Mushroom vs rock nem

[pseudorand]

In the pic below are two of my favorite residents. I didn't put them there -- they both moved to that spot, without even filling out the proper paperwork!

I'd like to think I might end up with the most beautiful hybrid ever and sell the babies to pay for my tank, but I suspect that's not how biology works. More likely, I think the nem will sting my shroom.

What do I do? Will the shroom survive and move away? I don't want to move them because I think I'll probably hurt them trying to get them off the rock.

 

[Rubberfrog]

Film it all in time lapse so we can watch the battle!

 

[pseudorand]

A snuff film, eh? I didn't think R2R was that kind of site.

I'd love to if I had the equipment and if shrooms and nems weren't the few non-fish thing that survive well in my tank.

How do I keep them both alive!?!

 

[Rubberfrog]

You're going to have e to mo e one or the other. Usually, a little consistent pressure will get a nem to release. It may just move back to the same spot.

 

[pseudorand]

Surprisingly, it almost looks like the nem is the one backing off.

Since this is the 'shroom forum, go discosoma!

 

[pseudorand]

This the the nem saying "screw you human, I ain't movin'"

They were definitely almost touching before I tried to grab the nem just now, and no one seemed the worse for wear. Be he's got a hole he curls up into there, so there's no getting him out in one piece.

 

[Pistondog]

In the pic below are two of my favorite residents. I didn't put them there -- they both moved to that spot, without even filling out the proper paperwork!

I'd like to think I might end up with the most beautiful hybrid ever and sell the babies to pay for my tank, but I suspect that's not how biology works. More likely, I think the nem will sting my shroom.

What do I do? Will the shroom survive and move away? I don't want to move them because I think I'll probably hurt them trying to get them off the rock.

My ricordea have given the bta plenty of space.
The shrooms will move.

 

[tjohnson3]

One or the other will move... slowly, but surely. In the meantime, one will kind of “refrain” from touching the other