Lost Mushroom

Sunshine

Sunshine

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I have been having problems with my coral staying put. I come home from work, and they are on the sand. I put them back on the rocks, in crevices and the next day, back on the sand. I really don't want to glue them, because if I ever want to move rocks around, it will be hard to do with coral glued to them. My little orange mushroom I seen behind a big pile of rocks, I tried to take a spoon and dig him out, but can't. It's too far back. I took a basting thing and tried to blow him out, it got blown behind another rock and now I can't find him. Will that one die ?

Also, yesterday, I came home from work and one of my snails was on the outside of the tank on the glass. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeez something new every day with this tank.
 
Mushrooms will detach and reattch where they find it suitable. I currently have 2 green muchrooms that were on a piece of LR and have since detached and let the current take them into a cave where my fire shrimp lives. The mushrooms get very little light, but the current is strong the food get's to them. I check on them regulary and they're doing just fine. They've actually grown larger in ther cave and have been in there for almost 2 months now.

That's crazy about the snail. Mine usually just poke out the top of the water and expose themselves to the air, but I have a lid so they can't get out.
 
+1 Hiker...that same mushroom will resurface months later after you have forgot about it...it'll be fine, they live in all types of conditions.
About the snail...sounds like he's trying to escape...my crabs do it often.
 
No it just means it likes yours better:mrgreen:

What you can do is take a small peice of rock and glue the mushroom on that. It will be small enough for you to move rock around.
 
No it just means it likes yours better:mrgreen:
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Ha Ha That made me laugh... Thanks... I will try the small rock thing, if I ever see him again. He was a pretty orange.... He was tiny.
 
keep in mind that your corals will eventually attach to the rocks that youplace them on. I would recommend that you try to place your rocks how you want them now so you won't need to disturb them later.
 
If it were me, I'd just let the mushroom be whereever it ends up. Eventually, if your conditions are right, it will start to spread and you'll have more mushrooms to see.
 
Well, after putting the coral back where they were, I made a mess. Rocks were falling, nasties were stirred up. So, I took the turkey baster and blew out all the rock's crevices. The dust has settled and I found him. Way back under a rock. I'll leave him be. Just keep my eye on him. How long does it take for coral to attach to rocks ?
 
When I got my first mushroom(a green guy, 9 of them on a piece of rock), I just dropped it in the tank on the bottom as I was worried my lights may be a little too strong.

Anyhow after a day, 1 was missing..I freaked out and came here. By the time I got around to reading responses another was gone too..So I was really freaked out.

I found both of them like a week later on the back bottom of my tank, they were green mushy messes and they REAKED. I almost threw them away but my clowns started picking at them when I dropped them back in the tank. I wasnt sure if they could eat them but it had already happend so it was out of my control. Anyhow, when they hit the sand they were left alone.

Next day they were both gone again so I figured they had been eaten. That was like 2 months ago.

Last week when I was trying to count up my CUC, I found both of them, lodged up in between two rocks. They're growing in a way that the ends are almost folded into eachother..but they look great...and completely in shade.

Shrooms are weird : /
 
I looked at him yesterday, he is on his way back out. He's about half way between the spot he was at, in a cave like spot, to the opening where there is light. I had him in the sand at first, and he attached himself to some rubble, than I moved him up on a ledge cause he kept getting blown around. That's when he took off. Guess I should of left him where he was in the sand.
 
OK, couldn't stand it any more. I dug him out. Put him on a low rock, he took off again. He's in the sand, footed to a piece of rubble under another rock ledge. So, I will leave him be now. He opened back up today. He's not near another mushroom, so I'll let the apron strings go.... lol
 
Good choice to leave it be. The more stress you induce the harder it will be for it to survive/thrive. You'll have plenty more mushrooms in no time when it starts spreading.
 
I have what I like to call my "mushroom graveyard" in the back corner of my tank. It's where all the loose mushrooms ended up when I moved all my rock into the new tank. There are probably about a dozen shrooms all piled up in that back corner, and they are unreachable unless I remove a bunch of rocks.
 
If you want to help him attach, heres a couple suggestions.

- sew him with thread or fishing line to a rock (once he attaches you can cut the string out)
- get a basket like a strawberry basket and put him on top of some rubble rock and the basket over him, once he attaches you can glue the rock somewhere.
 
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