Filefish eat mushrooms and palys?

[rishu_pepper]

I'll be your "filefish" and take all your mushrooms

[Reef Pilot]

Dogface puffer sounds interesting. I understand they eat a lot, period... And probably grow fast, too. This is for a 33g QT tank, and would never put one in my DT. And his time, and duty, would probably be fairly temporary, too. The reason I was hoping for a filefish is that they are in some demand as aiptasia eaters, and should be easy to pass off to someone else.

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

I'll be your "filefish" and take all your mushrooms

You can have them, if you can tell me how to get them off of my live rocks. And are you sure you know what you would be getting into with these down the road?

[janalta]

It sounds like it's hit and miss, but I had a filefish for a month and it ate every last zoa polyp in my tank.
Didn't touch the mushrooms though.
I did however have two peppermint shrimp devour an entire colony of hairy mushrooms a few years ago

[Reef Pilot]

I resorted to manual removal with some palys, and that seems to work. But not with mushrooms, they just shrink up inside the rock and pop out again a day or two later. I am also trying Aiptasia X on some mushrooms. They do seem to disappear again. But will they return (like the aiptasia does after a few days). What a scourge these things are (to my SPS)!...

My next step might be to remove the rock and try chisel them out (getting really desperate now)...

[The Guy]

I have the same problem with the paly's and have a pile of green rodactus mushrooms, thought they were nice when I brought home a couple. Now I got way too many greens.

[spit.fire]

Get an angelfish

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

I resorted to manual removal with some palys, and that seems to work. But not with mushrooms, they just shrink up inside the rock and pop out again a day or two later. I am also trying Aiptasia X on some mushrooms. They do seem to disappear again. But will they return (like the aiptasia does after a few days). What a scourge these things are (to my SPS)!...

My next step might be to remove the rock and try chisel them out (getting really desperate now)...

Epoxy them over or super glue them they need photosynthesis in order to survive they can only go so long without it , a thin sheet of coral putty and a few weeks later pull it off no more mushrooms or anything photosynthetic .

Super glue works to but is time consuming lol

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by spit.fire

Get an angelfish

I have an angelfish, doesn't touch them, or any other coral...

Originally Posted by reefwars

Epoxy them over or super glue them they need photosynthesis in order to survive they can only go so long without it , a thin sheet of coral putty and a few weeks later pull it off no more mushrooms or anything photosynthetic .

I was thinking of doing that, too, but didn't want a bunch of coral putty all over my live rock. But if I can pull it off, might be worth a try. This is only for rocks with just a few mushrooms. There are others that are hopelessly covered, and will have to be removed permanently.

[rishu_pepper]

Have you tried chiseling the parts of the rock that they are on? I know it doesn't sound pretty but it may be a quick and easy solution. I can pick them up tonight if you can haha.