how to get rid of mushrooms - Page 2

dendro982 · #26 01/18/2007, 06:09 AM

There is an interesting suggestion, that works for a xenia - may be it could be applicable for mushrooms.

Mislav · #27 01/18/2007, 06:45 AM

tnx, i'll try with hot water and kalk paste

u418936 · #28 01/19/2007, 09:59 AM

I have way too many mushrooms, too--Even my clams are covered in shrooms. You definately don't want to kill too many shrooms at once, because you'll pollute your tank.

55semireef · #29 01/19/2007, 08:22 PM

I would just switch out your liverock. Don't do it all at once because you will upset the biological balance in your tank. Just trade out the rock with your lfs slowly and eventually you will have zero mushrooms. That's what I would do. I would think it would be a pain in the you know what to take a razor blade or inject every shroom with some chemicle that doesn't even belong in your tank in the first place. I would just switch out the rock.

Reefdiver72 · #30 01/21/2007, 07:14 PM

WISH I HAD YOURE PROBLEM I would sell them there getting 2 dollars a polyp here in Ohio

Mislav · #31 01/22/2007, 06:24 AM

@u418936

so what do you do with them?

u418936 · #32 01/22/2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by Mislav
@u418936

so what do you do with them?

I exchange the rock my shrooms are on for bare rock at my LFS. I wish there were an easier way. Joe's juice works really well on polyps, which were also overtaking my rock, but it doesn't seem to kill shrooms.

It's illegal to get hypodermic needles without a prescription (in NY, at least), so I never tried injecting my shrooms with calcium.

The next time I upgrade my tank, I'm getting all new live rock. Mushrooms and polyps grow way too fast and cause serious problems for clams and hard corals.

clayspst · #33 01/22/2007, 01:07 PM

Joes juice

Reet15 · #34 01/22/2007, 07:01 PM

U41 - go to your local drug store and ask them for syringes for baby medicine - those work great for injecting unwanteds in the tank, and they'll usually give you 1 or 2 without question.

marinerules · #35 01/22/2007, 07:19 PM

i wish mine would grow faster, they op0en up real good , but they dont grow really big , except for two of them , I started with 10 red shrooms about a year ago and now I have 15

Mr Bojangles · #36 01/22/2007, 09:59 PM

ok I have tired everything my self, and I am about to move the whole rock! My LFS is taking it from me, my last option is to cover everything so they get no light

fishaholic911 · #37 01/22/2007, 11:16 PM

Joes juice works for me.

Mr Bojangles · #38 01/24/2007, 09:46 PM

well here is a pic of my own shroom hell! I was able to take the entire rock out and a few others that had a bunch on it. The ones I couldn't get off I cut the shroom and scrubbed the stump with a cut down tooth brush. I hope I got them all!

billr · #39 01/24/2007, 10:01 PM

Send them to me too. I will pay you something for them plus shipping...........

Mr Bojangles · #40 01/24/2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally posted by billr
Send them to me too. I will pay you something for them plus shipping...........

Sorry its at my LFS, these guys you can find anywhere, plus you will want to get rid of them like I am

u418936 · #41 01/25/2007, 09:50 AM

To my surprise, I killed some shrooms with Joe's juice last night. I had to turn off all my pumps, so that the current wouldn't move the paste around. I was also lucky, because my fish left the paste alone. They usually try to eat it lol.

It's hard to kill shrooms with Joe's juice, becuase unlike polyps, shrooms don't actually try to eat the paste.

billr · #42 01/26/2007, 12:49 AM

Still wouldn't mind having some. Don't have any at the moment to speak of..............

paeSona · #43 01/28/2007, 04:24 PM

thts crazy man cut a bunch off ill pay for them and ill pay for shipping 11378 and i want your problemm lmaoo

russ49merc · #44 02/01/2007, 07:49 PM

buy a dog face puffer he will eat all of them and then just get him out and return him to store

supervdl · #45 02/02/2007, 01:02 AM

I have hairy mushrooms and they spread like crazy. The hairy ones are tough to get off the rocks. The bluegreen smoth one are relatively easy to pull off the rock. Several rocks already made it to the LFS.

Mislav · #46 02/02/2007, 03:45 AM

@russ49merc

Are you sure about dog face puffer. Did you see this fish eating mushrooms? Will this fish eat other corals or prefeer other corals to mushrooms?

russ49merc · #47 02/02/2007, 11:19 AM

yeah I had a dog face and tried a cheap rock of mushrooms to see what would happen. and inless than an hour he had ate them right off of it. not sure about other corals

timrandlerv10 · #48 02/06/2007, 01:53 AM

'just get him out'

THAT is the part I haven't mastered yet...

KyleP · #49 02/09/2007, 12:53 AM

If you can, put your shrooms face down in your sandbed. They will be devoured real quick.

Mislav · #50 02/09/2007, 03:43 AM

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They will be devoured real quick.

By what? You mean puffer or something else?