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Hopefully this is correct forum. So is there a way to remove a mushroom safely from a rock, frag rack or glass? I have some red shrooms with white specks that are all over a rock, a frag rack & my rear wall & want to remove some. I also have 2 magic carpet shrooms on a rock & would like to remove one of those as well. Can they be peeled off? Or do you need to break the rock apart?
 
Ok, I have to ask, why did he cut the shroom, if he was just going to chip it off?
I'd like to know this two, I assume to get them to split or something., but I was looking for how to get the out of my tank and into someone else's without removing all my live rock.
 
Use edge of a credit card
 
Can you peel them off like you do a nem?
Im going to try blasting them with a powerhead in a bit here.

I was hoping someone would say yeah blasting them worked for me or a small squirt of kalk was just enough to agitate them and get them to dislodge without actually killing it.
 
Just saw posts about video I linked. The video is about fragging and demonstrates one way to "assist" the process of fission/pedal laceration by cutting mushroom in half while it is in the tank which is meant to multiply the number of established mushrooms as I do it. Sometimes it is easier to cut them into quarters while they are attached to rockwork.

To remove them from a particular area, I have found it necessary like video shows to chip off part of rock underneath the mushroom and have also had some luck removing part of mushroom using plastic tweezers and now will try edge of credit card as vetteguy suggests. I've also read that any strategy which makes the mushroom want to release its grip and move (e.g. kalk paste, increasing flow, increasing light) has been useful at times.

From my experience I think the type of rock the mushroom is on plays a role in how easy it is to remove and, of course, since mushrooms can withstand rough treatment I don't expect to remove it without cutting, tearing, etc., some of its flesh, all with the expectation that it will regenerate quickly.

Good luck and a good reason not to place mushrooms on rock which can't be removed from the tank, lol.
 
I once removed 200 red mushrooms over taking my nano in a thread at nano-reef.com and it is using the method Mike mentioned, taking a chip of surface with the pedal tissue. its one pass removal

glass-scrape off with razor

five or so years later not one exists.
for removing aiptasia, not a single other option works better but its ironic in all aiptasia threads the claim is easily disconsidered yet they're totally invaded. everyone says this method fragments the anemones, it clearly doesn't.


my rock scrape areas were corallined again in three months.

there is messing around with removing anemones we dont want, and then theres not messing around. rasped removal is an obliteration technique they use in human medicine polyp removal because its so thorough and the spot heals up in time

*i wasnt removing to preserve them, only goal was no growback.

one time in 2012 ish an aiptasia hitched in some how and landed on my rockwork, guess what happened then
 
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for removing aiptasia, not a single other option works better but its ironic in all aiptasia threads the claim is easily disconsidered yet they're totally invaded. everyone says this method fragments the anemones, it clearly doesn't.

I got out of the hobby for the last year for the exact same reason, aptasia EVERYWHERE! My solution was to pull the plug on the lights for months on end. All the desirable coral was already dead from being stung (and dinos). Fish did great during that time while I kept them feed and tried to refuel my passion for a reef. Aptasia and dinos all got wiped out, but guess what didn't? mushrooms...

Thanks for your help all and sorry for jumping in on your thread @BantyRooster97 , this one was something I wanted to figure out as well.
 

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