Killer Mushroom

b0b82

Member
Mushroom ate my Mandarin and my glass shrimp. Anyone want a green hairy mushroom? How can I get him off the rock?
 

coral keeper

Active Member
I think its a carpet anemone or something like that. IMO a hairy mushroom can't eat a mandarin fish and a shrimp.
 

dnraiders

Member
has to be a carpet anenome..i dont think it will eat things that big if it was a mushroom... how big is it?
 

lilzeus99

Member
I was at a LFS talking about a mandarin, and they told me to be very careful if I had any anenomes becasue slow moving fish and critters can't get away from them before stung to death....Just what I herd...
 

paintballer768

Active Member
Mushrooms really arent softies, theyre called corallimorpharians. Distantly evolved anemones. If the fish was slow or got hit hard enough, it is very possible it could have eaten what it did.
 
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alexmir

Guest
someones clown on here a while back got eaten by a mushroom. None of my mushrooms move fast enough to eat anything though.
To remove it just get a razorblade, and cut it as close to the rock as possible. It will probably eventually start to grow back, if it does just get another razorblade and mutilate it until it never comes back!!!
 

paintballer768

Active Member
Originally Posted by alexmir
http:///forum/post/2754978
someones clown on here a while back got eaten by a mushroom. None of my mushrooms move fast enough to eat anything though.
To remove it just get a razorblade, and cut it as close to the rock as possible. It will probably eventually start to grow back, if it does just get another razorblade and mutilate it until it never comes back!!!
Or chisel the rock its on, set it aside and sell it :p
 

murph145

Active Member
yea that sounds crazy u sure its not an elephant mushroom those kinds get huge and actually will eat things
 

socal57che

Active Member
Originally Posted by murph145
http:///forum/post/2755140
yea that sounds crazy u sure its not an elephant mushroom those kinds get huge and actually will eat things
Hey Murph, we don't cross paths very often, but I was wondering where in southern Ca you were located?
 

addicted2

Member
I have this elephant mushroom....bought it cause I liked the colour...it was PINK! and it WAS alot smaller! Well, the thing is huge now, probably 9-10 inches across when fully out...here's a pic...this was taken months ago...you should see it now! HUGE!
scares me, I just pray everytime I look in the tank all my fish are there, I have had mysterious losses occasionally with not a bone to be found...hmmmm...I just hate to think it is my pink mushroom.

 

b0b82

Member
Sorry I dont have a picture yet I need my Mom to come over and take some.It is about 6" now and green with brown things all over it.I bought it awhile back thinking it was cool looking and now its getting scarry. It was about dime sized. I use to feed it silversides and shrimp.I guess I need to go back to feeding it more often. I did see it close up in a ball and when I looked inside it looked like white stringy stuff inside. I thought it was going to puke its gutts out or something.
 

socal57che

Active Member
Originally Posted by murph145
http:///forum/post/2755571
im in simi valley off the 118 do u know where that is?
Near the Los Angeles Nat'l Forest, right? Never been to Simi Valley, but have prolly seen signs on my occasional drive to Goleta. The 101 is MURDER through there at rush hour.
 
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