Mushroom Invasion

[FishHead1]

Now that my tank is over three years old - things have really started to thrive!
I owe my entire tank's success to what I've learned on these boards.
Thanks to all!

Now the problem. My mushrooms continue to multiply and cover a lot of my rock. They are now getting to a Galaxia and Frogspawn and these two don't like it. The Galaxia extends dozens of long arms in an attempt to fight back. Sometimes the closest mushrooms are all shriveled and appear to be losing the fight, but now it looks like the mushrooms are getting the upper hand and causing recession at the edge of the Galaxia. Today they started to get to a portion of my Frogspawn.

Do I kalk paste the few mushrooms? I'd rather not. I'd rather not rearrange everything either.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[brandon4291]

I ended up removing all the standard brown corallimorphs from the ReefBowl because they too were attacking my caulastrea LPS. The ones that migrated onto the glass were easy, just a scrape with a razor blade. The ones on the rock were very tricky, I had to rip them out with hemostats and go back over it twice to get the little ones who popped up from leftover tissue. They everntually did not come back, and problem solved. I still left two blue mushrooms on the other side, these don't seem to reproduce as fast in my tank.

I don't want to advocate killing our organisms at a whim, but really these assorted corallimorphs are weeds and it is easy to captively grow them, so its not like Im advocating buying and then destroying a gonipora.

If you have a particular specimen you want to save or trade, take the rock out and chip the 'shroom off with a hammer and screwdriver. This is how I get ricordeas into my pico reefs without tearing them from their base rock.

Don't worry a bit about poisoning your system from tearing the shrooms. Yes they will emit a cloud while doing so, but Ive done this repeatedly in a one gallon reef and it never harms any LPS or SPS (with post water change of course) so I know your tank can handle it. Good luck on dealing with the shroom invasion!

 

[liquid]

You've got a couple choices:

* do nothing
* kill/remove the shrooms in the area that's causing you problems
* re-arrange the tank

You'll have to choose what you want to do.

You could razor blade off the shroom and drop it onto some liverock in a propagation tank and then once it attaches, take it to your LFS for sale. After cutting the shroom off, kalk paste the remainder of the tissue to make sure that it's 100% dead. This is the route that I'd probably take.

Shane

 

[reefann]

I think re-arranging the tank is a good start, but eventually you will have to do some "weeding". With Brandons tank he really has no room to re-arrange.
JJ
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[Syris]

I had the same problem with mushrooms and yellow polyps everywhere. What I finally did was trade in the LR with a LFS for even trade of the same wieght of LR plus store credit for the shrooms and polyps that were attached.
This is an extreme measure but in my case it was right for me.
I now keep a few mushrooms but they are on their own little island of LR to keep them from invading again
Good luck

 

[4angel]

I thought that the Galaxia and frog spawn were agressive enough to hold there own against shrooms.
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