hairy mushroom

i did it, i finally bought my first coral! i got a hairy mushroom, read up on it and thought this will be a good beginner coral, just got one question to make sure i got it right, read i don't have to feed it and the lfs said the same thing, just have to put it in the tank and leave it alone, no feeding, they said i also don't have to put anything else in the water (supplements)
is that right on not?

 

yes thats right

if you have adequate lighting and moderate flow, shrooms dont seem to need anything else IME
Steve

 

+1 to that!
Congrats on your first coral! ;D

 

thanks, i feel better now, i was reading that some people feed it silverside, what
is ok cause i have a anemone that i feed silverside, i have a t5 light that the lfs said is enough, right or wrong?

 

how many lamps?
shrooms will ball up around larger food items and consume them, but many people dont target feed them as such, they eat what they capture , if at all, and seem to prosper.

Steve

 

Mine eat mysis that get stuck to them. I've never tried to actually feed them though. All mushroom 'corals' are actully related to nems but they don't have the sticky properties a nem does. I even read threads where a hairy mushroom has eaten small fish.

 

All corals in general are related to nems (Family Cnidaria, class Anthozoa). The stony corals are actually just as closely related to nems as mushrooms are; they're all in the family hexacorallia, each under a different order. Mushrooms are in order corallimorphia, stonies are in order scleractinia, and 'nems are in order actinaria, all under the same family.

And they all have the sticky properties; these are all in the phylum cnidaria, which groups the stinging-celled animals together, due to the nematocysts. Even gorgonians have nematocysts.

 

ive seen a monster HM eat pods before but i dont think theyre stick enough to catch anything significant

 

i have 2 bulbs, is that enough

 

only thing you MIGHT and i stress MIGHT consider is iodine. I have a 14BC that I have handful of mushies in. For some reason sometimes the mushrooms do not open up as fully as you would think they would. Often right after the weekly Iodine dose (Lugol's Solution is best) they are WIDE open.
Not necessary to target feed tho.
Mushies to make great beginner corals and best of luck to you!!!