Maniacal mushrooms

[kennyman]

Whats the best way to deal with mushrooms when they become invasive? The hairy ones in my tank are ruining amok and starting to bug other things as they spread.

[groan]

could you not Cull the Herd?
maybe its time to frag!

[Zoe]

Yup... frag them and give them away to your fellow Ovassers

[kennyman]

I have gone in there with a pair of extended plant pruners and tried cutting some of the shrooms back. What a mess! Slime everywhere and it left blobs of goo that just grew right back into more mushrooms! Ebil things I tell ya 

Maybe I have to rip rockwork apart and do it in a bucket? I hate disturbing my little tank like that though. Need more Room!

[Zoe]

Yeah, they will grow back, so you need to keep fragging.

Hey, don't knock it... some of us are wishing we'd have enough growth of anything to frag it... 

[Julie]

I have a little mushroom rock which I've had since the beginning, the mushrooms spread wherever I place the rock, so one little rock created 10 atleast 10 more on other pieces of rock.
I may sell the little rock.  Otherwise they will keep multiplying.   

[Zoe]

Does anyone have a magic mushroom that will miraculously survive in my tank? Now THAT would be a miracle, I tell you.

[Julie]

You should be able to grow them Zoe, have you tested your H20 - I find they like to be on a slant.

[Zoe]

Yup... water's fine, everything else grows find... just can't keep a mushroom alive there is one in my tank that is happy. lol.  and a ric. the rest, nope.

[kennyman]

I'd love to trade you a rock of these hairy mushrooms for a few frilly clove polyps! That would help me get rid of some of them atleast 

[groan]

need any xenia? i have lots to trade! (who dosnt!?)

[gvv]

I found that hairy/fuzzy mushroms does not actually like intense light. I have dozens of them in 65G tank with 400W MH and they just don't grow at all, as they are doing in my 90G with 250W and even my office tank with Coralife screw-in 20W CF.

Also, just want to mention that when I'm trying to frag them I have to cut them with the pieces of rock they are sitting on, otherwise it is just impossible do detach them and you are having all the tank in their slime...

Regards

[Julie]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1292929

Good read on mushrooms and nice shot of  mushroom eating rabbit fish.