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velvetelvis
03/25/2010, 06:12 PM
I've been looking at a huge (about 4-5" across) hairy mushroom (not an elephant-ear mushroom; I think this one is a kind of rhodactis) at my LFS as a possible anemone substitute for my ocellaris. I don't entirely trust it though, having seen pictures of similar corals eating fish (there's a picture of a huge one eating a Banggai cardinal in Eric Borneman's book). Any experiences (even secondhand) with this?

And is there any way to ask about something called a "hairy mushroom" without feeling like you're asking for a bunch of bad dirty jokes? :D

bues0022
03/25/2010, 08:12 PM
My former pair of Onyx clowns being hosted by an entire rock of hairy mushrooms:

http://inlinethumb26.webshots.com/46809/2208572580085114583S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2208572580085114583gKzCpf)

http://inlinethumb23.webshots.com/47254/2043970250085114583S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2043970250085114583BIfxAV)

http://inlinethumb25.webshots.com/45656/2625350940085114583S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2625350940085114583UDldKY)

TheSurgeon
03/26/2010, 08:53 AM
I have a tomato that hosts in one. At first the mushroom wasnt really thrilled by the idea but its since come around to it.

BonsaiNut
03/26/2010, 03:03 PM
If the mushroom can catch a clown, it will eat it. It's not daytime that you need to worry about - it's night. The larger the mushroom the greater the risk. I no longer keep elephant ear shrooms because they ate clowns like popcorn.