swjunkie
Aquarium Advice Freak
How fast do mushrooms multiply? and how do they multiply?
TIA
TIA
mushrooms ???
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The first part of your question cannot be answered really, there are too many variables, water quality, lighting, type of mushroom etc.
If you wanted to divide them, you can frag them yourself. Or you wait until they do it on their own.
If you wanted to divide them, you can frag them yourself. Or you wait until they do it on their own.
swjunkie
Aquarium Advice Freak
my water params are ...
calcium 400
phosphate 0.4
ph 8.0
amonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 10
hyd 1.025
salinity 34
I have 2 coralife 50/50 mini compacts on a 10g.
I have 2 little shrooms that I bought about 5 days ago. and 2 days ago they started what I call stretching. I went out to a few lfs and asked them just to get their opinion one said that they are hungry looking for food so she said I needed some cube food. The place that I bought them from said it sounds like they are multiplying. and that I shouldnt feed them the cube food that they needed kent marine phytoplex. Which by reading the bottles I thought the zooplex would be better. everything that I have read on them says that you can supplement their diet with plankton and micro foods. I just wanted to find out why they are stretching and what it looks like when they are multiplying?
Thanx
calcium 400
phosphate 0.4
ph 8.0
amonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 10
hyd 1.025
salinity 34
I have 2 coralife 50/50 mini compacts on a 10g.
I have 2 little shrooms that I bought about 5 days ago. and 2 days ago they started what I call stretching. I went out to a few lfs and asked them just to get their opinion one said that they are hungry looking for food so she said I needed some cube food. The place that I bought them from said it sounds like they are multiplying. and that I shouldnt feed them the cube food that they needed kent marine phytoplex. Which by reading the bottles I thought the zooplex would be better. everything that I have read on them says that you can supplement their diet with plankton and micro foods. I just wanted to find out why they are stretching and what it looks like when they are multiplying?
Thanx
seaham358
Aquarium Advice Addict
they multiply by moving... When they move on the LR they leave a small piece behind and the grows into a new shroon. Some types can split, one becomes 2.
Feed a shroon cube food?? Find a new LFS. They will get most of what they need from good lighting and water changes. I feed phytoplankton to my tank also.
Shroons will be small one day and open up big the next and anywhere in the middle, mine are really never the same.
Feed a shroon cube food?? Find a new LFS. They will get most of what they need from good lighting and water changes. I feed phytoplankton to my tank also.
Shroons will be small one day and open up big the next and anywhere in the middle, mine are really never the same.
seaham358
Aquarium Advice Addict
melosu58, are you going for a record with that pic?? The record will be how many different posts can I post the same pic in and still have it pertain to the topic 
I think your on 3 posts now?? or is it 4
I think your on 3 posts now?? or is it 4
accorddude
Aquarium Advice Regular
My green mushroom coloney looks a lot like your red one. Very pretty. I dont know what you mean by stretching if you mean opening up thats just part of what they do. I havent fed mine anything.
seaham358
Aquarium Advice Addict
nothing to be sorry about.. I was making a joke.. I love shroons also.. I just got 6 loose purple ones from a friend and they finally mounted themselves on some rubble. They have great color and are easy to care for.
swjunkie
Aquarium Advice Freak
Thanx all for the replies. I have 2 different kinds I have I think a blue one it is purple and blue it came on a piece of rock with about 3 little shrooms on it. they each have their own little stem. Will the whole stem move? They will swell up real big stem and all and then close a little and then go back to normal. Thats what I called stretching. The other one I have is kind of purple with bright green spots on it. It is a single shroom with like a bubble foot. It will stretch its little bubble foot up and out. I love watching these little buggers. They do this little stretch thing in a matter of five minutes and then all back to normal until night time then they go to sleep. It makes my day to wake up and see what they are up too. What is really funny is that they are now in my dreams. I have dreams of the little things stretching all over the place. lol! Also can they be placed directly on the sand bed?
again
thanx guys/gals
PS Melosu58 How long did it take for them to multiply.
BTW great pic!
again
thanx guys/gals
PS Melosu58 How long did it take for them to multiply.
BTW great pic!
jasno999
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I have soem mushrooms and had many of the same questions. This post has helped a lot. However I still don't knwo what a good timefram is for mushrooms to multiply. 1 week, 2 weeks a month??? What is a good guesstimate?
I also finally had some sucess direct feeding my bubble coral. I cut a smal lpiece of raw shrip and put it right near it's mouth after th lights were off for a little while. It actually sort of held on to the piece and it moved it into the mouth cavity.
I had a few little pieces of shrimp left so I placed them on the top of 3 of my mushrooms. Soon afterward the mushroom currled up and cupped the piece of shrimp like a venus fly trap. I am guesign that it was eatign the shrip but I don't know for sure. Is thsi and ok thing to do?
I also finally had some sucess direct feeding my bubble coral. I cut a smal lpiece of raw shrip and put it right near it's mouth after th lights were off for a little while. It actually sort of held on to the piece and it moved it into the mouth cavity.
I had a few little pieces of shrimp left so I placed them on the top of 3 of my mushrooms. Soon afterward the mushroom currled up and cupped the piece of shrimp like a venus fly trap. I am guesign that it was eatign the shrip but I don't know for sure. Is thsi and ok thing to do?
Brenden
Aquarium Advice Addict
melosu is a mushroom junkie. As stated earlier is it entirely dependant on your tank. In my tank a 10 polyp rock will double to 20 in about 1.5-2 months on its own.
As stated earlier is it entirely dependant on your tank. In my tank a 10 polyp rock will double to 20 in about 1.5-2 months on its own.swjunkie
Aquarium Advice Freak
thanx all,
Brenden what is your lighting system on that 525g?
Brenden what is your lighting system on that 525g?
