Mushroom rock

I just had to show this rock off. It came with 4 and two left after a couple of weeks but I left it where it was and a couple weeks later it has exploded over the last month. Funny, the one in the back gets the least light and gets huge. It has produced at least 10 new mushrooms and as you can see there are different types coming from this colony.

 

awesome looking rock and they are reproducing fast! Nice job.

 

what makes them reproduce that fast? nice shrooms by the way.joe

 

one in back must be getting perfict light. nice job and nice shrooms

 

A mushroom polyp is actually in an ideal state when they are smaller in size!! I know what you guys and girls are thinking, I must be nuts!!
ON the contrary, I have done studies on this behavior in mushrooms taking foods and nutrients(phosphates and nitrates) and light to see how muchrooms will react!
When a mushroom expands, it is doins so to be able to get as much nutrients from the water as possible due to limited low levels of nutrients. You will find this especially true after performing a water change. If their is alot of nutrients in the water, the mushrooms do not have to work as hard for their nutrients due to the abundance of them in the pelagic areas of the tank.
As for light, same thing, alot of light, the mushroom will not open up as much as the mushrooms host zooxanthellae has a saturated level of oxygen. To little light and the mushroom will open up to try and capture as much light as possible for its benefits and nutrients!

 

In my new lighting system my mushrooms have shriveled to about nothing and have no stalk. Like coral reefer stated bigger "umbrella" and longer stalk mean reaching for light and trying to gather food.
Again to use my tank, the zoos are also flat to the rock instead of having a stalk!!
Might need to check the bulbs jed!

Happy reefing!

 

Hey, reefer and frag, what in the world are talking about!

 

You were talking about your mushroom in the back of your tank receiving the least amount of light and is large. Just answering your question as to why is all...
Nice shrooms, by the way especiall the big green one in the back!

 

So the question here is it , better to have a limit amount so "it" has to put work in to get nutrienting OR have a abundant amount so they shrivel up?

i ask because i love mushroom, and all the mushroom in my tank open out wide and i thing it looks great, because you can see all the color specially on the Yuma

 

I guess it is a safe assumption to have a fine line between each! The problem is that many of us have such a diverse amount of hermatypic and ahermatypic corals that the requirements by each are different so a balance needs to be achieved.