mushrooms and ricordeas

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  1. fishluver

    fishluver Sea Dragon

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    How would you frag musrooms and ricordeas? And would it be hard?
     
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  3. Jm'sRSM

    Jm'sRSM Fire Shrimp

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    cut them through the center, you have you have to get a piece of the mouth.
     
  4. GuitarMan89

    GuitarMan89 Giant Squid

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    The easiest thing to do is to break off a piece of the rock the mushroom is growing on. You can also either cut the mushroom in half, making sure half of the mouth is on either piece or cut the whole mushroom off the rock and use netting of some sort to secure it to a rock/frag disc, after a few days, it should attach to the new rock. I've tried gluing them, and it doesn't work that well.
     
  5. carpenter

    carpenter Feather Duster

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    Mushrooms are REALLY easy, there are some pretty good videos on "youtube", but you basically slice one off at the stalk then cut it up like a pizza, just make sure you cut throught the mouth. Then just put them in a container with some rubble rock and let em start to grow.
     
  6. Pens-Fan-Addict

    Pens-Fan-Addict Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    i fragged some mushrooms by cutting them in pie pieces (making sure to get a piece of the mouth oon each one. I then took a clean yougurt cup and cut it so it was only about an inch in height, placed some live rock rubble in it, mushroom pieces and covered with bridal veil mesh. I placed a rubber band to hold the mesh on and put it in the back corner (out of flow) of my tank for about 4 weeks. Then Presto I had 5 new mushrooms.

    I havent yet tried this with ricordias yet.

    Good luck!
     
  7. fishluver

    fishluver Sea Dragon

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    Would you use fragging clippers or just scissors?
     
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  9. carpenter

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    WOW! There wasn't a single reply to this question when I started typing, but there where three responses when I posted my reply. Maybe I should work on my speedy fingers.
     
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    I used a single edge razor blade. Like the ones used to scrape paint off of glass.
     
  11. fishluver

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