Things that eat mushrooms Part Deux

[Len]

Okay, I tried a racoon butterfly and that didn't work out I'm sure if I try enough butterflies, one will do the trick and eat my shrooms. I think I'll try another butterfly this weekend, but I hate having to catch and return them a month later.

Any other suggestions? Or better yet, anyone have a known mushroom eater in their tanks they want to sell me?

 

[ricky1414]

why do you not want to have mushroms?

 

[Anonymous]

Because they sting SPS corals, no?

Louey

 

[Len]

I'll see if I have time to snap a pic of my tank tonight. It's over-run with mushrooms and is impossible to extract or kill off with sodium hydroxide. So I'm looking for a natural predator to eat them.

Ya, Louey hit it on the head: they literally occupy half my 120g rock now and sting whatever is around them. I will caution anyone who has mushrooms to keep them in check. One way is to add rubble rock around them so you can remove the rock easily as they start encrouching outwards.

 

[Anonymous]

Lay a frogspawn on it. I believe that the frog will win.

I hate mushrooms too, for this very reason. You can rest assured that I will never purposefully put any shrooms in my next tank. They are hell to eradicate.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

kalk paste, and a toothbrush is the only way I found, I even kept some mushrooms in my wifes trigger tank

 

[shr00m]

musha room

 

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the filefish I featured on the dailies of WWM would eat 'em.. Bob said that it's a known Aiptasia eater.. and now I cannot remember for the LIFE of me what species I'd chosen! Argh!

 

[Anonymous]

Get a big frag of hydnophora and zap all your shrooms with it - never seen any other coral win aginst it.

 

[Mouse]

what about a Bhurgas Nudibaranc, they eat aptasia for sure. Maybee some other nudie would do? Sorry i cant be more help, the Guys at Wet Pets were having some success with copper band Butterflys.

 

[Anonymous]

Len,
Have you posted a question about this at the sea slug forum?

http://www.seaslugforum.net/

 

[Anonymous]

Okay, I tried a racoon butterfly and that didn't work out I'm sure if I try enough butterflies, one will do the trick and eat my shrooms. I think I'll try another butterfly this weekend, but I hate having to catch and return them a month later.

Any other suggestions? Or better yet, anyone have a known mushroom eater in their tanks they want to sell me?

Euell Gibbons! (He's a "thing that eats mushrooms")