Getting mushrooms to attach to rubble, proving difficult.

Jakepen · Sep 7, 2016

So I have some plain mushrooms, I'm trying to get to grab onto some rubble. I put them in small plastic containers, with plenty of holes, and some small pieces of rock. They have been in there almost a week now, and still haven't grabbed. Am I doing something wrong?

mcmunn93 · Sep 7, 2016

Glue them

r.bergonia19 · Sep 7, 2016

mcmunn93 said:
Glue them

If u glue them it will not work. The mushroom is gonna produce slime to get out of the glue.

Jakepen · Sep 7, 2016

Yeah I've heard that almost never works. So is the way I'm doing it best? I feel like they should have grabbed after a week.

tomtom2245 · Sep 7, 2016

Sometimes placing a small piece of rubble on top of them will apply enough pressure to get them to stick. I have not had luck with the glue either. Now if there is a small piece of rubble attached to the foot, you can glue that onto something.

afamousjohnson · Sep 7, 2016

A cool way is to take 2 small pieces of rubble and put a rubber band around the 2 holding them together like a cloths pin. Than simply put the mushroom in the middle holding like said pin
You can put a small part of the shroom/foot squeezed between the 2 to hold it in place until it grabs. You will also have a frag after it grows onto both rocks

Jahalu · Sep 7, 2016

Tagging along- having same difficulty.

cromag27 · Sep 7, 2016

Back in the day I would use a needle and thread! are they blowing around in a current?

r.bergonia19 · Sep 7, 2016

Jakepen said:
Yeah I've heard that almost never works. So is the way I'm doing it best? I feel like they should have grabbed after a week.

Try to get a bigger container and put gravel all over the bottoms of it and put the mushroom in there and also give it good lighting.

Jakepen · Sep 8, 2016

afamousjohnson said:
A cool way is to take 2 small pieces of rubble and put a rubber band around the 2 holding them together like a cloths pin. Than simply put the mushroom in the middle holding like said pin
You can put a small part of the shroom/foot squeezed between the 2 to hold it in place until it grabs. You will also have a frag after it grows onto both rocks

Wouldn't that smush the mushroom?

afamousjohnson · Sep 8, 2016

Jakepen said:
Wouldn't that smush the mushroom?

Just enough to hold it in place. I've done it quite a few times with no ill effect. Pretty effective way. I have never really had luck with the container plus don't like having a cup sitting in my tank - eye sore.

najer · Sep 8, 2016

I would put the tubs in a high flow spot.

enzo · Sep 8, 2016

I have the same problem, I've put them in the same cups with sand and lots of gravel from low light to high light no flow to med. flow and still the same problem. I've stuck them in deep holes and found them days later rolling around like tumble weed. Now I figured to just let them go until they find there own place and settle.

Reefing4eva · Sep 8, 2016

I have these mushrooms all in a small plastic cup that has holes drilled all around it to allow flow thru it then it is clipped to the top of my overflow.they been in there for so long that there are well over 2 dozen babies in there ..lol.
One of these days I'll find the time to take them all out..been in my tank so long the outside of the cup is completely covered in coraline algae

WilRams · Sep 8, 2016

Patience. It's taken weeks for me before.

Jakepen · Sep 9, 2016

afamousjohnson said:
Just enough to hold it in place. I've done it quite a few times with no ill effect. Pretty effective way. I have never really had luck with the container plus don't like having a cup sitting in my tank - eye sore.

Well maybe I had to much pressure, but the mushroom died. Pretty quickly, found my cleaner eating it...