Mushroom Massacre

akabryanhall · Feb 24, 2011

I would like very much to lay waste to my mushrooms, all of them must die, what is the best way to do this?

slice · Feb 24, 2011

Joe's Juice?

akabryanhall · Feb 24, 2011

Word? Didn't even think of that. Anyone heard of this technique? Seems to make sense, works on aptaisia

Kathleen · Feb 24, 2011

Why don't you frag and sell them? Or trade them to LFS for live rock with nothing on them?

skinz78 · Feb 24, 2011

I am going to buy one of the Aptasia Zappers from Luke and try it on mine...

tangboy · Feb 24, 2011

Quick question, why are you wanting to get rid of your shrooms? Why not just slice them off, sell the frags, and if they come back, keep getting frags to sell to people

skinz78 · Feb 24, 2011

Because they take over the tank if you don't keep on them.

fsu1dolfan · Feb 24, 2011

skinz78 said:
I am going to buy one of the Aptasia Zappers from Luke and try it on mine...

Same here skinz...i cant wait until he gets them really to ship. Hoping it will be a staple in tiding up the tank with overgrown problem corals as well as aiptasias!

BTW i thought his name was Paul?

akabryanhall · Feb 24, 2011

Kathleen said:
Why don't you frag and sell them? Or trade them to LFS for live rock with nothing on them?

They are all on rocks that cannot be removed from my tank, one is supporting two other rocks and th eother has my anemone on it

Troylee · Feb 24, 2011

skinz78 said:
Because they take over the tank if you don't keep on them.

i wish i could say the same for my shroom.... i only have one well 2 now a baby just sprouted.. i have a hard time getting them to take over.... wander if it's the name??? "jawbreaker" ahahahahah lol

skinz78 · Feb 24, 2011

fsu1dolfan said:
BTW i thought his name was Paul?

Luke33 at SWC Skimmer has them made by SWC now.

akabryanhall · Feb 24, 2011

Lol I could deal with a jawbreaker takeover, not a red kills my prized blasto colony take over

fenderguy1 · Feb 24, 2011

I bet a frag of Hydnophora would take them out

soccerbag · Feb 24, 2011

fenderguy1 said:
I bet a frag of Hydnophora would take them out

Pretty good! I bet your right fender. It takes out everything else....may be worth a try. lol

Bubbles_B · Feb 24, 2011

As far as getting rid of them...hmmm maybe take a blade to them. Although I have had a mishap when I tried to get rid of Aptasia and Joe's juice got on my zoa and mushroom frag and killed them off. Except fot the fact that the shroom somehow sprouted little babies months after on the same plug.

I have learned from this that making sure to leave them on a rock away from other rock work helps. Glad to know now than to have never known. Good luck bro!

clowns101 · Feb 24, 2011

Kathleen said:
Why don't you frag and sell them? Or trade them to LFS for live rock with nothing on them?

Kathleen-Mushrooms have very little value,and they honestly dont provide much for reef tanks any longer,there are much cooler corals out there.Missouri doesnt have NEAR the collection that other places do,it sucks,but is true.

Paul_N · Feb 24, 2011

I have green hairy mushrooms that I am getting rid of. I find hypodermic needle and kalk paste work the best. You just have to keep injecting them until they shrink into nothingness. These climb on my hydnophora and it doesn't even phase them.

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BlazinNano · Feb 24, 2011

Bryan get whole of terry and see if you can try the aptasia zapper on them. It might work. Tell him it is research and development. He might go for it.

swannyson7 · Feb 24, 2011

I've got one of the aptaisia zappers from Paul and it does work on mushrooms to an extent. You have to hit them a bunch of times, but it will eventually kill them off. It doesn't work that great on anthelia or GSP, but if you remove as much as possible manually and then zap the few polyps that show up for maintenance, it works pretty well.