Thinning Mushrooms back

[pickupman66]

Ok. so I have some mushrooms that were on my rocks when I moved tanks. while they are pretty, they are starting to spread and I really dont want a rock full of mushrooms. How can I thin these things back? they are quite hardy and very attached to some porus rock.

 

[143MPCo]

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[eatbreakfast]

Use an aiptasia killing solution. Let it stay on for 10-15minutes then siphon out. Some resilient ones may need a second dose.

 

[Humblefish]

You can sometimes peel them off, but oftentimes you just destroy the mushroom in the process and this will cause them to spit toxins. IME; ricordeas are not as invasive as most other mushrooms. Other mushrooms will start to break off, roll around the tank, attach to another rock in a different place.

 

[brandon429]

I just cleared a tank of over 100 red mushroom growths and I found the only thing that worked was full rock removal, and chipping up under the frag to totally remove all tissue, growback is rampant from mushrooms being cut or mashed in any way. it wont kill them, it will make them multiply is the risk. my tank overgrowth was easy to clear and the chipped areas have coralline over them now anyway

 

[Cleo642]

You can sometimes peel them off, but oftentimes you just destroy the mushroom in the process and this will cause them to spit toxins. IME; ricordeas are not as invasive as most other mushrooms. Other mushrooms will start to break off, roll around the tank, attach to another rock in a different place.

Almost sounds like those crazy ants. Lol

 

[brandon429]

I think one of the grossest reef vids I recall is somewhere on the tube where they are grinding up whole shrooms in a blender mess that ruins any healthfood shake ill ever look at, then pouring that muck into reef tanks, waiting, and getting tons of shrooms. heck, if you can survive a blending then crown of thorns has nothing on you man

 

[Cleo642]

I think one of the grossest reef vids I recall is somewhere on the tube where they are grinding up whole shrooms in a blender mess that ruins any healthfood shake ill ever look at, then pouring that muck into reef tanks, waiting, and getting tons of shrooms. heck, if you can survive a blending then crown of thorns has nothing on you man

They can reproduce like that?

 

[brandon429]

oh sure they are prob the most voracious pedal laceration reproducers we have. I don't know how well this trait spreads to rhodactis and cousins, but most corallimorphs can be physically decimated and come back piece by piece, its not like other organisms where part of the oral disc or area must be included in the cut

when I searched for blender technique for mushroom anemones I got a range of "worked" didn't work outcomes, but most were just scissor cutting them into shreds to reproduce and that usually does work

 

[Cleo642]

oh sure they are prob the most voracious pedal laceration reproducers we have. I don't know how well this trait spreads to rhodactis and cousins, but most corallimorphs can be physically decimated and come back piece by piece, its not like other organisms where part of the oral disc or area must be included in the cut

Wow, if the coral do end up bleaching out, mushrooms will just takeover the whole thing.

 

[RicordeaMadness]

Ok. so I have some mushrooms that were on my rocks when I moved tanks. while they are pretty, they are starting to spread and I really dont want a rock full of mushrooms. How can I thin these things back? they are quite hardy and very attached to some porus rock.

If you can remove the rock chip them away then trade them in to your LRS or local reefers for something nice. I do this a lot with one of my mushroom rocks get about $5 trade in value per mushroom.

 

[pickupman66]

this rock they are on will not be removed. it is a Massive 24x18 piece that is 5 inches thick and well rankly is not removeable. i will try the aptasia removal product.

 

[kireek]

You could try laying rubble or coral skeletons on top of them to encourage them to move up.The shrooms at least slow down as they reach for light and hopefully reattach themselves.Acro and birds nest shards work well with crowded areas.