Mushrooms

I bought three not attached ricordia on the same day, one attached immediately. One I had to tie onto the rock with a string, attached within a week. One I tied onto a rock and it split, one side attached and the other didn't. I tied that piece to a rock and it attached on one side and then split again. I now have three tiny but healthy pieced of blue ricordia, one is attached to a seashell, one is attached to a rock and the other refuses to attach to anything at all. Its trying my patience, I tell you!!!

From now on, I'm not buying them unless they have attached to something, even if it's just a piece of substrate, that I can glue to a rock!!!

Gin

 

the easiest way is to drop them in the tank and let them "go with the flow"...i then try to forget about them...Then a few months or year later i notice a colony of them and its like i bought a new coral all over again!

 

I may do that with this stubborn piece of ricordia, it's so small I'll never know where it landed...hopefully not in the back underneath a kenya tree where it'll be grown over in less than a week...

 

Good way to let em go Craig. I'm with you. Just let what ever will be will be.
Except for that nasty stuff, but I got an RO/DI now, naa naanhhh.

 

RO/DI doesnt solve everything. if you have livestock in the tank you will have a build up of nutrients so even with pure water going in you still end up having to have a means of nutrient export to stay ahead of the nutrient import. So an RO/DI is just another way of staying ahead of the game

 

So I am going to add a question to this thread......I just got back from a 10 day vacation. My husband was at home taking care of home stuff. I had a small colony of 3 red mushrooms at the top of the tank and they had been there for a while liking it a lot. As I was a way one of them disappeared. The biggest one. Could someone have eaten it but left the others? If it did move we can't find it and it would be way behind the LR. Do I or should I worry about it?

 

i wouldnt worry about it but if you thinki you found something that eat mushrooms please share who you think the culprit is cause i would love to get my hands on one they are cool in LPS or a soft coral tank but id love to get them out of my SPS tank!

 

so i got a mushroom rock and with in 12 hr all of mushrooms drop off and is now laying in the sand what would make them do that beside not like that location they are at