Where to go from here!

[Olliefowler]

Ok, so i have had my reef tank set up for nearly 2 years now. And finally i think i have the hang of it! All my sps is growing really well (even seriatopora) and lps is doing well, along with healthy fish of course!
However when i bought the tank with the rock etc 2nd hand. One rock had a couple of these red and green mushrooms! As a novice i thought great!
Well of course now they are everywhere! They look nice as fillers, however i would ideally like to get rid of them all and have an sps and lps doninant tank!
Can anyone help me? Can i bleach rock work etc?
However please dont say send them to me! As i don't really consider this an option!



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[Reefing Madness]

Yea, you can bleach the rock work, but you'd have to do it one piece at a time, being as you already have fish in the tank, you can't kill all the bacteria off all the rock at the same time, you'll send the tank back to a full cycle.

 

[Olliefowler]

Ok, just soak the rock in bleach? Then rinse it off and straight back into tank?


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[Sniperhank]

You could just treat the mushrooms like you would aiptasia.

 

[Olliefowler]

Yea but there are so many of them?! How do you treat aptasia?


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[Sniperhank]

Injecting with boiling lemon juice could work, but I'm thinking more of covering them in a kalk paste. You could pull them off as well.


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[Reefing Madness]

Get a expensive laser and just shoot them.

 

[Olliefowler]

If i pull them off they just regrow! And ill try the boiling lemon!
If i go with bleaching the rock, once bleached and rinsed can i return rock to dt, for should i cure it in a separate tank


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[melosu58]

Whenever I get a bunch of mushroom I sell them to the LFS. They pay good for them too.. Try that instead of killing them. Maybe advertise in craigslist or something.

 

[Animal-Chin]

Remember Lemon is REALLY acidic and can cause your tanks alk and ph to swing if you put enough in there. I used lemon juice in my display to kill apastia and it worked awesome! It also killed the $100 blasto colony right beside them (not so awesome). Maybe do one every other day or so. Just a suggestion.

 

[Gregcoyote]

I mix Kalk paste with a little corn starch to make it sticky. Costs pennies and works great.


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[Olliefowler]

Would it work if i removed the rock from tank and removed mushrooms then scrubbed with wire brush?
Could i then return the rock straight into my tank.


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[Sniperhank]

Of course it would. I've used a toothbrush to remove mushrooms before. Tears right through them. Makes heck of a mess...I'd rinse really well.

 

[Marty.h]

Why not take the rocks out with them on and take that rock to the LFS for a good amount of credit and get another piece of live rock to replace it why kill them when someone else may really want them

 

[Olliefowler]

My lfs wont take any more of them! They arent usual mushrooms. They are a pest!


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[Marty.h]

If you take the rock and get a nice sharp chisel under them so you chip them off with the small bit of rock they are attached to they will not come back then I would not go nuking your rock simply chip them off

 

[Olliefowler]

Yea thats a good idea. But most rocks are covered with them!


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[Marty.h]

Then chip them off you leave even so much as as a spec and they will be back !!

 

[Olliefowler]

I know. And they are like weeds! Absolutely everywhere! Once ive chipped them away, wash them in waterchange water and replace straight away?


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[Marty.h]

Yeah give them a scrub in removed salt water and plonk them back you won't see any die off then