View Full Version : ID these mushrooms please?
AnnetteG
01-28-2008, 3:34 PM
Got these on a live rock yesterday when I went fish shopping! There are obviously two different kinds, or so I think anyway. But they're the same color. The one in the top of the picture under the bigger one moves around more than the others, but I've noticed them all changing position.
Thanks!
$eaba$$
01-28-2008, 6:49 PM
to me it looks like the one on the left is a normal green mushroom and the one on the right is a green striped mushroom.
andy1130
01-28-2008, 11:45 PM
kinda hard to pin a specific species on them from just a pic. I would say the one on the right (striped one) looks like a Actinodiscus Striata while the one on the left is either a species of rhodactis or ricordea (hard to tell with that resolution) - if the texture texture on it is more like bulbs or bumps i would say ricordea, if they are stubby tentacles its a rhodactis
andy1130
01-28-2008, 11:48 PM
Oh yea, either way care for them should be pretty similar. They can spread rapidly and choke out other corals and if it is a rhodactis, larger species can eat small fish that wander in and perch on them
AnnetteG
01-28-2008, 11:49 PM
I'll see if I can get a closer picture tomorrow. I'm having trouble figuring out my cameras macro function. I know it's supposed to be very good, it's just a matter of me figuring it out. When all else fails, read the directions, right? :)
Sarra
01-29-2008, 12:26 AM
Set it to flower mode, press the shutter button down part way, then move the camera forward or backwards until your subject (teh 'shroom) is in focus, then press the button all the way down. :)