mushrooms "care" for their young? lol

[bluelagoon]

ok, so i know this is pretty silly that i'm even posting this, but i noticed it last week.
i have just a few mushrooms in my tank that my mom gave me. the big one i have (dunno what kind it is) has now dropped off two little mini-mushrooms :jumping: . lol. anyways, the first baby was left on the piece of rubble that the mushroom came on, so it got moved to another part of the tank. this second one that i noticed a couple weeks ago is behind the original mushroom, so i can't even see it normally. anyways. the big shroom always used to spread way out to cover a lot of space on the rock, but now it mostly just spreads forward, as if making sure that it's baby gets enough light. the little one does have to stretch a little bit, but that's nothing to what it would have to do if the big shroom extended fully like it used to.
just a little thing i noticed.... thought i'd share my mommy mushroom! lol

 

[alyssia]

That is cute!

 

[maxalmon]

Here is a photo of my striped mushrooms, when I ordered it it said two, 3.5" mushrooms, but when I inspected it, there were 2 babys about 1" under each mushroom and three 1/4" mini babys on the side of the rock. Can you move the 1" babys off the rock or should I just let them be, do these guys move around on their own? you can see 1 baby in the center and another to the left of the orange sponge.

 

[bluelagoon]

mine kinda just moves on it's own, but i know some people frag or move them or something. if my camera were decent i would take a pic of my shrooms, but, it sucks. lol

 

[maxalmon]

Just noticed the one on the bottom of the pic I posted above has moved about 1" farther down the rock, now both babies are fully exposed.

 

[maxalmon]

Just noticed the one on the bottom of the pic I posted above has moved about 1" farther down the rock, now both babies are fully exposed.

 

[ctgretzky9]

Cute story, but mushrooms dont care for their young in any way...lol
Mushrooms move pretty quickly when the need arises. I have seen "babies" move an inch or so in a 24 hr period.

 

[bluelagoon]

don't worry, i know they don't care for their young. i just noticed that it wasn't spread out quite as much as it used to be, and i was bored. lol. :happyfish

 

[nm reef]

It may not be technically true that parent 'shrooms actually "care" for their young...but I've noticed on several occassions that they indeed do seem to shelter them while they are young......

 

[bluelagoon]

great pic NM reef! i was really surprised when i saw that it didn't spread out fully towards the back of the tank...especially since it seemed to favor that direction anyways.

 

[nm reef]

Thanks.......

 

[ctgretzky9]

Darn...I cant find the pic of one of my larger ones eating the baby one.... :scared:

 

[maxalmon]

The shroom has now moved about 3" and I've discovered that the smaller babies have now stretched out and I've discovered 3 more now that it's moved, so now I'm up to a total of 11 shrooms on this rock that was sold to me as having "two, 3" shrooms" now if the other large one would just move I might even find more. It looks like the one is going to vacate the rock and move onto an adjoing rock, guess things are getting a little crowded...LOL