Mushroom spawning ?

[Rich-n-poor]

OK I have been propagating my mushrooms using the slice and dice technique. Today was my third attempt and since I have had 100% survivial in the frags, I decided to do a BIG shroom for a change.

When I sliced the pedal disc from its attaching piece of rock I found what has to be an egg mass of about 40 eggs. GRRRR>>>> makes me wish I had chosen a small one as usual because I think this shroom was about to spawn.

i dont know whether to be happy because it evidently was doing well enough to spawn or mad because I think I probably wasted the eggs seperating the shroom from the rock.

I placed the shroom eggmass and all in my normal growout container. A 3 inch pvc endcap with some live sand covered with wedding veil in the bottom of my tank.

I have several other large purple shrooms about the same size. My question is are they about to spawn too ? will one spawning cause the others to spawn ? Do the eggs have any chance of survivial ?

I I usually leave the shroom pieces in the cup for about ten days til the attach to some sand and get a round shape then superglue the sand to a rock.

What should I do ????

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[FishHead1]

Why cut'em up? Mushrooms multiply so fast on their own...

 

[bowser]

I have seen on TV (like National Geographic), where one or two corals start spawning and it triggers the whole colony to spawn, whether this applies to mushrooms too, I can't say.
I have never heard of slicing and dicing mushrooms for propagation. Even though right now I don't need to do this (I'm running out of room as it is), this is a good thing to know for the future! Thanks Rich-n-poor!!
BTW, when you initally slice the base (off the rock), does another mushroom grow out of that?

 

[Rich-n-poor]

if you leave enough pedal disc yes. The trick is to not cut up the shroom to small 4 pieces is what i get from an average size shroom. Cut thru the center so each piece has part of the central mouth put them in a protective place such as a pvc endcap and wait about 10 days they will round out and attach to sang just glue the sand to some rock.

There is a page called the coral propagation page I wish i could post the link for you.
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[Carpentersreef]

Egg mass from a shroom?? I thought they only reproduced via fission or laceration.
What genus are you talking about? (Actinodiscus, Amplexidiscus, Discosoma or Rhodactis?)
Or what's the common name?

Mitch

 

[davelin315]

I doubt you saw an egg mass from a mushroom. My guess is if they were actually eggs, you've got a parasite living in your mushroom. I don't think that mushrooms have "eggs" to begin with, but if they do, you would not be able to count them.

 

[Rich-n-poor]

they are purple mushroom , bullseye maybe I will find you name when I have time.

I recall researching on other sites where i found the propagation technique. On one site they had a picture of a shroom expelling an egg mass. excellent picture. this looks exactly the same as that picture but the mass was still inside the shroom near the base of the pedal disc.

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[Nameless]

I'm not sure where I found this site, but I think it was on reefs.org under links... Anyway, this has PHENOMENAL propogation information, esp about corals.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6279/Raise.html