mushroom multiplication

[salty blues]

Under generally favorable conditions, how soon/often will mushrooms multiply?

 

[reefkprz]

too often. I have been trying to eradicate mushrooms from my 75g to no avail for several months and the darn things keep popping up everywhere.

 

[salty blues]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
http:///forum/post/2559609
too often. I have been trying to eradicate mushrooms from my 75g to no avail for several months and the darn things keep popping up everywhere.
So what exactly do you have against mushrooms in particular?

 

[salty blues]

Anybody else averse to 'shrooms?

 

[anonome]

It really depends on the type of mushrooms. I have 3 different types, but only one keeps multiplying. No adversion to mushrooms, but if you are trying to go more on the sps corals they will cause havoc.

 

[salty blues]

Originally Posted by Anonome
http:///forum/post/2559936
It really depends on the type of mushrooms. I have 3 different types, but only one keeps multiplying. No adversion to mushrooms, but if you are trying to go more on the sps corals they will cause havoc.
I get it. I have just started keeping any corals whatsoever, those being mushrooms, and figured that if/when they multiply it will be a gauge of success.

 

[anonome]

Absolutely, they only multiply when all your levels are on target. They are considered one of the easier corals to keep.

 

[lmecher]

I love my mushrooms, I have a big hairy mushroom my clowns are hosting, the clown in the picture is a little over 2in. long.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...larisclown.jpg

 

[shoregirl2]

Great pic, does your mushroom get bothered at all?

 

[salty blues]

Originally Posted by Lmecher
http:///forum/post/2559984
I love my mushrooms, I have a big hairy mushroom my clowns are hosting, the clown in the picture is a little over 2in. long.
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l...larisclown.jpg
Cool shot.

 

[reefmate75]

some mushrooms split alot, others which tent to cost quite a bit more dont like to split, but on them touch them alittle and make them shrink up and expose their foot and slice a pice off and that pice will move slowly away and grow another one, some like that has been stated do split way to much, one of these would be the watermellon shroom which if starting with 1, withen a year you can have hundreds of them without cutting there foot at all
lemcher, i have a mushroom almost like the one in your pic but mine is blue base area with pink/purple/ and green tips

that is one that dosent like to split it just keeps getting bigger, i am yet to cut its foot but i see 5 good spots of its foot to cut when i think its gotten big enough (its about 4" now, my friend that traded it to me has one that is 13" across)

 

[lmecher]

Oh yeah, your question. My mushrooms have been multiplying I started with one of each color (4) I count 12 new ones in appx. 8 months. I attribute this to good chemistry, flow and high nutrients.

 

[lmecher]

I got that hairy mushroom about 8 months ago when I was in a cutting phase. It was about 1 1/2 inches across, I cut it in half, one half dissolved and this half just kept growing. It's plain I know but it is interesting. It dose not seem to be phased by my 2 clowns cuddlying up in it all day long.
Anyway I would not recomend cutting to propigate, it's too hard to get the little buggers to attach. : )

 

[socalracer]

i had a mushroom hitchhike in a baqg when i bought a fish (i think it is a green stripe....anyways it has prob been a year and a half and now i have about 25, this is in a 100g with strip lighting from wal mart. personally i think they are really hearty as i do nothing more then feed my fish, and do normal water changes

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by salty blues
http:///forum/post/2559626
So what exactly do you have against mushrooms in particular?
their uncanny ability to grow over and shade out/kill a coral with 35x their value.

 

[salty blues]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
http:///forum/post/2560953
their uncanny ability to grow over and shade out/kill a coral with 35x their value.
Man, that's some super rich corals you must have there.
I understand your point, however I am new to coral keeping and am starting with mushrooms as they apparently are a good beginner coral and suited to my budget and the lighting(pc) I presently have on my tank.
Since I am a beginner, if I am going to kill a coral, I don't want to kill a big money specimen. I paid about $65 with shipping for the mushrooms I bought. That would make your example worth $65 X 35 = $2,275. That's a little rich for my blood.

 

[digitydash]

I have sold so much live rock with mushrooms on them.I sell it just to recoop what LR I tank out.It looks like I never took any out.I would say it is one of the worse corals I have ever bought rite next to my gsp.

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by salty blues
http:///forum/post/2561572
Since I am a beginner, if I am going to kill a coral, I don't want to kill a big money specimen. I paid about $65 with shipping for the mushrooms I bought. That would make your example worth $65 X 35 = $2,275. That's a little rich for my blood.

thats where value becomes relative a single mushroom isnt worth 2$ to me so a $100 blue echinata is actually closer to 50x value. some SPS frags at 20-50$ a pop can be seriously harmed by a mushroom so eradication is a safer route. I usually give away my mushrooms to people who want them when I find them.

 

[alix2.0]

i wish i had the "too many shrooms" problem. i really like them, but my LFS never has any cute ones.

 

[salty blues]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
http:///forum/post/2562934

thats where value becomes relative a single mushroom isnt worth 2$ to me so a $100 blue echinata is actually closer to 50x value. some SPS frags at 20-50$ a pop can be seriously harmed by a mushroom so eradication is a safer route. I usually give away my mushrooms to people who want them when I find them.

So, being anti-mushroom, how is it that you have them in your tank to begin with? Did they hitchhike into your tank or something?