Too many mushrooms!!!

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ylua

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Hello, I am brandy new to this forum! I have had a 75 gallon salt water tank for about 10 years. I have around 80lbs live rock in it with many different polyps growing all over. But, there are mushrooms everywhere! I have tried many ways to get rid of them, and never have any luck. These things just propegate way too fast! The only way I have really been successful in ghetting rid of them is....taking the rock out! But I'd need to remove all my rock to get rid of them.
Does anyone have a way to get rid of an over abundance of mushrooms??
Thanks for any help or advice you can give me!
 
Not without almost killing the rock as well.. you take 1 rock out at a time, put it in a bucket of saltwater/kalkwasser solution, this will start to melt the mushrooms then you use a stiff brush and scrub them off, rinse the rock really good in good saltwater (can be water taken out from a waterchange) and put back in your tank. I would do 1 rock per day like that max, 1-2 per week would be better if you can make sure the mushrooms won't grow back onto the clean rock while you take a month or so slowly cleaning all the rocks.
 
Welcome! Have you tried injecting them with lemon juice? This has worked for me in the past. If you have a lot I would not try and kill them off all at once.
 
Oh ya, one important piece of info I forgot to add, if you do a kalk solution like I mentioned always wear rubber gloves and eye protection. That stuff will hurt your skin and eyes.

Injecting them with lemon juice, kalk, or vinegar works as well, but makes a bigger mess in your tank and you can only do a couple mushrooms a day like that. May be a losing battle if your tank is over run with them.
 
why i have never bought a single mushroom species, find none of them attractive and they propagate nearly as fast as xenia

Besides Rics of course :)!
 
I hope you fix your problem.
 
I love my mushrooms! My mushrooms almost all withered away when I added t5 lights. I actually had to shade some of them so they wouldn't all be gone. so my experience has been more light equals less mushrooms.

Hairy mushrooms, not sure of the real name, love more light and mine are growing quite well. But I don't suspect these are the type you are referring too.
 
Cerianthus said:
Why kill them when you can sell them or donate to local fish club?
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I agree:)

Why don't you take them to your LFS on the rockand exchange them for a fresh bit of rock. that way ou could even exchange for store credit, that's what I do.
 
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