How do Mushrooms Multiply?

[smoney]

I think I may have an idea, Do they just kind of split at the base? because if that is the case a few of my mushrooms are multipling?

 

[thegrog]

Well....when a daddy mushroom and a mommy mushroom love each other very much.....
Ha! I kill me! Seriously, they multiply by splitting. I have watched mine extend what looks like a small foot that eventually breaks off and forms a new mushroom. No birds and bees here!

 

[chipmaker]

I have always been told thats how they do it....BUT......I have a few mushrooms that a few days ago appeared to have spots on the mantle, and since I added a new coral I thought these were getting involved in a war amongst themselves...........In no time I had quite a few shrooms with what looked like blisters or burnt spots appearing, and even some that wer enot anywhere near the new coral........I kept watching them and they seemed to sort of appear to be healing as some of these blisters were now lifting up like a loose scab and under the blister it appered to look perfectly fine........But upon closer examination it appears that those psots were all baby mushrooms.........some have come off the parent and have floated off and I have found a few here and there......but there are still quite a few with the new babys on them that are slowly getting their color and getting looser so it won;t be long until they drift off to find a new spot to grow......

 

[speg]

Some mushrooms actually split. Some move and as they do, rip pieces of their foot off and those pieces grow full mushrooms. FL ricordea mushrooms are prime examples of splitting mushrooms.

 

[smoney]

Yeah, I see my ricordea doing a sort of splitting thing, and I see my purple bumpy mushroom and striped green mushrooms forming a new mushroom at the feet. I also see that one of my brown mushrooms split.

 

[farmboy]

My observations have been to see them grow bigger in low flow areas and multiply less. The opposite seems true also. Higher flow=smaller but more and more "movement".
Sound about right?

 

[smoney]

Hey Farmboy, BTW I did my first frag and Its one of those purple bumpy ones you wanted, but it is attached and ready to send, so I will try and send it out monday, my first frag!

 

[farmboy]

Awesome! I'm trying to work a trade with Hot883, now.
Trades GOOD!