What is the best approach to getting an abundant amount of green mushrooms off of some LR? I know I can stick it in some freshwater for a bit, but I have so many little feather dusters and sponges on the LR as well and I dont want to hurt them.
Getting mushrooms off the rock
- Thread starter e_baer
- Start date
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
Good luck. They are more of a pest then aiptasia. Nothing eats them and kalk seems to just make them shrink for a few days. They are real tough to take off the rocks
- Location
- Ozone Park, Queens
I had a nano and had to get rid of all the rocks and start fresh. They spread fast. Had a few hundred take over
- Location
- GARDEN CITY
Try hydrogen peroxide
With a pair of bone cutters, you can remove the mushrooms with a tiny piece of rock attached and sell them, rather than killing them.
Or you could sell the entire rock/s to someone on here or trade it in at your LFS for new rock/store credit.
Why kill corals??
Or you could sell the entire rock/s to someone on here or trade it in at your LFS for new rock/store credit.
Why kill corals??
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
Its the old MMmmm cow tastes but dont kill the pretty deer syndrom
Cows are ugly, deer are pretty. Aiptasia is a anemone its ugly and kills corals. Mushrooms are real pretty and kills corals. Kill the anemone and save the pretty shrooms LOL
IDK... Could there be 'palytoxin' in the air by burning them?... Might not be safe !
im with albano sounds like a bad i dea
if you can remove the rock just carefully scrape all you can with a razor. then get a chisel and hammer and try to chip away any last strong holds.
if you cant remove the rock. ughhh, its a pita jut buy some new rock:scratch:
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
I dont think there is palytoxin in shrooms. I could be wrong though
Maybe not, but people may decide to 'burn off' some palys if they're on the rocks also!
I have them in my tank and it seems like over night they are everywhere. I have a alge mower I dont mind them but dont like if they mess up my sps so what I do is I hit it on the edge with mower on the side that I want it to stop growing it seems to keep them at bay without killing them!!!
- Location
- massachusettts #1 tank
Blade
I will try hydrogen peroxide on the rocks I cant remove. I have already tried to scrape some off with a razor, with little luck. They are in the crevices and super hard to get off. I have a soldering iron already and will try that on a smaller rock and rinse it off in fresh SW.
- Location
- manhattan
Why don't you just put the covered rock up for trade or sale? This way you can buy some new live rock? Or even trade for like size rock. There has to be some member who likes the look of a shroom covered rock.
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