Blue Mushrooms?

[gemini9]

I'm going to order a Orange Stripe Randalls Goby and a Lawnmower Blenny from NY Aquatics and was looking at throwing in a $13 blue mushroom as well, but I was reading about them and gotten myself confused. I read that a mushroom is like a small anemone and needs to be fed. I also read that it feeds off of light and doesn't need to be fed. I also read that they can be aggressive towards other tank mates? Do they have a stinger? BUT I also read they don't bother the tank mates. :sad: Why do I keep finding different information about it?

If I order one of these, do I need to feed it? How do I attach it to a rock, or will it attach itself like other anemones? Not sure how to care for it. Everything I read says something different.....

 

[Fat Panda]

from personal experience. mushrooms dont need to be individialy fed. i have mushrooms growing in my tank that are just there. good flow and light will do a mushroom good. mushrooms do sting other corals. so be aware. place them near other mushrooms are away from other corals such as zoas and anything with long tentacles.

 

[Dalmatia]

Don't worry about the mushrooms, they are on the peaceful side and can live in poor light, some don't even like strong light. They can live by photosynthesis or can eat food, never seen one eat a fish?? But personally, I have never fed my mushrooms

 

[fungia_fiend]

The term "mushroom" covers several species. Elephant ear mushrooms will eat fish. I've never seen any outside of those prey on fish.

In general, you can feed them, but don't have to. Some won't even take food. Others will. They mostly need low-medium light and low-medium flow. Common blue mushrooms are very easy. You'll have no problem with them other than eventual overgrowth, which is a problem with many mushrooms. Just put them down on the bottom where ever you'd like.

 

[gemini9]

Ok cool. Thanks for the info. I'll probably go ahead and get one when I order my other fish. If they grow too much I'll just give them to other people who want some. I'll share!

 

[Triggreef]

Understand the problem with over growth is not the fact you have too many. It's that they are a pain to pull off a rock, & if you do get it off, just a spec of tissue will grow a new one. So you'll remove one, & a month later 3 babies are growing in its place.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I haven't found the blue mushrooms nearly as rapid to proliferate as some of the other types.

 

[gemini9]

I ordered one with my shipment to give them a try. All corals reproduce and spread don't they?