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Old 10-28-2014, 03:01 AM
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Default Eradicating green mushrooms

I am looking for advice on getting rid of these things. They are crowding out my corals and zoanthids need to go. Taking the rock out of the tank is not an option.
Has anyone heard of or had success with a majano wand?
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Old 10-28-2014, 03:19 AM
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If you want a cheaper method you can just inject them with Aptasia destroyer, aptasia X or Muriatic acid etc... Depending on tank size I'd do a handful every couple days and use small amounts into the mouth towards the base.
The wand would probably work too, but for 10 to 20 dollars the other method would be just as effective or better IMO
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Old 10-29-2014, 04:41 PM
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I tried zapping bunch of them with vinegar last night and they did not look too happy this morning. Time will tell if they actually die.
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Old 10-29-2014, 06:05 PM
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Here's my experience with them, a mushroom was one of my first "corals" I bought for my reef and after 15+ years of them growing and spreading, trying every thing for years to get rid of them, I shut down that tank and bought all new rock. They are a plague.

Good luck, IMO nothing gets rid of them, they just seem to spread harder and faster the more you try and kill them. I still have all the rock, just waiting until I have the desire to give it all a acid bath.

I still have a purple tang from that tank, he's been around for 15+- years.
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Old 10-31-2014, 05:05 PM
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Inject them with something acidic at their base at night... I usually use lemon juice.... Then use a turkey baster to suck them off the rock in the morning. You may need to modify the size of the opening depending on the size of the shroom. It is nearly impossible to get all of the shrooms out of any tank tho
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Good luck!

Ever see guys on youtube putting mushrooms in a blender?

It just makes them multiply like crazy.
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Old 10-31-2014, 10:34 PM
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Both my frogspawn and my bubble coral make quick work of any mushrooms on a rock, or anywhere near them. Gets rid of the nuisance palys as well. Unfortunately, can't have my entire reef covered with frogspawn and bubble coral...
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I have had good success injecting vinegar into the stem of the mushroom. Killed off lots of floaters that landed in areas not mushroom designated.
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Good luck!

Ever see guys on youtube putting mushrooms in a blender?

It just makes them multiply like crazy.
Ya, I would suggest anything short of physically removing them, anything else will just annoy them into reproducing
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I have had good success injecting vinegar into the stem of the mushroom. Killed off lots of floaters that landed in areas not mushroom designated.
What do you use to inject the vinegar into the mushroom? I tried cutting them off the rock once and it made a h--l of a mess in my tank and helped to spread them more.
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