mseepman's 16" starfire nano

kien · #1 01-15-2010, 07:04 AM

wow, you weren't kidding, you have a lot of mushrooms in there! Are they all the same species? What colour are they ?

mseepman · #2 01-15-2010, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

wow, you weren't kidding, you have a lot of mushrooms in there! Are they all the same species? What colour are they ?

Haha...and that's with me culling every week. Painful I know.

They are the blue mushrooms that seem to be incredibly hardy.

new but handy · #3 01-15-2010, 03:49 PM

hey man how's it going
I have got a 3" yellow tang you could try for a while to see if he will eat it

kien · #4 01-15-2010, 03:50 PM

I think that moving your tank to the new 280 might be a good opportunity for an intervention. Before you aquascape the 280 just get in there, tear it down and scrub those rocks clean.

mseepman · #5 01-15-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

I think that moving your tank to the new 280 might be a good opportunity for an intervention. Before you aquascape the 280 just get in there, tear it down and scrub those rocks clean.

Yeah you are right but man, I don't relish the thought. When you do this...how do you deal with the other corals attached to that rock?

Can you tell I'm just dreading this.

Bugsy · #6 01-15-2010, 04:17 PM

Hello is this slime algae?

mseepman · #7 01-15-2010, 04:19 PM

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Hello is this slime algae?

Missing the picture on this post.

kien · #8 01-15-2010, 04:19 PM

I remove all corals from the rock. It ends up being a complete reaquascaping nightmare-um.. I mean chore. Everything is removed save for the mushrooms. I even had to pull out the chisel to remove my favourite corals from infested rocks

I feel your pain. Oddly, even after all that effort I went and threw a rock of blue mushrooms into my new 150g tank

Surprisingly they are keeping to themselves but I have had to give away a few prunings.. that reminds me, I should prune this weekend.

The other thing you can do is just sell the darn mushroom rock. There are lots of people out there who'd be more than happy to take it off your hands I'm sure.

mseepman · #9 01-15-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

I remove all corals from the rock. It ends up being a complete reaquascaping nightmare-um.. I mean chore. Everything is removed save for the mushrooms. I even had to pull out the chisel to remove my favourite corals from infested rocks

I feel your pain. Oddly, even after all that effort I went and threw a rock of blue mushrooms into my new 150g tank

Surprisingly they are keeping to themselves but I have had to give away a few prunings.. that reminds me, I should prune this weekend.

The other thing you can do is just sell the darn mushroom rock. There are lots of people out there who'd be more than happy to take it off your hands I'm sure.

I just can't imagine doing this. What about my encrusted SPS? Yikes. I will be buying a lot of Eco-rox for the big tank and I was hoping that my 90lbs of Liverock from the current tank would be sufficient to seed the system. I also don't have and have never had aptasia...so my hopes included not adding any other LR as it might have this pest.

mseepman · #10 01-15-2010, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by new but handy

hey man how's it going
I have got a 3" yellow tang you could try for a while to see if he will eat it

Thanks for the offer...but the tank is only 16" x 16" and that would be torture to a tang. I see that the LFS has some 1" Blue tangs in so maybe I might look at that.