Rcpilot
Reef enthusiast
I don't know WHY, but I have the WORSE time trying to grow purple mushrooms. I bought my first purple mushroom about 8 months ago. It was a rock with 2 mushrooms about the size of a quarter. It never did well and after a week, they both detached themselves from the rock and drifted around. I tried putting them in little plastic cups with netting over the top. I tried to make them attach to some small pieces of rock. They would attach and I'd take them out and place them in the tank. Within a week, they'd detach again. Both of them eventually ended up in powerheads or under shaded portions of the tank. Dead. :grumble:
I bought another purple mushroom rock a few months ago. Placed them at the bottom of the tank in very low flow. They did fine for a few weeks and then one of them detached and started drifting. :frustrat: SOB!!!!!
I put it in a plastic cup and got it to reattach to a rock. I pulled it out after a month in the cup and placed it in a clam spot in the tank. One week goes by. This morning I find it detached and stuck against an Aussie Acan LPS. The Acan had it's tentacles out and was stinging the mushroom. 50% of the mushroom is melted goo. Looks like hot bubble gum on a sidewalk.
WTF am I doing wrong? It's a MUSHROOM!!! They are supposed to be EASY!! I'm just so frustrated and pissed off. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm ready to dump the whole tank down the toilet and grind up all the corals in the garbage disposal.
I bought another purple mushroom rock a few months ago. Placed them at the bottom of the tank in very low flow. They did fine for a few weeks and then one of them detached and started drifting. :frustrat: SOB!!!!!
I put it in a plastic cup and got it to reattach to a rock. I pulled it out after a month in the cup and placed it in a clam spot in the tank. One week goes by. This morning I find it detached and stuck against an Aussie Acan LPS. The Acan had it's tentacles out and was stinging the mushroom. 50% of the mushroom is melted goo. Looks like hot bubble gum on a sidewalk.
WTF am I doing wrong? It's a MUSHROOM!!! They are supposed to be EASY!! I'm just so frustrated and pissed off. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm ready to dump the whole tank down the toilet and grind up all the corals in the garbage disposal.