what do you do to introduce mushrooms

Ryand63 · 10/31/2012, 11:55 AM

I've never had any corals or even mushrooms before besides one frogspawn I had a few years back and was wondering what precautions do you all take before introducing mushrooms into your reef tank?

J2T · 10/31/2012, 12:59 PM

What do you mean precautions? Do you mean acclimation? I float the bag for 15 min, then mix up some tank water with some Revive and dip it for about 5 min, then place it in the tank on the bottom and then after a few days move it to where I want it. Mushrooms are pretty hardy though.

Ryand63 · 10/31/2012, 02:42 PM

yeah just meant acclimation wise, or dip, or QT or anything really

bnumair · 10/31/2012, 02:52 PM

temp acclimate them by floating the bag on top of ur tank or in sump. 15-30 min. then dip in some coral dip for 10 min and into the tank they go.

sponger0 · 10/31/2012, 04:19 PM

Dip, drop in tank. Mushrooms can handle most of all tanks. I even had some survive on a clip on desk lamp.

Jopalmighty · 11/01/2012, 01:47 PM

My mushrooms seem to be very hardy as well, I cycled the tank with mushrooms on the rock that was purchased from a local reefer. The mushrooms looked great during the cycle and since then I notice a new one sprouting almost every week. Good luck!

10/31/2012, 11:55 AM	#1
Ryand63 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,045	what do you do to introduce mushrooms I've never had any corals or even mushrooms before besides one frogspawn I had a few years back and was wondering what precautions do you all take before introducing mushrooms into your reef tank? __________________ 55 Gallon FOWLR - BeamsWork 48" LED's w/ Reef Octopus Bh-90 10 Gallon QT

10/31/2012, 12:59 PM	#2
J2T Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 952	What do you mean precautions? Do you mean acclimation? I float the bag for 15 min, then mix up some tank water with some Revive and dip it for about 5 min, then place it in the tank on the bottom and then after a few days move it to where I want it. Mushrooms are pretty hardy though. __________________ Jared 60 Gallon cube, 10g sump, 2 AI Sol Blue, SeaSide Aquatic CS3.5 Skimmer

10/31/2012, 02:42 PM	#3
Ryand63 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,045	yeah just meant acclimation wise, or dip, or QT or anything really __________________ 55 Gallon FOWLR - BeamsWork 48" LED's w/ Reef Octopus Bh-90 10 Gallon QT

10/31/2012, 02:52 PM	#4
bnumair Dr. Reef at ur service Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tulsa, Ok, USA Posts: 7,751 Blog Entries: 15	temp acclimate them by floating the bag on top of ur tank or in sump. 15-30 min. then dip in some coral dip for 10 min and into the tank they go. __________________ Water Quality: NO3 0,Phos 0,Cal 440,Alk 7.5,Mag 1300 "Reef Fast, You Crash, Reef Slow, You Pass" Mike's Reef 3:16 Current Tank Info: 350g DT,95g sump, 50g Frag tank, 4800gph return 4x Sea swirls. 6x AI Vega Color. 200# Pukani rock, dual recirculating skimmer, Biopellet, GFO Carbon rx's, Cal rx. Closed loop. 1.5hp chiller, genesis renew. Apex & RKE

10/31/2012, 04:19 PM	#5
sponger0 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 6,659	Dip, drop in tank. Mushrooms can handle most of all tanks. I even had some survive on a clip on desk lamp.

11/01/2012, 01:47 PM	#6
Jopalmighty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Columbus, OH Posts: 95	My mushrooms seem to be very hardy as well, I cycled the tank with mushrooms on the rock that was purchased from a local reefer. The mushrooms looked great during the cycle and since then I notice a new one sprouting almost every week. Good luck!