My Mushroom Garden Table Saga 2.0 build thread

[TriggerFinger]

question shroomies.....
I get Roxanne.
why Earl?

That green is fabulously bright. It would compliment your grinch fingers gsp ;Joyful

 

[TriggerFinger]

What do you think about this guy?

Maybe a Forest fire?

 

[fishguy242]

can't wait to get these back under lights..lots of colors..

 

[sp1187]

@sp1187
We are going to need you to try shrooms again sir.

I have lots of shrooms.
discos.
that big toxic green I posted up.....melted.
the hairy shrooms.... melted.
bouncy bounce.... melted. (I forgot I did have one once)
yumas.... yep... you guessed it.... melted.

 

[LRT]

can't wait to get these back under lights..lots of colors..

Can't wait either I look at your pix through @F i s h y goggles now
I seent them in your thread man cant wait to see them in table.
Is it poppin yet?

 

[LRT]

I have lots of shrooms.
discos.
that big toxic green I posted up.....melted.
the hairy shrooms.... melted.
bouncy bounce.... melted. (I forgot I did have one once)
yumas.... yep... you guessed it.... melted.

Alright ok thats me and Zoas and every other coral except for this grafted cap I have lol.
I wonder if its chemical warfare happening with all your Zoas and vice versa for me.
Zoas seem to be winning the fight with the godzilla yuma on my table

 

[fishguy242]

not yet ,been on other things,tomorrow is plan,is rt behind 12'er ,cannot work with the lights on all night..

 

[LRT]

not yet ,been on other things,tomorrow is plan,is rt behind 12'er ,cannot work with the lights on all night..

Right on bro. Some of my projects roll on for months. Looks like they are nice and happy waiting for the big move.

 

[sp1187]

Alright ok thats me and Zoas and every other coral except for this grafted cap I have lol.
I wonder if its chemical warfare happening with all your Zoas and vice versa for me.
Zoas seem to be winning the fight with the godzilla yuma on my table

not warfare here. I've kept the zoa's separate from all those I lost.
they seem to play nice with the discos.

 

[LRT]

not warfare here. I've kept the zoa's separate from all those I lost.
they seem to play nice with the discos.

Perplexed bro. I'm back to you need to try shrooms again man
I'll be honest i couldn't do yumas until recently. Nothing really changed except my system matured and thing got alot more stabile. Now I'm growing yumas.
I think we should try and throw a Roxanne in there and see what happens
If you can melt her your the man



Again

 

[sp1187]

Perplexed bro. I'm back to you need to try shrooms again man
I'll be honest i couldn't do yumas until recently. Nothing really changed except my system matured and thing got alot more stabile. Now I'm growing yumas.
I think we should try and throw a Roxanne in there and see what happens
If you can melt her your the man



Again

THIS?

 

[sp1187]

shroom/zoa garden

 

[LRT]

THIS?

No thats reminds me of some kind of candy crush/deadpool variant.
I'm talking about a super duper Roxanne disco that never fails lol
Not the big one here its much like yours. Slow grower. Drops maybe a cpl babies a yr. Taken almost a year to mature.
I'm talking about the Roxannes around the edge you kinda need a blowtorch to stop them

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Let's call in @Eagle_Steve. I see balls on tips and my aiptasia are pretty translucent. Maybe Majano? Idk

If there are 20 or so, it is a majano. Tulip nems do not reproduce as quick and are more closely related to aiptasia.

The oral disk on that guy is a dead give away.

Ok, since you know I love pest nems, but not in my display tanks, here is what you do.

Small syringe
Lemon juice

Fill syringe with lemon juice. Inject 1/3 of syringe directly into the nem. Stab it as center as you can get to the oral disk and watch it melt. Majano nems do not have spores, so kalk is not needed.

For a lot of majano, lemon juice is better than kalk, as the ph disruption is very minimal and quick to dissipate.

 

[danieyella]

I have lots of shrooms.
discos.
that big toxic green I posted up.....melted.
the hairy shrooms.... melted.
bouncy bounce.... melted. (I forgot I did have one once)
yumas.... yep... you guessed it.... melted.

Yup, that's my situation with every shroom except the giant guy in the big tank. I do my water changes from the big tank to the little tank, shrooms do great in the small one.... I don't get it.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

If there are 20 or so, it is a majano. Tulip nems do not reproduce as quick and are more closely related to aiptasia.

