Mushrooms….

[chinaman34cents]

I recently bought some purple mushrooms and one of the fell of the rock and has been floating around the tank. I’ve added iodine and trace elements and still it wont attach to the rocks. its been about two weeks. Please give me some ideas on how I can reattach to the rest of them.


thanks
david

 

[Anonymous]

Hi chinman, and welcome to Reefs.org!

Mushrooms usually float around and eventually land somewhere they will be happy on there on. You could use a rubberband to attach it to a small piece of rubble. You could then later attach that rubble to a larger rock at a location of your choice. Another way to get shrooms to attach to rubble is to just put some rubble in a small dish and sit that on the bottom of your tank and put the shroom in the dish. It should attach within a few weeks.

Louey

 

[chinaman34cents]

thanks very much

 

[ji]

I bought a Ricordia polyp yesterday and it was attached to
three small pieces of rubble. I tried placing it on a rock,
figuring it would attach. About 5 minutes later a crab came out
and grabbed the thing and pulled it behind the rocks.

I took apart the rocks, managed to save the polyp and removed
the crab. I superglued the rubble the polyp was attached to
to a rock.

This morning the polyp is gone.

Any ideas?

 

[hdtran]

Would one of the moderators kindly move this post over to General Discussion where it will see more traffic?

 

[wade1]

Superglueing soft corals typically does not work. About the only way to do it reliably is to place the frag/piece/polyp between two chunks of rubble rock. It will extend out from the pieces and attach to them. Other ways of attaching: rubberbands (not suggested as they cut the coral into 2), netting (like bridal veil), toothpick thru it into a hole in the rock.

Wade