ricordea mushrooms

[VinnyP]

Let's see a picture of this over ran Ricordea Tank

 

[Gregcoyote]

There are probably about 500 mushrooms here throughout the system.

 

[bskerrichard27]

Holy cow

 

[kdpuffer]

That is insane!!!!!!

 

[VinnyP]

Wow and how many of them did you buy or start off with, how big is the tank, how long did that take.... Holy cow that's crazy

 

[Gregcoyote]

I bought about a dozen, four different kinds. Most of the mushroom growth happened in about 5 years. It is stable now. The tank is 275 gallons, system is about 450 gallons. This reef is almost 20 years old now.

 

[VinnyP]

Da da dannngggg now thats what you call reef keeping haha

 

[Gregcoyote]

It's when it gets older that it gets interesting.

 

[FishontheRock]

Wow. What a beautiful tank!

 

[jsmith]

Lol and half us newbs pondered the question how get coraline algea to grow. Who needs that witj pink mushrooms.

 

[kdpuffer]

I'm curious what that is in the center, the tower. And what you have your frag rack made from.

 

[DWilliams]

I'm curious what that is in the center, the tower. And what you have your frag rack made from.

Looks like egg crate

 

[Gregcoyote]

Yes, I made a couple of these to transition frags to the main tank. Just black egg crate wire tied together. They are covered in pink algae, for some reason it likes to grow on them. I will take a close up, but a piece of purple tipped acro accidentally touched the back of one of these, now I have that coral growing on the egg crate. Starts as a green hard slime looking material and then one day it starts sprouting little towers. Really neat.