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rxdoc_85
04-09-2008, 10:59 PM
hello all. i have some type of mushroom...actually there are two polyps that i bought attached to the same tiny piece of rock. they're pretty good sized, and are teal/green in color...really beautiful. anyhow, i purchased a gorgonian, and when i added it to the tank the mushroom must not have been fully open...i just noticed tonight that the mushroom was agains the gorgonian's polyps and is a little shrivled, so i've kind of make-shift-ly moved the gorgonian to get it away from the mushroom. the best move for all the corals in the tank would be to move the mushroom, but it seems to have attached to the rock. i've only had it for about a week and a half, but it's pretty solidly on there. how can i move it? can i just pull it off? i don't want to harm the coral, it's one of my favs. how should i proceed? thanks in advance.
AnnetteG
04-10-2008, 3:29 AM
Can you not move the rock it's on with it? No, don't pull it off. Try aiming a powerhead at it and blowing it off. I read that in a thread of Ace's about his overgrowing Rics. ;)
Ya, mushrooms and other things don't get along to well. My "mother" ric is now starting to cover my nice zoas and they won't open up now.. and the rics foot is spread across 4 different rocks so I can't move my zoas. Seems when I pulled out the 1 rocks I could that had 7 rics on it and put it into my frag tank the other rics noticed "hey, new space opened up, lets spread even faster".. argh! I know it's not the worst thing I could have happen, but my rics are turning into my "rock glue" holding my reef together now.
salty420
04-10-2008, 11:09 PM
is the mushroom you're talking about that beautiful teal ric i see in your seahorse tank?
rxdoc_85
04-10-2008, 11:20 PM
haha, no salty, that's not the one. the mushroom i was asking about is in the last pic i have on that seahorse post. thank you so much for the compliment though!! :) i'm hoping the ricordea will start to spread, but i dont want to spread to the proportion that ace's did :lipssealedsmilie:. i haven't messed with trying to move the mushroom today, but i think i found the real problem. there were a couple of aiptasia hiding out underneath the mushroom. so i mixed some kalk up and injected them, and i think i got rid of them. only time will tell i suppose.