How to grow mushrooms in a BioCube 14?

I have two mushrooms. One spent almost a year in there - single light brown mushroom that came on a live rock. Seemed happy enough, but never multiplied. Finally, one day, detached itself and started floating around the tank as a little brown button. God knows where it went. Bought another pretty flecked green mushroom looking thing. It pulled the ejection handles on the little rock it came attached to and did the same thing. I have 4 other corals all growing happily. A faux clown and a 6-line wrasse that all seem happy, as well. What do I need to do to make the mushroom fruitful and multiply, as well?

 

usually people have the opposite issue and their shrooms take over the tank.

How are your parameters?

 

I got my first coral is was a pair of blue/purple mushrooms, grew ok but nothing crazy for 6months.. then it 1 day just started having babys and changing colors etc.. so it's just one of those things..

 

I have so many.........green....red....blue....purple..fuzzy/hairy ....Love'm. put them in low light...they will surprise ya....if ya get some more. ; ) where ya live...I'll send ya some blue or green ones. : ) ..its time to cut some back again.
LG

 

Okay, not great. Ammonia 0.025, Nitrates 5-10. Used to be lower before the Aptaisia problem. They are gone now, but the Nitrates are still a bit high. The brown mushroom was in the shade at the bottom of a rock practically touching the sand. I thought it was the lack of light hindering it, now it sounds like they like that. Go figure.

BTW, the Aptasia-X worked, but they would just pop back up right through the stuff. Tough little buggers. The peppermint shrimp did 'em in though, and how.

Also, now, the purple coralline algae that was literally covering every square inch of my live rock has started to die off in patchy white areas everywhere. Could my use of the Aptasia-X have caused this? I only used it in a few spots. The die off is homogenous - everywhere, evenly distributed (except for the back wall of the tank, which appears to be solid purple still).

-- Joe

 

What about pH, calcium, alk, sg, mag?

 

sounds like my params. i have good sps growth though. not very good growth on anything else though. really weird.

 

No tank should ever have any trace of ammonia in it. Its toxic to everything.

 

I would be concerned about the Ammonia. As Phoenix said, it is toxic. Ammonia is broken down by the bacteria, show us your tank and list all your filtering.

 

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