Eradicating green mushrooms

[monza]

Here's my experience with them, a mushroom was one of my first "corals" I bought for my reef and after 15+ years of them growing and spreading, trying every thing for years to get rid of them, I shut down that tank and bought all new rock. They are a plague.

Good luck, IMO nothing gets rid of them, they just seem to spread harder and faster the more you try and kill them. I still have all the rock, just waiting until I have the desire to give it all a acid bath.

I still have a purple tang from that tank, he's been around for 15+- years.

[vanreefer]

Inject them with something acidic at their base at night... I usually use lemon juice.... Then use a turkey baster to suck them off the rock in the morning. You may need to modify the size of the opening depending on the size of the shroom. It is nearly impossible to get all of the shrooms out of any tank tho

[xenon]

Good luck!

Ever see guys on youtube putting mushrooms in a blender?

It just makes them multiply like crazy.

[Reef Pilot]

Both my frogspawn and my bubble coral make quick work of any mushrooms on a rock, or anywhere near them. Gets rid of the nuisance palys as well. Unfortunately, can't have my entire reef covered with frogspawn and bubble coral...

[AquaPin]

I have had good success injecting vinegar into the stem of the mushroom. Killed off lots of floaters that landed in areas not mushroom designated.

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by AquaPin

I have had good success injecting vinegar into the stem of the mushroom. Killed off lots of floaters that landed in areas not mushroom designated.

What do you use to inject the vinegar into the mushroom? I tried cutting them off the rock once and it made a h--l of a mess in my tank and helped to spread them more.

[GoFish]

A bit tricky to obtain unless you're diabetic but I used a small 1ml syringe with a hypodermic needle, somewhere around a 25 gauge tip. You need a prescription however. My local clinic said they don't have any so try a pharmacy, the pharmacy clerk was verrrry reluctant to give me one, this was back when I needed one to inject earthworks with air so they'd float for trout fishing. She originally said no, but as I walked away she whispered me back and just gave me one with a wink
For vinegar and muriatic acid the small tips work really well but if you're using aptasia x you may need a larger tip as there's some sediment that will clog the tip before you have a change to get any liquid out

So either be kind and explain to your local pharmacist what you need one for (cross your fingers), or try eBay

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by xenon

Good luck!

Ever see guys on youtube putting mushrooms in a blender?

It just makes them multiply like crazy.

Ya, I would suggest anything short of physically removing them, anything else will just annoy them into reproducing