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Is there such a thing as a mushroom that closes up like an anemone at the time it eats? Does anyone know, do mushrooms do that?
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7662275#post7662275 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by OrangeKoi
Is there such a thing as a mushroom that closes up like an anemone at the time it eats? Does anyone know, do mushrooms do that?
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Elephant ears will and are able to eat quite a large meal.
 
Here is a great picture I took a few years ago of my fuzzy shrooms closed up on mysis shrimp.
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I have never had them eat a fish.
The ones in the pictures are around 3 inches across and only eat mysis or what they can catch free floating.
 
Ive fed huge lime green ricordeas silversides.

All shrooms eat like that when you throw some pytho, or Reef Roids. Youll get them multyplying faster.

Ive had shrooms thrive in my fuge with a 50w 6500k floodlight from Home Depot.

A mushroom doesnt have any sticky vercue like anemones. The fish will have to be sick or near death and just happedn to land on the mushroom for that to happe 55semireef.

Sam
 
Very nice pictures Finding Nemo.
Excellent story about the cup mushroom. Thanks very much.

I didn't think of taking pictures and I would like it if my mushrooms would multiply.

If this should be in the mushroom section sorry. I just get so confused by these critters behavior. They act like anemones.

Please feel free to move it ok?
 
I used to keep three large Amplexidiscus fenestrafer, until they kept eating my clownfish. They were large enough that the clowns would get confused, and if the clowns tried to sleep in them overnight, the clowns weren't there in the morning (except scales and bones). I lost 3 or 4 clowns this way, and finally after "rescuing" a clown that was almost dead, I gave the shrooms back to the LFS. They do not catch fish like normal anemones - for all I know they don't sting. Rather, they slowly close up like a change purse with a draw string. The fish doesn't even know it's caught until it finds itself inside of a little ball.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7743065#post7743065 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BonsaiNut
They do not catch fish like normal anemones - for all I know they don't sting. Rather, they slowly close up like a change purse with a draw string. The fish doesn't even know it's caught until it finds itself inside of a little ball.
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Hmmm...I am pretty sure its more than that.

The cup mushroom sends out a violent stinging, so he immobilizes the fish from moving away. According to my sources, the Cup sends out this violent shock and the fish can move, and he then begins to close up around him. After closing up on him he then begins to send out the toxins that finishes the fish off. After the initial shock, it is too late. That itself is too much for the fish to recover from supposedly. My guy said it is like a human being shot with 50 tazers at once. I have tried to hand feed the cup before and he is way slow, but i believe i am gonna have to start trying harder.
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