Tried another frag... oops :( will this be ok?

farnorth

farnorth

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My last mushroom frag was a success and all of the pieces I cut apart attatched to rock within 5 days

I tried to frag another mushroom today and it was really deep in a pocket of the live rock. I tried to cut it off its stem, but I ended up cutting around the mouth and only had the pieces left around the stem, so none of its mouth. I just cut them up and super glued them straight on to the live rock. Anyone have sucess with shrooms like this?
 
krazekajin

krazekajin

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I have heard that you can take a mushroom and put it in a blender and pour the slop back into a tank and you will get hundreds of new mushrooms from the slop.
 
eaglewonj

eaglewonj

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Originally Posted by KrazeKajin
I have heard that you can take a mushroom and put it in a blender and pour the slop back into a tank and you will get hundreds of new mushrooms from the slop.

lol like that scene with the brooms splinters in fantasia!
is this for real anyone? Do they come back that amazingly? (the shrooms not the brooms)
 
payton 350

payton 350

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good question....i know it's believed when they move and leave a piece of their foot a new shroom will grow so why not??
 
farnorth

farnorth

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Payton, that is a good point if they leave a piece it is supposed to grow... so you know what next time if I have 3 or 4 big ones growing I may just blend it a little and sprinkle it like mushroom fairy dust in my tank
 
bronco300

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im not sure blending it would work...i would think youd basically make it a liquid and kill em...now maybe taking a chopper and doing it that way...but ya never know
 
eaglewonj

eaglewonj

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Originally Posted by Bronco300
im not sure blending it would work...i would think youd basically make it a liquid and kill em...now maybe taking a chopper and doing it that way...but ya never know
Either way someone can make some $ being a mushroom fragger.
 
krazekajin

krazekajin

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yea, I meant a chopper. Not a blender. If you used a blender you would only get a shroom slurpy. Yuck.
However, I have not fragged any mushrooms, but I have fragged some zenia and it is the same. For example, I had a stalk of xenia that was moving and its "foot was attached to two different rocks with a long strand in between. I cut the strand inbetween the two rock and was left with a little glob of xenia foot on one and a good stalk on the other. A few days later, I had minute stalks of xenia growing from the glob.
 
krazekajin

krazekajin

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the easiest way to frag musrooms is to cut the head off and leave the stalk. the stalk will grow a new head and you will have a large head to place somewhere else. This is great when you have a large colony of mushrooms as you can cut off as many heads as you want and still have a colony of stalks that will quickly grow back and you will have all of the heads to make a new colony.
 
payton 350

payton 350

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this almost makes me want to chop up a shroom and see if it works ....i think the tricky part would be to securing it....i mean you could do a panyhose type cloth around a rock and give it time but i just don't know...interesting though
 
krazekajin

krazekajin

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I want too, but I don't have a frag tank set up yet. I am going to be getting a 90g at tax time so I will have a 29g as a frag tank. I want to just have eggcrate in a stair stepped fashion and propogate corals. I am thinking about doing the chopper thing and then putting them in my tank and allowing them to settle without the pumps being on and then turn the pumps on and hope they don't go back into the water column and get sucked out by the filters. I am thinking that if they can settle then they will root and I would have instant mushroom colonys. Might be just a pipe dream, but I do think about it
Or do I would take a good size bowl and put sand and live rock rubble in it and pour all my little mushroom pieces in it and then put bridal vail over it and let it stay that way for a couple of days and then pull out the rock with lots of little mushroom pieces on it. Let it grow for a month or so and sell a good size mushroom cluster.
 
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