Green shag carpet!
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GatorScott
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Same here send me one!
stevo01
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I know that place! I drive through there on my way home to visit family. Im from waterville ME
and just happen to live in lebanon nh haha!
Susan Bates
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can you just cut them back or will this cause a problem in the tank??
A Toadstool Leather
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Im fairly sure the entire mushroom needs to be removed. Mushrooms reproduce via pedal laceration in which they move along and leave bits of their "foot" to form new mushrooms.
MicroPico
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That is the exact look I'm going for in my clown tank, but my hairy has only split once in a year and that was by accident when the frag he was half on, fell & tore his disc. This is truly a "One man's trash is another man's treasure", situation. You'd probably make a heck of alot of $$ by selling what you cut. I personally wouldn't kill them in the tank. That's alot of dying waste to process.
MicroPico
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A possible solution could be to remove the rock to a quarantine tank. Turn it upside down & lean it against one side of the tank (don't put it face down on the gravel). Put a light at the other end of the tank & see if they "walk" (move) toward the light. Put some rubble next to their feet so they move off your 'keeper' rock. I've "walked" aiptasia right off rock, this way too. That's what my hairy was doing (in my previous post) when his frag got off balance, fell & tore him. This does take awhile, depending on how motivated the hairy being walked is. I just make them uncomfortable enough to want to relocate. I place frags, rock or rubble all around them & crowd them in so tight that they say, "Heck with this, I'm outta here". lol. Try it. You might find it's the best removal method because they are the ones that are removing themselves. Again I say though, it does take time, depending on how fast they move. This is just how I do it and I've 'walked' many things...aiptasia, shrooms, anemones.
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MicroPico
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Holy cow! Dat's alotta shag. Perfect for a 29 with just a couple clowns but I certainly see too much of a good thing with it being in a misc DT. Not much room for anything else. You do have hundreds of $$ in hairy's though, if you wanted to spend the time removing & selling them. Too bad I'm too far to come & give you a hand with their removal. Corals like these which have a tendency to take over a tank, are better off on their own island surrounded by rubble that the excess growth can move to, which leads to easy removal for sale or trade. I'm all for tanks which help pay their own way.
