Overrun with mushrooms

[Saldarya]

Any suggestions on removing the multitude of shrooms that have gone wild in the tank. If I remove the rock and cut the shrooms off at the base with an exacto knife, will that work, or will the bits remaining just regrow? Thanks in advance.

Bobby

[Fishy Business]

Not sure. I do beleive they would just grow back. Let the experts chime in...


Send me some shrooms!!!

[vest0830]

A buddy of mine just scrapes them off with a plastic scraper.
They grow back slowly but it does do the trick for the time being....

[Brock Fluharty]

Yeah, i'll take some too! Have any pics?

[ScotchMaster]

You need to chisel the rock under them to completely get rid of them...If you leave any part of them on the rock a new shroom will grow

[Saldarya]

Ugh.....

Let the iradication begin!! Thanks for the helpful thoughts and comments. Here is a pic of the tank and the guilty shrooms....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/Rudro1/CIMG1922.jpg

[Fishy Business]

That is an awesone tank. I think everything looks great(even the shrooms) but hey...Im a newb. :hmm6:

[Shrine26]

I'll second that!!! I think your tank looks great with the mushrooms. Mo diversity is mo better! If you don't like the mushrooms, I'll be more than happy to take them off your hands!:D

[Brock Fluharty]

You don't llook overwhelmed with mushrooms at all! I think your tank looks great! For square tanks, that type of aquascaping is the coolest IMO. Having a small island like that in the middle. Awesome...

Brock F.

P.S. My space bar doesn't work very well lol.

[bradleyj]

That's not overrun, This is...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/tileman/My%20mushrooms/100_5142Large.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/tileman/100_8213Large.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/tileman/100_7645Large.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/tileman/My%20Aquarium/100_6478Large.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/tileman/My%20Aquarium/100_6479Large.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/tileman/My%20Aquarium/100_6480Large.jpg

[Saldarya]

LOL, I dont feel so bad now!!! Thanks for the kind words all!

Bobby

[CraigG]

Wow Bradley that is beautiful!

In the second pic on the upper left side, what is the amazing purple/blue/teal coral? that thing is awesome!

[bradleyj]

Thanks, That coral is an acropora Valida. bought as a 1" frag from a reefer in my club.

[denkigroove]

Hey Saldarya, glad to see you got the tank up and running. How was the road trip back?

Dude, I didn't realize it but I strained my back after we finished moving the tank to your car! I could barely move for a whole week!

Well good to see that all the corals made it back safely. Hope you enjoy the tank!

[Chad Vossen]

if you dont like that many mushrooms, get some more corals that sting. that would keep them from spreading to much. my green star polyps dont seem to grow well when they meet my colony of yellow polyps.

[sedorusc]

brad definitely has a shroom issue, but hey I like them too.

[Ryanqk]

Hey if anyone has shrooms that they dont want ill be glad to take em off your hands too! I've got plenty of room for some, been trying to get them to overpopulate but mine just wont do it.
PM me!
Ryan

[perpetual98]

kalk paste should take care of them. Cut them off of the rock and then paste the stump.

FWIW, there's an LFS by me that has a 210 that is all softies and it's 90% shrooms. They're densly packed but the tank looks amazing to me because they all blow around in the flow.