Removing mushroom from rock

[casey]

Can someone tell me the best method for removing mushrooms from their live rock? I have several mushrooms that I have bought over the course of the past 6 months that came already attached to a small piece of rock. So now my tank has many smaller pieces of live rock that can easily fall if a fish bumps into it. Plus the tank would look much better if the mushrooms were attached to some of my larger live rock. Occasionally I find a small mushroom that has attached to an area of a rock where no one can see it. So I would like to move these as well.
Any suggestions? I don't want to do anything that would harm the mushrooms. I working hard at trying to get my mushrooms to grow and multiply.
Thanks,
Casey

 

[attml]

If you want to frag a mushroom there are several ways to do it. You can remove a slice (like pizza or pie) which will fill back in. The fragged piece will re-grow a stalk. You can cut the head off a mushroom leaving the stalk which will regenerate a new head and the head will regenerate a new stalk when resecured to live rock. You can even cut the cap off and quarter it to make more frags.
As far as full removal I would use a sharpe knife or blade and cut as close to the rock that you are removing it from as possible! It may still regenerate another mushroom where the old one was if you don't get it all! Good luck!