My first time fragging EVER, did i do it right???
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coraljunky
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Sounds good. Is it secured not to float away? Give it time, it will attach and open. Good Luck
reefer545
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Find the place in your tank that stuff seems to always wash up. Hopefully it is around the perimeter. That is where your mushie is. I have had this happen. the best way to deal with it is to find it and put in a container that is weighed down with sand or rock. A round PIZZA PARLOR oregano, pepper flake, cheese shaker also works like a charm if you put small rocks in it with the mushroom. You can even drill a few holes in the bottom for a little better flow. The mushroom should be taken out as soon as you are sure it has attached, because the shaker provides grounds for DEAD WATER. It should only take a few days to a week. Just be sure to place the shaker opening in a position that gets SOME flow, but not much or it will float away again.
xd
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uuggg this little mushroom is starting to get on my last nerves. so i tryed the bowl and mesh route but th mushroom kept getting blown off the rubble and fliped over.then i would have to go in the tank to past my elbow and take the mesh off and then reset everything to just go away for an hour to find him blown off again and go through that all again. and there is like barely any flow in the part of the tank so i dont know wat his problem is. so i tryed just placing him on a rock where there is little flow, but nuthing can ever go right for me and my tank so of course he gets blown off and rolls under a piece of base rock where i cant reach him, so the only way for me to get him would to be tear everything down so im like F**K it im done with him. then i discovered that my large mushroom split or dropped another mushroom so i guess it all balances out. or at least i thinks its another mushroom, cuz it is a light pinkish color and i poked it and it felt just like a mushroom, but it looks like the stalk is forming do you think this is a new mushroom?
isistius
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if it hasn't floated away, you can go the tooth pick route. i just fragged several mushrooms this way. the best to use are the little cocktail swords. just stab the shroom near the center, and jab the sword into a crevice on a rock. within a week, you can remove the sword. worst case scenario, the sword doesn't hold, you can put a drop of crazy glue on the rock, then jam the sword in there. then instead of pulling the sword out, just cut it as close to the shroom as possible. don't worry about the shroom, it'll heal just fine.
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