removing mushrooms before starting new tank

yellowtruck75 · 01/06/2008, 11:17 AM

I am getting ready to setup my new 120 and I will be using all the same rocks from my current 125. How can I remove all the mushrooms off the rocks before putting them into the tank so that I don't lose control of them? Anything else I should do to the rock before introducing them into the new tank?

Toddrtrex · 01/06/2008, 11:57 AM

Sell the rock.

Hopefully someone will have a better solution for you, but when I redid my 75 because of out of control mushrooms I ended up selling all my rock, there were just too many of them to remove them all.

Granted mine were really bad it would have taken weeks to remove them all. Plus I wanted to make sure that there was no way that a little one that I missed could take over again.

Here are some of the old rocks, and why I pretty much had no choice to sell them.

Good luck to ya.

SurfnFish · 01/06/2008, 12:01 PM

I'm not fully sure, but I believe you can cover them with Kalk paste, and it will kill them. Hopefully someone else will chime in. Those pics above are insane! That's a lot of mushrooms.

01/06/2008, 11:17 AM	#1
yellowtruck75 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: WATSONTOWN PA Posts: 2,171	removing mushrooms before starting new tank I am getting ready to setup my new 120 and I will be using all the same rocks from my current 125. How can I remove all the mushrooms off the rocks before putting them into the tank so that I don't lose control of them? Anything else I should do to the rock before introducing them into the new tank?

01/06/2008, 11:57 AM	#2
Toddrtrex Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Carol Stream, IL Posts: 23,162	Sell the rock. Hopefully someone will have a better solution for you, but when I redid my 75 because of out of control mushrooms I ended up selling all my rock, there were just too many of them to remove them all. Granted mine were really bad it would have taken weeks to remove them all. Plus I wanted to make sure that there was no way that a little one that I missed could take over again. Here are some of the old rocks, and why I pretty much had no choice to sell them. Good luck to ya. __________________ Click my name and then "visit toddrtrex's homepage" for tank pictures Current Tank Info: 210g reef and 65g reef

01/06/2008, 12:01 PM	#3
SurfnFish Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Posts: 676	I'm not fully sure, but I believe you can cover them with Kalk paste, and it will kill them. Hopefully someone else will chime in. Those pics above are insane! That's a lot of mushrooms. __________________ 17x17x10 Shallow Cube. RapidLED Par38 with 60* optics, AC modified for fuge, CPR BakPak w/Maxi jet 1200. Clown w/ LTA, Zoas and Softies. Current Tank Info: 17x17x10 Shallow Cube