peter rappa
New Member
My 90 gallon reef tank is being taken over by purple mushrooms...I use RO water and quality is good..Can I use an Aptasia killer for these mushrooms...At this rate, they will overtake the tank in a few months...
Purple Mushroom Invasion
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groupergenius
Active Member
Do you have a picture of these purple mushrooms??
peter rappa
New Member
I dont have a picture ... on ***they are simply called purple mushroom coral..
groupergenius
Active Member
Originally Posted by peter rappa
http:///forum/post/2617692
I dont have a picture ... on l****.com they are simply called purple mushroom coral..
Take some out and sell them.
http:///forum/post/2617692
I dont have a picture ... on l****.com they are simply called purple mushroom coral..
Take some out and sell them.
bkvreef
Member
Originally Posted by peter rappa
http:///forum/post/2617692
I dont have a picture ... on ****they are simply called purple mushroom coral..
You can sell them!!! (or give them to me
)
http:///forum/post/2617692
I dont have a picture ... on ****they are simply called purple mushroom coral..
You can sell them!!! (or give them to me
peter rappa
New Member
dont want to sell them, i want to KILL them....They are stuck to every piece of live rock
bkvreef
Member
Originally Posted by morval
http:///forum/post/2617720
you should at least take them to ur LFS for credit . for some reason i got purpel mushroom that spreads like crazy too. one of my LFS's sells singles that fall off durring shipping or whatever for $3 and the purple i got just keeps budding and moving.
Hey if nothing else take them to the store and trade them in for "clean" live rock.
http:///forum/post/2617720
you should at least take them to ur LFS for credit . for some reason i got purpel mushroom that spreads like crazy too. one of my LFS's sells singles that fall off durring shipping or whatever for $3 and the purple i got just keeps budding and moving.
Hey if nothing else take them to the store and trade them in for "clean" live rock.
cowfishrule
Active Member
on the rock that has shrooms on it, break that into pieces with shrooms still on it.
*boom* instant money pieces.
*boom* instant money pieces.
ci11337
Active Member
Purple shrooms grow like crazy. i had hundreds of them and i cut off their heads, sold the heads to a LFS once they attached to crushed coral then did it all over again for years. A few weeks ago all of the shrooms but 5 died for no reason (i think my LPS killed them some how) Now i already have about 2 dozen again but i'm fragging them back more often. Aptasia killers don't work on them. If they are all you have u could find a fish to eat them. Don't worry about it to much, shroom overgrowth isn't a bad problem.
cowfishrule
Active Member
Originally Posted by ci11337
http:///forum/post/2617879
Don't worry about it to much, shroom overgrowth isn't a bad problem.
there was a dood on here last year that had red shrooms literally overtake his tank. 3 out of 4 walls were covered; had to be well over 1000 shrooms in there. they were growing like cancer.
he might beg to differ
http:///forum/post/2617879
Don't worry about it to much, shroom overgrowth isn't a bad problem.
there was a dood on here last year that had red shrooms literally overtake his tank. 3 out of 4 walls were covered; had to be well over 1000 shrooms in there. they were growing like cancer.
he might beg to differ
ci11337
Active Member
When i went on vacation for a week they grew up the glass, covering the whole left side. I scraped them off and got a candy cane frag for free at the LFS.
They say you don't know what u got until its gone, and even though you wanna kill them now if they all died tonight you'd miss them, (and the LFS credit
)
A
augustwest
Guest
get a large bore syringe and some kalkwasser powder. mix the power in to a paste and inject it in to the shooms. be careful to monitor your calcium while doing this. on some shrooms i have used liquid calcium with sucess, but for the tougher ones the paste does the trick.
cowfishrule
Active Member
tell ya what.
break me off a decent piece covered with them.
i'll pay for shipping.
break me off a decent piece covered with them.
i'll pay for shipping.
D
dborne3
Guest
I've been looking to get some of these as well. I would like some if you would get rid of them
reefmate75
Member
you will never be able to totally get rid of all the shrooms if they have taken over every thing, the only way to insure you kill all of them is to boil all the rocks in your tank...and i do not reccomend doing that enless you want to start all over anyways, if all you have is shrooms get a shroom eating nuddy
cant starve a shroom of light and kill it eather, i had live rocks in my garages in holding tanks without a light tht had shroom on it for 7 months and the shrooms servived, they where pretty clear looking but they got there color back after the rocks went back into a tank...they where the purple ones also
cant starve a shroom of light and kill it eather, i had live rocks in my garages in holding tanks without a light tht had shroom on it for 7 months and the shrooms servived, they where pretty clear looking but they got there color back after the rocks went back into a tank...they where the purple ones also
majormaz
Member
Originally Posted by COWFISHRULE
http:///forum/post/2617914
there was a dood on here last year that had red shrooms literally overtake his tank. 3 out of 4 walls were covered; had to be well over 1000 shrooms in there. they were growing like cancer.
he might beg to differ
http:///forum/post/2617914
there was a dood on here last year that had red shrooms literally overtake his tank. 3 out of 4 walls were covered; had to be well over 1000 shrooms in there. they were growing like cancer.
he might beg to differ
