Shroom question

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joker0586

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I recently acquired a single mushroom polyp from a friend. it's not attached to any rock or anything, so i was wondering what i should do about placing it somewhere in my tank. lay it on my rock? should i superglue the shroom to any rock or anything, or just lay it on top of some rock? thanks for your help

Jared
 
any or all of your answers would work

depending on your water flow, if it sits in the same spot long enough, it WILL attach, so no worries
 
they are all safe, but make sure it is the gel type or glue, as the other just runs all over and you cant control it as well
 
super glue doesn't work too well for shrooms tho. the way i do it is just leave it in the substrate for a few days, where theres not alot of flow. maybe behind a rock or something, and it'll attatch to the substrate, and then you can pick that up and glue that onto the rock, the mushroom itself is really hard to glue and i've never been able to make it work
 
You can also get some bridal veil at any fabric department and use a swatch of that to lay the mushroom on upside down, then take the bridal veil and a rubberband to attach it to a piece of liverock in your tank...after about 5-7 days the mushroom should be attached to the liverock. I have also taken a piece of clear lift tube and pushed it end-wise into my sandbed, then put the mushroom inside the tube rightside up so that it rests on the sand (or preferably, you put a couple small pieces of coral rubble or rock chunks in the tube) and the mushroom attaches to that. I have had much better luck getting mushrooms to attach to something natural such as coral rubble or rock and then supergluing the rubble or rock wherever I want to place it.
 
Safe or not, something about glueing my critters just doesn't sit right with me.
The bridal veil trick works great, or sometimes I use a strawberry/bluberry basket w/ rubble.
They usually attach in about a week or less.
 
I have several that have attached inside abandoned snail shells - it makes moving them really easy.

You can also but the tiniest plastic plant pots, put a little rubble in and stuff the mushroom in, bury the pot in your substrate, they will attach in about a week
 
tonight when i was looking at my tank i found what i think to be a slug if anyone know how i can tell if it is a good or bad slug please let me know so that i can get rig of it
 
so they don't like flow? I just got a green striped mushroom that is 3" in diameter. I put it on my sandbed on the side where my return pumps water back into the tank. Its not directly on it but its definately a higher flow area.
 
Shrooms...can really live in any sort of condition (with the exception of yumas/ricords), I have a 12 gallon nano, that I am just letting go for the time being...slainty is at like .36, HA everywhere lights are only 30watts... I have set other rocks on top of them and they figured it out...It is hard to kill shrooms.

Glueing them is easy and perfectly safe...flip it up side down and where the "foot" or the stem of the shroom is, find the bottom of that add some super glue them flip it over put it on a piece of rock apply some pressure and hold it for a few and you are done set it in the tank and call it good.
 
put some crushed coral or bits of LR in a small bowl and put the shroom on top of it all while in the tank. It'll attach itself in a few days to a piece - where you can then move it where you like. The bowl helps deflect some of the water flow from directly hitting the shrooms. A small disposable plastic container works well IME...
 
umm... shrooms can be problematic.... They can grow to plage proportions, and can harm sps corals. Someone mentioned green striped.......
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I grew this lovely purple with green polp acro from one polp. Now the shrooms have killed half the colony, and continue to over take my entire tank..:(

Do be carefull when you stock your tank.:reading:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8034067#post8034067 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by joker0586
tonight when i was looking at my tank i found what i think to be a slug if anyone know how i can tell if it is a good or bad slug please let me know so that i can get rig of it
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Try Googling Stomatella snail -- most times when people find something slug-like in their tank it's one of these harmless little grazers.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8040392#post8040392 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by antonsemrad
umm... shrooms can be problematic.... They can grow to plage proportions, and can harm sps corals. Someone mentioned green striped.......
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I grew this lovely purple with green polp acro from one polp. Now the shrooms have killed half the colony, and continue to over take my entire tank..:(

Do be carefull when you stock your tank.:reading:
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You can always prune them back and frag them when they overgrow. This is all part of tank maintence. And you can even get new corals by trading or selling your shrooms you got rid of. Dont just watch your shrooms get closer to your prized acro, cut them off and move them or sell them. Im not trying to be mean, just sounds like you watched the shrooms overgrow the acro over the months not doing anything.
 
Kurt03, True, true, and true again.....
However, in my tank... I will NEVER be rid of these things, (short of killing the whole reef) and cut away all you want, they just grow back. They can tolerate a direct blast from a tunze stream, direct/intense light from a DE 250 watt 10k MH bulb, lime water injections, boiling water injections, vinegar injections,ect,ect.

Perhaps I was/am a bit lazy, and others would have more success in keeping this coral in check.

But IMHO perhaps their are other choices that are a bit less problematic...
 
wow i had no idea they could live through limewater injection and stuff. Even a kalk paste wont kill it? I only have one right now but i will keep an eye on it for sure.
 
I use bridal veil for mushrooms. They are attached in 5 - 6 days, at the most, usually in 4 days I can uncover them. Glueing didn't work for me, too slimy.
 
wow i had no idea they could live through limewater injection and stuff. Even a kalk paste wont kill it?
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Yep, The very shrooms that you see have been injected, multilpe times. The kalk paste even bleached the acro.....

You can't cut them out.... They shrivel to nothing... you have to chip away rock to get them off....

Trust me folks.... If you have this coral, take a blow torch to it....

Get rid of it...

MHO ANT
 
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