The oral disk on that guy is a dead give away.

Ok, since you know I love pest nems, but not in my display tanks, here is what you do.

Small syringe
Lemon juice

Fill syringe with lemon juice. Inject 1/3 of syringe directly into the nem. Stab it as center as you can get to the oral disk and watch it melt. Majano nems do not have spores, so kalk is not needed.

For a lot of majano, lemon juice is better than kalk, as the ph disruption is very minimal and quick to dissipate.

None of these guys are more than 1/3" across, most 1/4" or smaller. I'll need to look up majano. Thanks for the ID.

I was kind of wondering if they were aptAsia or not as nothing seems to mind them.so let's go happily around them I've got a few mushrooms growing with them GSP doesn't care. They don't seem to be stinging anything.

when you say a third of a syringe can you give me what that would be in ml to you as I've got quite a few different size syringes from vaccinating dogs and puppies.

I've got half a bottle of aptasia x that was in the bin of things that came with the tank. Would it be worth trying that before lemon juice or straight to lemon juice?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

question shroomies.....
I get Roxanne.
why Earl?

I'm probably to blame for the earl name. I don't know the initial use but it just Fell out of my mouth when taking about all the green bounces in my tank. The name stuck. EARL is the big green rock now in my dt and the only place I allowed the mushrooms to stay. They were fragged off everywhere else. All the mushrooms on EARL and off EARL are earl.

For lack of a formal ID, that's just what's stuck.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Maybe a Forest fire?

I'm hoping it actually colors up to resemble this, which was supposed to be wysiwyg..
I don't see most of the colors.

 

[LRT]

Alright proper update time
THE SAGA CONTINUES:
As well as a full on disclosure of sorts.
I bombed my system with chemiclean. Yup I cheated. But before anyone gets all judgemental I can explain why so you get a better picture as well as know this wasn't a bandaid fix. Underlying issues have been met with full force and fixed and ill get into that in a bit.
Anyhow somewhere in between setting up algae turf skimmer and spotless shop vac cleaning of my barebottom sumps in my bare bottom system thats only a year old now...
My sumps exploded with cyano bacteria. I'm not talking a little bit. I'm talking a thick mat of cyano covering every surface of rock that was clinking off floating in the sumps. Totally nasty wish I would have gotten a picture but almost had a heart attack because It kind of happened almost overnight. And drastic times called for drastic measures.
Now let's get into some real full disclosure so you understand the mistakes I made that has led up to the current events.
First. During initial build I bought a second hand RO system. No DI. Because it "looked brand new" i decided to just run with the used filters.
Yup I promise I did that for about 4 months until I decided to get crazy and start checking parameters and found out water I was using had an alk of 14-15, tds as high as 4-500ppm.
This was all the same time I realized hey my api nitrate test kit must be broken because no matter how much I dumped in i couldnt get nitrates to register. Long story shortened it took 100% water change just to get it to register super high on red sea kit.
To this day I cant get Nitrates to read lower than 10ppm no matter what I do but can tell you I have stabilized between 10-20ppm and im ok with that.

Back to source water lol. After my initial failure with used RO system. I got an RODI with no tds meter. Hahaha yup I did it again!
Let that guy run heavy with dead resin in it for who knows how long so again I was pumping water in my system that was probably worse than my tap water!
About 2 month ago I decided to just hey why don't I get a tds meter because I can't seem to clean these nasties and keep it clean no matter how many times I clean things up so something has to be wrong lol I knew all along though.
Source water issue solved. Replaced my RO filters with legit filters to handle my city water properly. Snagged a brs 3 stage DI system with tripple DI meter that came with it and proper resin.
0 tds is the only way im running from here on out or not running at all.

So to not run on any further with this back to chemiclean. I'm gonna do it again if I have to. Keep params table.
Keep due diligence cleaning and heavy preventative maintenance and hope for the best. Took me a solid year to totally fail at it so not expecting overnight fix.
I can tell you system is 1000% better and my shrooms are loving me for it.

Peep the prognosis Next time to see FTS pix your not gonna be seeing any dirty nasty plugs or discs or anything thats not pleasant to look at I can assure you.
In case your wondering... whatever that dirty nasty doo doo brown stuff on my discs actually is? Idk but I can tell you I can't soak one in 12% h202 and scrubber with toothbrush to get it off!
Glad I was able to get all that off me chest

 

[F i s h y]

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