How to get rid of mushrooms?

[calvin415]

Anyone know how to get rid of mushrooms? I've tried kalkwasser, syphon, ricordia... I have an SPS dominated tank and a few hitch hikers are trying to now take over!!!

[dan10342]

blast em with high light. they def dont like high light.

other than that... they are invincible always coming back.

Perhaps a torch coral could totally sting em out?


on a more serious note, you could chisel em off the rock they are on... and do whatever with them after. you would need to make sure you get the whole mushroom and its base so it wont grow back.

[mr chris]

what i did was put them under constant high water flow and when they started to pop of rock . I pulled them of .This does not always work .

[SI_rEEfer]

I am in the process of trying boiling Vinegar. I went to my local pharmacy and purchased some syringes. I chose the Vinegar patch over injecting them with Kalk wasser because I was concerned about the Kalk clogging the syringe.

So far, second night, I have had mixed results. After injecting 3, two fell off the rock by the next day and one is shriveled up. I injected that third one again tonight as well as two others. I have quite a few so I guess I will just have to be patient.

I originally got rid of most of them by trading my live rock at a local fish/reef store.

[ininerider]

Kalk paste has done the job for me....

[romsoccer12]

how to get rid of shrooms? eat em =D

[Achilles BC]

Get a piece of Hydrophora and rub it all over them. It has killed a few fuzzy purple shrooms for me...

[ginnboy]

send them to me lol or use joes juice

[fishbait2]

^ What you dont send to him, send to me.

[ReefiusMaxiumus]

injecting with boiling water or maybe stinging to death with an elegence

[Marsht01]

Injecting them with kalk works pretty well.

[reeflord]

move your sps off the rocks affected and take the mushroom rock and boil it......

[jamesdong009]

I've used kalk paste in the past and it works wonders. Just be careful with about your pH rising to quickly.

Another way would be to just cut a small piece of rock the mushroom is attached to. Make sure it's all off, otherwise it will just grow back.


Get a piece of Hydrophora and rub it all over them. It has killed a few fuzzy purple shrooms for me...

Wouldn't you need to run carbon if you tried this method because of chemical warfare? Sounds pretty interesting though. I should try this next time.

[beachbabies]

how funny, here you are trying to kill your shrooms off and i'm trying so hard to keep mine alive!

[spleify]

Eric, I have have really good luck with the boiling vinegar aproach.

Get a syrange with a needle on it and inject them with the boiling vinegar. Some died right away, some needed a second and some even a third zapping, but eventually I was able to iradicate them all.

[onionbagle]

how much kalk is too much? I have a nano tank and im concerned about mixing a paste. The directions say to mix in gallons of water. We are injecting a concentrate...right?

[lloydkeller]

I inject a mixture of vineger and lime juice

[hoganrj1]

What kind of syringes do you use. I'm going to trade in the large rocks with the high quantities, but I want to get rid of the few straglers.

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[1904]

never heard of someone trying to get rid of mushrooms xenia maybe. Id say just mess with them and they will eventually stress out and die.

[Phildean]

Kalk works for me

[rogersb]

I wasn't trying to get rid of mushrooms, but I picked up a rabbitfish this weekend and he has wiped out my regular mushrooms in just a couple of days. I'm no expert and the shop had him labelled as assorted rabbitfish, but he looks most similar to siganus puellus. He did not bother my giant green hairy mushrooms, sps, acans, duncans, chalice, or zoas, just the run of the mill mushrooms. Quite an attractive fish and always out in the open.

[onionbagle]

so i went to giant and got some lemon concentrate. (the kind in a plastic lemon) some died on the first injection others take a few more doses. So far ive seen good results.

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[mak3mydae]

You could try aiptasia X and shove the syringe into the mouth of the shroom and just fill em up with it... you could try the same with kalk instead of just putting it on the mushroom but pumping it full of it....

[Reefer Brian]

Pressure washer, I used on on my LR plagued with Majano's.

[Marsht01]

I dont mind a few..but when they start popping up in places Id rather they didnt, I just kalk em. I do the same thing with GSP..I stab into it and inject kalk under the mat. Typically it takes a few times to get it all though.

[fishguy84]

Super Mario eats mushrooms like no tomorrow.

I do the same thing as Marsht01. Kalk is pickling lime, available at the grocery store. Inject that into, under, or on whatever you want to get rid of, and then let nature take its course

[lloydkeller]

lemen juice injected works

[Bob 1000]

Calcium Hydroxide(Kalkwasser).. You could even do this in the tank.. Just not an overload of Kalk all at once..