So this is why they call them Mushrooms

[azfishgal]

So I always wondered why they called them mushrooms, I mean they don't look like mushrooms. Well, today I was feeding my tank some pellets and one landed on the fuzzy mushroom. My daughter is the one who saw it and called me over, saying the mushroom was starting to fold in. We watched it until it was completed folded in on itself. It was very cool.

It stayed like this for about 5 minutes and then went back down. I've never seen my red mushrooms do this, so it took me by surprise.

This is what it normally looks like.

 

[reefkprz]

thats one of the types of mushroom that accepts spot feeding, if you spot feed it often it will multiply faster. red mushrooms dont generally react to foods.

 

[azfishgal]

I've actually spot fed my red mushrooms, but he just puffed up his mouth and slowly took the mysis shrimp in. He did become more puffy while eating, but didn't roll up on itself like this one did. How often would you recomend I feed my fuzzy mushroom and what's the best thing to feed it?

 

[babyb]

i had a huge( size of a dinner plate) mushroom and i would feed it once a week a piece of krill and i grew like an inch every two weeks, but one day i fragged it and it melted i was so sad it was my fav coral

 

[vicegrip]

Pretty cool.

there is a pic on one of swf's boards with a mushroom closing around a snail.

 

[azfishgal]

Originally Posted by vicegrip
Pretty cool.

there is a pic on one of swf's boards with a mushroom closing around a snail.
OH MY!

I had to show my husband tonight when I feed the tank. I was a little afraid the shroom wouldn't do it again. But as soon as I put the food on him he closed right up. VERY COOL!

 

[reefkprz]

once a week would be fine, twice a week would be ok too, you could feed him everyday if you wanted to, just remember added food is added bioload (read as poop) just like a fish, minus the swimming room required.
any meaty foods would work, shrimp, clam, mysis, squid, whitefish, etcetera.

 

[saltn00b]

i thought they look like shrooms normally tho? little stalk and a big cap...

 

[azfishgal]

Originally Posted by saltn00b
i thought they look like shrooms normally tho? little stalk and a big cap...
I guess it's all how you see it.

My fuzzy shroom looks more like a fuzzy pancake when it's fully open, and my red shrooms, well not sure what they look like, but not mushrooms. Of course now that I've seen my fuzzy shroom closed up a few times he looks more like a pomegranate.

 

[vicegrip]

Originally Posted by azfishgal
I guess it's all how you see it.

My fuzzy shroom looks more like a fuzzy pancake when it's fully open, and my red shrooms, well not sure what they look like, but not mushrooms. Of course now that I've seen my fuzzy shroom closed up a few times he looks more like a pomegranate.

Mushrooms may be different all around the states.
In Wisconsin we also have mushrooms that can look fuzzy.

 

[azfishgal]

Originally Posted by vicegrip
Mushrooms may be different all around the states.
In Wisconsin we also have mushrooms that can look fuzzy.
This is true. All the ones I've seen have very round tops. I have yet to see a "fuzzy" one.

 

[vicegrip]

Originally Posted by azfishgal
This is true. All the ones I've seen have very round tops. I have yet to see a "fuzzy" one.

I just happen to have some pics for you.
This one , not fuzzy but, looks to me like a cluster of
salt water mushroom. They grow on dead oak stumps.

Here are some that look kind of fuzzy. They grow all over wet mulch.

What do you think?

 

[azfishgal]

Wow, those are great pics. Thanks for sharing. I guess now I know where they got the "mushroom" idea. I'll have to show these pics to my husband because he couldn't understand why they called them mushrooms either.

 

[saltn00b]

you arizonians are funne !

 

[azfishgal]

Originally Posted by saltn00b
you arizonians are funne !

I'm here to entertain you. When I lived in California we would get mushrooms in our lawn, but like I said, they were the ones with round tops. Here in the Arizona dry climate they are a little hard to come by.