Can a mushroom kill frogspawn?

[Scottayy]

If you'll see here in the left side of this picture from a week ago this bottom head of frogspawn and green mushroom ended up touching. The bottom head of the frogspawn wasn't doing so good, so I moved it. The head is dead now, just skeleton.

This is really the first negative thing I've had happen in 5 months of reef keeping. It's been surprisingly smooth, so I'll take this loss.

Just curious about it. I thought mushrooms were peaceful.

 

[mjleffler]

I have green mushrooms that looks just like yours and they’ve killed quite off multiple heads of duncans that get too close to them. I’ve resorted to using x-aiptasia on the mushrooms as they reproduce pretty quickly and I’d rather have healthy duncans.

 

[Scottayy]

I have green mushrooms that looks just like yours and they’ve killed quite off multiple heads of duncans that get too close to them. I’ve resorted to using x-aiptasia on the mushrooms as they reproduce pretty quickly and I’d rather have healthy duncans.

That's good to know!!
I won't be going that route. At the moment, the mushroom garden is my favorite part of the tank.

But now I'll know to keep things far away from them.

 

[vetteguy53081]

If you'll see here in the left side of this picture from a week ago this bottom head of frogspawn and green mushroom ended up touching. The bottom head of the frogspawn wasn't doing so good, so I moved it. The head is dead now, just skeleton.

This is really the first negative thing I've had happen in 5 months of reef keeping. It's been surprisingly smooth, so I'll take this loss.

Just curious about it. I thought mushrooms were peaceful.

Yes, as some release toxins called terpenes that weaken their neightboring coral cells. Simple isolate the shroom further from other coral. Leathers can do this also.
Reason I run chemipure Blue which removes many of these toxins

 

[Scottayy]

Yes, as some release toxins called terpenes that weaken their neightboring coral cells. Simple isolate the shroom further from other coral. Leathers can do this also.
Reason I run chemipure Blue which removes many of these toxins

I've got some carbon I can throw in.

 

[Lavey29]

Yes, as some release toxins called terpenes that weaken their neightboring coral cells. Simple isolate the shroom further from other coral. Leathers can do this also.
Reason I run chemipure Blue which removes many of these toxins

Interesting, I thought I saw sweepers off mine didn't know they release terpenes.

 

[fish farmer]

I have green striped and red discoma mushrooms. Very invasive ime. I tried to get hammer frag to take over a spot, mushrooms covered and killed it.

 

[Scottayy]

Crazy. I really would've expected it to be the other way around.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I was surprised when I found out how aggressive discosomas are! There are some "who will win" threads that show the interaction between different corals, and discos are pretty fierce.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Here's one of the threads I referenced...

Who wins & who loses? Coral Warfare

I think this would be a good thread to start to see what coral will kill what coral, when they are touching. Who wins & looses? It helped me a great deal for placement of corals. I have found: -Mushrooms & brains are the worst to have anything near it . -The other day, I had a wellsophyllia...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Scottayy]

I was surprised when I found out how aggressive discosomas are! There are some "who will win" threads that show the interaction between different corals, and discos are pretty fierce.

Dang. I really had no idea. A local reefer was getting rid of everything and I said that's pretty, I'll take it. Should've done my research.

 

[Scottayy]

I was surprised when I found out how aggressive discosomas are! There are some "who will win" threads that show the interaction between different corals, and discos are pretty fierce.

Obviously they can touch other mushrooms, right? They touch my red discosomas and watermelon mushrooms. So far no ill effects.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Dang. I really had no idea. A local reefer was getting rid of everything and I said that's pretty, I'll take it. Should've done my research.

It really can depend on a lot of factors; what other corals are in the tank, direction of flow, etc. I have a lot of colonies of discos in my 90 gallon and generally they don't bother anything, but I make sure nothing except other shrooms are close enough to touch them.

I also have galaxea, another aggressive coral, and I have it placed near a wave maker that blows the tentacles away from the candycanes that are right next to it.

 

[fish farmer]

Dang. I really had no idea. A local reefer was getting rid of everything and I said that's pretty, I'll take it. Should've done my research.

I used to be THAT guy, give me some of those red mushrooms....are you sure????

Here's a relatively current pic of my tank. I've actually tossed a couple of the shroom rocks that were on the bottom recently. This is ten years growth from maybe a couple of red and green striped mushrooms. They dominate the right rock on both sides, I have recently added part of my frammer colony to the top for the time being. I've noticed that the red mushrooms are starting to dominate over the green ones. The rock was mostly green mushrooms a few years ago. The greens tend to bud off and float/roll around anywhere. They pop up in spots on the left side which I hit with Franks F-Aiptasia or vinegar. Nepthia and colt coral seem to grow fine among them. Many years ago I tried to get a bumpy variety to grow so I could have several different types together. The green striped mushrooms overtook the rock they were on and killed them. I notice one thing I DON'T have among the shrooms....aipatsia. I have plenty on the left side of my tank but none on the shroom rock.