How to bounce a Rhodactis?

Ben Weaver · Jul 22, 2017

Hey everyone. I hope clicked on this to give not to get amswers lol because i have none to give! Just questions

So i have this nice colonie of superman rhodactis. I love them!

The question is, i found this tiny baby that i saw was different. He was on the same rock but I saw that he had tiny bubbles on it. So i broke him off so i could keep better track of him. At first he was a very bland redish color like the bottom side of the superman shrooms. But i moved him into some higher lighting and he started to get some colors.
So what do you think? Is this a rhodactis that bounced? Or a totally different shroom that somehow got on this rock?
This is in whites and blues

This is just blues

Ben Weaver · Jul 22, 2017

Anybody have any opinions?

chris3del · Jul 22, 2017

Ben Weaver said:
Anybody have any opinions?

They bounce under heavy blue lighting

Fishninja · Jul 23, 2017

Never knew you could make bounce mushrooms. So all a bounce mushroom is, is a normal shroom that people sell for hundreds???

3mm3 · Jul 23, 2017

Fishninja said:
Never knew you could make bounce mushrooms. So all a bounce mushroom is, is a normal shroom that people sell for hundreds???

Basically, it was a morph from led lighting. (Blue lighting). There was an article on it somewhere

Ben Weaver · Jul 23, 2017

chris3del said:
They bounce under heavy blue lighting

Yeah, thats possible but not consistently.
There has to be some other influencers.

brownsalt92 · Jul 23, 2017

The "bounce" is equivalent to cancer. I have bounce shrooms love them! A fish store owner was talking to me about them one day and said it's like how we get tumers from cancer that's the mushrooms form of cancer...

Ben Weaver · Jul 23, 2017

So the questions is, do you think this is even the same kind of mushroom? If so why have none of the others done the same under the exact same conditions?

Donovan Joannes · Jul 24, 2017

Intensify your light (possibly more on warmer spectrum as well) and it will "bounce", rhods & yuma do responses to extra light at very odd way.

P/S: Do this on your own risk

terri_ann · Jul 25, 2017

Probably all rhods will bounce at some point. Usually they have a higher chance of getting bubbles/bouncing the older they become. It's very true that they will bounce under heavy blue spectrum, a lot of them. Although there is not a "proven" methodology to making shrooms bounce, many are having success. They will not share their success for probably a few reasons. Many yuma's bounce also. I have a green and yellow coral that is bouncing and it is Not a mushroom. There are many factors which may come in to play with shrooms bouncing besides lighting such as flow. If someone does know scientifically/proven and repeatedly in tests, they aren't sharing. It is not well known or at least spoken about but other corals can/will bounce also. I am by no means an expert but I am the OG owner of the Ms Bubbalicious (avatar when she was young) . We think (through tracing her lineage) she was the first bounce shroom to be imported in to the US. Good questions and I hope this helps!!

Donovan Joannes · Jul 25, 2017

Yuma under full spectrum...

terri_ann · Jul 25, 2017

Ben Weaver said:
So the questions is, do you think this is even the same kind of mushroom? If so why have none of the others done the same under the exact same conditions?

Probably.

Ben Weaver · Jul 25, 2017

terri_ann said:
Probably all rhods will bounce at some point. Usually they have a higher chance of getting bubbles/bouncing the older they become. It's very true that they will bounce under heavy blue spectrum, a lot of them. Although there is not a "proven" methodology to making shrooms bounce, many are having success. They will not share their success for probably a few reasons. Many yuma's bounce also. I have a green and yellow coral that is bouncing and it is Not a mushroom. There are many factors which may come in to play with shrooms bouncing besides lighting such as flow. If someone does know scientifically/proven and repeatedly in tests, they aren't sharing. It is not well known or at least spoken about but other corals can/will bounce also. I am by no means an expert but I am the OG owner of the Ms Bubbalicious (avatar when she was young) . We think (through tracing her lineage) she was the first bounce shroom to be imported in to the US. Good questions and I hope this helps!!

Wow for some reason i totally missed this post! Thank you for the info! I agree that it seems that there is no solid info on this for a reason!
Do you think low alkalinity could be a factor?
Thanks for your answer!

edosan · Jul 25, 2017

brownsalt92 said:
The "bounce" is equivalent to cancer. I have bounce shrooms love them! A fish store owner was talking to me about them one day and said it's like how we get tumers from cancer that's the mushrooms form of cancer...

More like a benign tumor, cancer usually kill the host, not the case.
Love bouce shrooms too!

brownsalt92 · Jul 25, 2017

edosan said:
More like a benign tumor, cancer usually kill the host, not the case.
Love bouce shrooms too!

Thanks

VelasCorals · Jul 25, 2017

Just a total guess but I would think they bounce under heavy blue because they are trying to increase their surface area to increase zooxanthellae production.

Going to experiment with this tonight to see if can create some tumor bubbles. LOL

terri_ann · Jul 25, 2017

Ben Weaver said:
Wow for some reason i totally missed this post! Thank you for the info! I agree that it seems that there is no solid info on this for a reason!
Do you think low alkalinity could be a factor?
Thanks for your answer!

I doubt it as alk is pretty good in the ocean. Lol Have seen bounces come in from there often
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Fercho · Jul 25, 2017

This is interesting

Donovan Joannes · Jul 25, 2017

I have "non bouncing" rhods doing exactly the same thing like my "bubbling" yuma

Duraticate · Jul 26, 2017

My yumas bounced after i dealt with a high alk spike. Like 23 high. I am trying to work my way to bouncing them again since thw bounce effect went away