Can all types of mushrooms touch each other?

[fishski13]

Cant find much information on this, so want to see if anyone has experience with this. Can different mushroom types touch? Like discosoma with ricordea with rhodactis, etc. Over the last few months I have gotten into mushrooms and want to start getting more just want to know which ones can be placed together.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I love this question and HATE the answer as you probably will.

The real answer is: It Depends ...

Why that's the answer is the annoying part. It's hard to be consistent..

I do and have housed multiple types of mushrooms together. Touching. Laying over each other..

Most of the time for me, there is no issue. There are some mushrooms that will melt their neighbors. Some eat them. Some will walk away.

@LRT

drop some knowledge bro.

 

[fishski13]

I love this question and HATE the answer as you probably will.

The real answer is: It Depends ...

Why that's the answer is the annoying part. It's hard to be consistent..

I do and have housed multiple types of mushrooms together. Touching. Laying over each other..

Most of the time for me, there is no issue. There are some mushrooms that will melt their neighbors. Some eat them. Some will walk away.

@LRT

drop some knowledge bro.

Sounds like what i kind of expected.

Will definitely need to play around with it. Whats a good way to tell when mushrooms arent compatible with one another if I do place them close together? Just common signs like other types of corals?

 

[liddojunior]

I’ve had green hairy mushroom and other rhodactis sting and kill each other.
And I have Ricordia and disco happily being neighbors

 

[Cthulukelele]

IME it isn't 100% but larger rhodactis mushrooms seem a bit more likely to be more aggressive with their neighboring mushrooms.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Sounds like what i kind of expected.

Will definitely need to play around with it. Whats a good way to tell when mushrooms arent compatible with one another if I do place them close together? Just common signs like other types of corals?

My general rule of thumb is eclectus and hairy anything stay away from all dissimilar mushrooms.

I'll allow any discos to touch each other. They will tell you they don't like it by curling the part that is touching away from the other mushroom. They are more likely to run, than fight and you usually have time to intervene if something is amiss.

Ricordea have never given me any in issues as the aggressor. Watch for aggression from others.

Rhodis I'm always cautious with. I've had more shrooms (and other coral in general) melted by these. Give them room and move closer together, slowly. If the "fingers" at the end of their skirt are inflating and elongating toward another mushroom, that's AT&T and not trying to be friends. If they lay their skirt over another mushroom, that other mushroom may be in trouble.

 

[fishski13]

My general rule of thumb is eclectus and hairy anything stay away from all dissimilar mushrooms.

I'll allow any discos to touch each other. They will tell you they don't like it by curling the part that is touching away from the other mushroom. They are more likely to run, than fight and you usually have time to intervene if something is amiss.

Ricordea have never given me any in issues as the aggressor. Watch for aggression from others.

Rhodis I'm always cautious with. I've had more shrooms (and other coral in general) melted by these. Give them room and move closer together, slowly. If the "fingers" at the end of their skirt are inflating and elongating toward another mushroom, that's AT&T and not trying to be friends. If they lay their skirt over another mushroom, that other mushroom may be in trouble.

ok cool thanks for the advice

 

[Cthulukelele]

My general rule of thumb is eclectus and hairy anything stay away from all dissimilar mushrooms.

I'll allow any discos to touch each other. They will tell you they don't like it by curling the part that is touching away from the other mushroom. They are more likely to run, than fight and you usually have time to intervene if something is amiss.

Ricordea have never given me any in issues as the aggressor. Watch for aggression from others.

Rhodis I'm always cautious with. I've had more shrooms (and other coral in general) melted by these. Give them room and move closer together, slowly. If the "fingers" at the end of their skirt are inflating and elongating toward another mushroom, that's AT&T and not trying to be friends. If they lay their skirt over another mushroom, that other mushroom may be in trouble.

Also kind of an aside but related if you get any of the commonly marketed green hairy mushrooms put them off on their own for the reasons stated here but also because one becomes 30-40 in very short order in optimal conditions

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Also kind of an aside but related if you get any of the commonly marketed green hairy mushrooms put them off on their own for the reasons stated here but also because one becomes 30-40 in very short order in optimal conditions

I prefer my Green BUMPY ones!

 

[fishski13]

I prefer my Green BUMPY ones!

hows that blue throat trigger been with your inverts?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

hows that blue throat trigger been with your inverts?

Neither the male or female blue throat have any idea that inverts could be food.

The male will visit the cleaner shrimp from time to time.

 

[fishski13]

Neither the male or female blue throat have any idea that inverts could be food.

The male will visit the cleaner shrimp from time to time.

ok cool, really want a blue throat in my tank but also want to keep the cleaner shrimp I already have

 

[TbSaysNo]

i have a hairy green mushroom super close to my ricordea. how would i go about removing the mushroom? (hairy)