Green Hairy Mushrooms

Tonight I performed my mass green hairy mushroom exodus. I've got at least 10 of them in a container sitting in my filtering area waiting to be taken. My plan here is to give 2 away to anyone who wants them, and then throw what's left on plugs and see if I can get some trade at a LFS. I will warn that they are invasive... aka they grow and multiply quickly and kill basically anything they touch. Be careful with them! They would be GREAT in an aggressive tank or on a single rock separated from the main LR. Easy to care for... any light... any flow... if you find out how to kill them let us know. ;-)

Friday is my put them on plugs day... so claim them before then!

davEjones is already grabbing a few. Who else is grabbing some?

Pics? I might like one.

Green Hairy Mushshrooms are a great coral. Alot of "up-side" to them, beautilful texture and color, Clowns will host them, very hardy... one of the best "Soft" corals out there. As with most softies, they grow much faster than SPS. If you plan on a SPS dominate tank, I would not recomend them or most other softies... Green Star Polyps, Xenia ect.. especially in a nano. I would not call them "Killers".. just better competitors. Bottom line, all corals compete. With less space and weaker (delicate) corals, they will win every time. Just my 2 cents

Mcreefer wrote:Pics? I might like one.

top shelf rock in left-hand corner.. will try to find a better pic, but this is my retired 120

Check the 29g build log link in my sig. The green hairy mushrooms are the corals covering that large center rock.

Matt, I would love one, especially as the clowns seem so content in hosting these, but to be honest I think I would be foolish to consider putting one in yet, but thanks for the offer.

I don't think it's too early for a mushroom. Honestly, you can ask a few of the other guys as well...

The shrooms are pretty hardy Yeti, you will be ok to add one! Like Matt said though, they are invasive and will spead all over your rock unless you isolate it.

Beware! ALL coral is invasive!..LOL Before you add ANY coral you should have in mind what you ultimately want to accomplish with your tank. If your goal is going to be SPS... don't get one. You'll regret it later on. A Softy/ LPS tank will look beautiful too. If that's the case, adding one now would be fine.

Mushrooms are almost impossable to kill. When my wife shut her 12g nano down and moved into a 29g nano I left the sand bed, one inch of water a small rock and a mushroom in the tank for over a month... I know I'm lazy. No heater no food no current. Ice cold water. After a month I moved it into my 40g breeder and it was open back and full within 1 week.

Thus far I'm giving them out to four people. I'll count exactly how many I have tonight. If more people want them I can frag some more.

Put me on the list then please Matt. I'm hoping to get across on Sunday if Jason's in, to pick up a skimmer, so I could collect the Green Hairy at the same time if it suited you.

I'll be around

OK Jason, I'll give you a call on sunday to let you know roughly when we should be over there.

I'll go ahead and get the green hairys over to Jasons house then. My Sunday is nuts... work till 2, back at 5 till who knows when.

Okay guys. Epic fail on the green hairy mushrooms. Apparently cutting on ten of these guys at once and putting them all in a small volume of water was a terrible idea. Yesterday the tank stunk like the mushrooms, today it was terrible. My wife left the house and I came home at lunch to get them out.

Long story short, the mushrooms were starting a chemical war or something and were killing themselves. They were melting away and taking the tank with it. The mushrooms are now in the trash, my tank stinks and is cloudy and my gorg hasn't opened since the mushrooms made it into the tank. Maybe I should have left these guys alone!!!

Lol! Nothing smells worse than green hairy mushrooms! It's an indescribable stench that you have to smell for yourself to understand. Corals stink if you smell them close but those mushrooms will run everyone out of the house. I tried to frag one at home and I thought I was going to vomit.

I DEMANED A REFUND! Lol. I know that smell and the cloudy water. No fun at all

Awww man it's terrible. As soon as I walked into the house yesterday I lit a candle. That did nothing today. Dang near a whole can of freeze has been sprayed in our house today. I'm doing a 5g water change in the ten gallon tonight just to help. Added another half unit of chemi pure elite hoping it would help too.

Man, there is no telling what this stuff is gonna do!

Matt
Is this in you new ten gallon?

Yes this was the new 10g. I'm doing a 50% water change tomorrow morning before adding my first fish. The new chemi-pure elite has already helped with the smell, and the gorg is opening back up tonight. I think everything is going to recover just fine, but dang.... green hairy mushrooms are nuts! lol. Never frag those guys then leave them in a nano!

Hmmm. Maybe I'll skip on mine LOL.

Yeah, probably should have had a spare 10 gallon with a lot of carbon on it to cut them guys up in. Hope theres no long term effects on the 10, shouldn't be, That chemipure is some good stuff.

When it's time to frag GHM's, I perfer the "Hammer & Chisle" method. Bustin' up the rock! I know you didn't want to destroy that beautiful rock though. Sorry they didn't make it.

I tried to not touch as many of them as possible. Most of them I broke the rock off below them, but I guess the few that I didn't started the war... or maybe it was from just picking them up and moving tanks without any acclimating... no idea.