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zlwags85
04/20/2006, 12:15 PM
I have never seen exactly how mushrooms look when they reproduce. I have a mushroom that has moved about 2 inches from where it was and it is still attatched but now it is stretched out on the rock. Is this eventually going to split and reproduce?
blooper74
04/20/2006, 12:27 PM
That is what my shrooms have been doing. The mother head stretches way out shrivles up a bit and falls off leaving a new shroom in its place. The shrooms that fall off have all been colecting in the back of my tank, where I now have a shroom forest.
Benny Z
04/20/2006, 12:37 PM
yup, that's how it works.

you can also take a mushroom, cut it with a razor or stainless scissors at the base where it is attached to the rock, and then cut it in half (or more pieces) through the mouth. put the pieces in a rubbermaid container with a gravel covering and they will attach to a piece of gravel and become full mushrooms. the tiny piece that you left attached to the original rock will also grow into another mushroom.
blooper74
04/20/2006, 12:45 PM
That sounds so midevel though. Texas chainsaw masacre at zlwags place woohoo.
zlwags85
04/20/2006, 01:04 PM
Yea i read some posts on cutting them, but it just doesnt seem right to cut up a mushroom like a pizza and stick it with toothpicks :) Im glad to see these finally starting to reproduce, they have been in the tank for about 2 months. on a side note the xenia frag i got at the same time has probally trippled
brad23
04/20/2006, 01:06 PM
Once they start splitting they don't stop.
blooper74
04/20/2006, 01:09 PM
Yeha I agree with you Brad. Once they go the gooooooooo.
gabrito
04/20/2006, 01:24 PM
be careful if it's a ricordia because they spit when u cut them.
swegyptian
04/20/2006, 01:29 PM
They do go nuts eventually. I had one as a hitchhiker, for about a year he did nothing. Then two months ago it split, and now i have at least 6 or 7 tiny ones on their way up.
blooper74
04/20/2006, 01:33 PM
If you want to know about mushroom takeover ask tcottle.
tcottle
04/20/2006, 05:04 PM
Surprsingly I had a mushroom crash (the blue ones) over a 3 day period. During a business trip to boot. Came home and 90% of the buggers were gone! They dumped a bunch of excess nutrients in the water so I had a red slime problem for a while.

Up until then I did not think that you could kill a mushroom

And no I do not want any offers for replacements :D
blooper74
04/20/2006, 05:47 PM
LOL sorry to hear about the crash Todd
llewoh05
04/20/2006, 08:06 PM
well i just got one from eddie77. it wasn't doing to good in his tank, so may it will do better in mine. its got a bunch of colors mixed in it. i will post pics tomorrow.