Growing Mushrooms

[bsp]

I have several mushrooms in my tank (12gal Nano),but they don't seem to be doing well. Do you have to feed them? How do you get them to spread? They are on the bottom in the sand and I have the regular lights that came with the tank.

 

[fedukeford]

u dont need to feed them, just frag them by taking themoff the rock, cutting them into 2 or 4 pieces through the mouth, then get them to attach to the rocks you want

 

[lagger]

Do you have to frag them? I thought they just spread by themselves? Like splitting or something

 

[chipmaker]

I feed my shrooms all the time. You can drop a piece of pelleted fish food on their moouth and they will consume it. I made a tool that I use toload up with pellets and dispense a pellet or two or three at a time on each shroom, and they promptly ball up and consume it. I found that wh ile my shrooms did fine before I started to feed them, they do fantastic since I started to feed them. The grow faster, have much better color, and reproduce more.
Fragging shrooms is easy, just use a razor blade or sharp hobby knife and slice it into halves or quaraters with each portion having a section of the mouth. Use a hypodermic needle or syringe to stick em where you want them on live rock or frags of live rock, or just let em on the sand until the pick up some rubble and use super glue gel to stick that adhered rubble in place. Do not try to super glue a shroom with out saome sort of attached rubble or rock etc, as it will not stay. I prefer the hypodermic needle process as its quick and easy and is not an eyesore like netting and cages etc are.

 

[bsp]

chipmaker, I was feeding them at one time,but was told you don't have to by the people at the LFS. Of cause they want to sell you more.Can you feed them frozen food and how often? Also could you use straight pins to pin them to the rocks?