Removing mushrooms

[Anonymous]

Somehow from the dark recesses of my tank I overlooked a mushroom when moving corals and rock to my 215 a year and some ago. The one patch is going ballistic and though pretty they crowded out a 4"x5" patch of zoanthids and are now smothering a powder blue caulastrea and a few plating montiporas. Not really keen on killing them but if I have to I was going to kalk them - have tried directing a powerhead at them for a few minutes but they just shrivel up against the rock.

Any good preferably nonlethal methods people have for removing these?

 

[Anonymous]

Take the rock out would insure getting them out. You couls scrape them off. If you do that make sure you take the a part of the rock that is under them out also. Any little piece you leave will regrow.

 

[ARFF fireman82]

I was told acouple years back when I was propogating shrooms to take a fresh razor blade and to cut the shrooms from the rock and then tie the shroom propgation with a peice of sewing thread and it will attach itself onto the rock over time and begin growing. I did it several times with success, someone else might have a better idea.

 

[shr00m]

hes asking how to kill them not how to grow more.

 

[usafresq1]

Not really keen on killing them but if I have to I was going to kalk them - have tried directing a powerhead at them for a few minutes but they just shrivel up against the rock.

Any good preferably nonlethal methods people have for removing these?

 

[shr00m]

cutting them off isnt a non-lethal way of getting rid of them, its a way of making more, the base grows back... the only non-lethal way to get rid of them is to remove the rocks.