Help! Mushrooms spreading BIG time!

ScubaRW4 · 10-04-2007, 11:55 PM

I have five different strains of mushroom corals in my 75-gallon tank. These guys have easily quadrupled in number during the past 2 months. I have some that are starting to invade my gorgonian colonies. How do I remove them, from places I don't want them to be, without ending up with smooshed mushroom bits all over my tank? Is there a way to get individual ones to just "let go?" The couple that I need to move have a tight hold on the rocks they are on.
Thanks in advance,
Bob

lcstorc · 10-04-2007, 11:57 PM

Can you put the rock in a higher flow area or shaded under an overhang? I have had shrooms detach for both of those reasons.

ScubaRW4 · 10-05-2007, 12:06 AM

I can't really move the rock........it's on the top of the pile and the tank is filled with densely populated rock, making it next to impossible to move anything. It is in a difficult place to get a good current flowing on him (dead-center of the tank, facing the front), but I can try putting a powerhead on the front glass and directing the flow, best I can, against the invader. I hope the gorgonians can wait out the high current flow. :-)
Thanks
Bob

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ScubaRW4 Fire Coral Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 70 View Gallery Karma Komment	Help! Mushrooms spreading BIG time! I have five different strains of mushroom corals in my 75-gallon tank. These guys have easily quadrupled in number during the past 2 months. I have some that are starting to invade my gorgonian colonies. How do I remove them, from places I don't want them to be, without ending up with smooshed mushroom bits all over my tank? Is there a way to get individual ones to just "let go?" The couple that I need to move have a tight hold on the rocks they are on. Thanks in advance, Bob __________________ "The only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once" -Albert Einstein

10-04-2007, 11:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 26,433 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Help! Mushrooms spreading BIG time! Can you put the rock in a higher flow area or shaded under an overhang? I have had shrooms detach for both of those reasons. __________________ Peace LYNN Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Lynn's frag tank experiment A reef tank is like a race car. The faster you go the harder you crash.

10-05-2007, 12:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
ScubaRW4 Fire Coral Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 70 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Help! Mushrooms spreading BIG time! I can't really move the rock........it's on the top of the pile and the tank is filled with densely populated rock, making it next to impossible to move anything. It is in a difficult place to get a good current flowing on him (dead-center of the tank, facing the front), but I can try putting a powerhead on the front glass and directing the flow, best I can, against the invader. I hope the gorgonians can wait out the high current flow. :-) Thanks Bob __________________ "The only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once" -Albert Einstein

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