Hairy mushroom HELP
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hairtrigger
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It might have been expelling waste. Sometimes mushrooms get really fat, curl up, and then a short time later are back to normal. It could have been getting rid of waste or adjusting to the PH change when you turned you lights on. As long as the water is great and the shroom looks fine... no worries. 
jonthefb
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when i do feed them my coral concoction, a lot of it does stick to their tentacles and then they ball up around the food so i know they are eating, however they need to grow faster!!!!!!!!maybe milk is the answer....oh wait they dont need strong bones cause they are softies! damn!
one other question guy. do you ever add iodine to your tank for the shrooms? i think i read somewhere the shrooms benefit from the addition of iodine to a reef tank. any idea?
good luck
jon
one other question guy. do you ever add iodine to your tank for the shrooms? i think i read somewhere the shrooms benefit from the addition of iodine to a reef tank. any idea?
good luck
jon
bang guy
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I never, ever, ever, directly add Iodine. Some is added with water changes, plenty is added with food. I see no benefit to having greater than NSW levels and a recent study concluded that the average reef tank has 10X higher Iodine levels than NSW. We should be looking for ways to remove it... not add it.
entice59
Active Member
speaking of mushrooms, how do i make mines bloom around my tank instead of blooming on the rock, i thought they should have been all over my live rock by now......... as for feeding... for mines can i actually feed it? and if so will it help spread around my tank
heres a pic 10 minutes after turning on the light so it actually looks small now but will grow bigger as the light is on longer
heres a pic 10 minutes after turning on the light so it actually looks small now but will grow bigger as the light is on longer
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newreefers
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I add a smidge of iodine to my tank. My shrimp are fine, and my shrooms are gorwing like crazy!! Multiplying like bunny rabbits.
entice59
Active Member
i would add idoine, but my tank seems to be growning cyno, its getting better, looks like the macro algae is winning the fight for me(atleast i think) i bought a bumble bee snail and 3 blue legged hermits and put it right on top of them and they just went away!!!!!! aw!!!! i feel so cheated, lol. i have idoine, but would it increase the cyno? heres a pic of the mushrooms opened
i wish i had it blooming like crazy, perhaps i should have turned off the skimmer when i added it in....
i wish i had it blooming like crazy, perhaps i should have turned off the skimmer when i added it in....
jonthefb
Active Member
enitce, it takes awhile for your tank to get covered in shrooms. they mainly reproduce by pedal laceration, meaning that as they crawl across the crowded lr, they leave bits of their foot behind, and these bits develop into new shrooms. give it time. they wont just magically appear, youhave to give em some help. some say that by cutting them like a pizza they will reproduce faster, however i have never had the time, nor the strength to begin slicing up my mushrooms(placing them on a pizza doesnty even sound appealing )
just give em some time and if you have to, move the rock around your tank after some separate, to get em all over!
good luck
jon
)just give em some time and if you have to, move the rock around your tank after some separate, to get em all over!
good luck
jon
