 2007 (see "Corallimorpharians: Curse or Blessing?") I'm cutting to the chase by including some instructions from the article for controlling them. The complete article is great though, as it explains in detail their "competitive mechanisms", "growth and reproduction potential", etc. if you can't get your hands on a copy, I can scan it and snail mail you a copy if you would like...I'm no expert by any means, but I think it helps if you know your enemy. :uzi: Just pm me please if you want it as I'm not very faithful about visiting the forum.

Another thing...maybe your "plenty of water flow" exacerbates the problem. Once grannybj told me that she thought you could encourage the propagation of ricordias by putting them in a high flow area...it causes them to try to move out of the flow and as they move they leave behind bits of tissue that grow new ones. This IS how they reproduce, but the theory is that the high flow speeds the process up. I don't know for sure but I think she might be right from my own observation. Though Rudolph seems to kill his with his flow pattern, maybe you have the perfect flow to encourage them.

Good luck.

 

[arbinghising]

hello

hello

try changing your rocks one more time than after that keep your lights higher i have led lights and i cant seem to keep mushroom coz if light intensity. Everything else is doing great. that includes brain coral candy cane zoas.

 

[SaltH2OLover]

I have quite a few mushrooms with led lights. Have an AI SOL Blue, whites @ 90% and blue&royals @ 95%.... No problems keeping mushrooms.

I'd like one of those of you still have them. Lol.