removing mushrooms?

Cutiewitbooty

Cutiewitbooty

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hello everyone, i have a tank about 400gal, that is over run with mushrooms. its on too many rocks to just remove the rock. anyone know what fish i can introduce to eat them?
thanks for any info
 
I nuke them w/kalk paste as one would do w/aiptasia when they encroach an area that I don't want them to/too close to another coral.

Like aiptasia, you might have to nuke them a few times.

JME/HTH
 
My 75 gallon tank was overrun with mushrooms. Kalk paste does not work. Kalk paste burns them but does not kill them like it does aptasia. The mushroom will grow back. And with a 400 gallon tank full of mushrooms you'll be kalking till the end of time.

My solution was to tear my tank down throw all the rocks in the tank out on the patio and replace the rocks with new ones.

As far as creatures eating them, You could try a camel shrimp, they have been known to eat coral.
 
Short of throwing out your rock, it may be possible to encourage them to release from their rocks by making the local environment unfavorable for them. Here's a couple of ideas - Try directing very high flow against them so that they are really getting buffeted. They may release with time. Or adjusting their lighting. Maybe "light's out" in the aquarium for an extended period of time? If not, how about rotating your live rock so that they are turned in towards darkness, or maybe put the most affected rocks in a bucket in the dark with nothing but a pump to circulate the water. Or how about injecting kalk into the foot instead of smearing it all of over them. If you can get the foot to release you can you can pluck them off. When they're not happy, I've seen discosomas in my tank release from the rock that they are on and roll around in search for another place to settle down.
-B
 
I was responding to another post when I had a couple of more ideas: consider taking a screwdriver and whittle out a small piece of the rock from beneath their foot. It'll remove them completely. I've seen flame used on aiptasia with great success and it may work for your problem. If you're a pyro, take a lighter to them try nuking them. If you can get the foot to release you'll be home free.
-B
 
I thought I had cut a small colony out of a spot I didn't want them. NOw I see there are 4 growing where they used to be the one big one.

I know people have done chiseling or used a dremel to be a little safer with the rock. Unfortunately I have a Monti Cap encrusted and growing right where these mushrooms are growing. I'm a little nervous to get to violent with the rock.
 
thanks for all the replies. i think i'm going to try to use a school of butterflies of some kind. there are a few stonies in there and maybe they will eat only the mushrooms. there are way too many to cheisil off or to just pull the rock. almost every rock has them.
thanks again for the sugestions.
 
So...I never really thought about it, but I have a few mushrooms on the undersides of the overhangs in my tank (ie. Not on rocks I can easily remove or prune). I am doing mostly SPS/LPS. Would it be a good idea to get rid of all my shrooms at this point so that they don't become a problem later on? Will shrooms kill/encroach on SPS or will the SPS always win the war?

-Tre
 
In reference to getting rid of mushrooms...I have had success by cutting it off as close to the rock as I can with a razor blade. Then I take a toothbrush and scrub the rock really good so that there is no part or remainder. I haven't had any come back when I have done that... Give it a try what do you have to loose?
 
I just cut out all my shrooms with a razor and covered the spots where they were attached to the rock with Epoxy. Hopefully that will do the trick.

-Tre
 
Well i got a raccoon butterfly in another tank right now with some mushrooms and i'm waiting to see what happens. The tank is WAY to big and has literally thousands of shrooms in it. It really would be impossible to manually remove them all. They probably reproduce faster than u can remove them lol Imagine a tank thats like 10' long and 3' deep with around 500-600lbs of LR and not being able to find a 5" square area without red mushrooms lol
 
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