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07/09/2009, 03:49 PM
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Mushroom splitting?
I have a beautiful purplish/bluish mushroom that seem to have split apart. Since this is my first mushroom, is this how they split into two/multiply? I actually witnessed the main mushroom pulling apart from the frag that's left. Will this small part turn into another mushroom??
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07/09/2009, 04:21 PM
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Yup, thats how they spread. Some people dont like them because the reproduce so fast and if not controlled can take over a tank. I personally like them. I started with a small colony of about 5 and in about 8 months I have around 20-25 now.
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07/09/2009, 05:54 PM
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Here is a pic of my mushroom. Isn't it beautiful? You can see the second part that has not yet turned into anything. It is just a purplish blob. Hoping for new mushrooms!!!
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07/09/2009, 06:03 PM
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07/09/2009, 06:12 PM
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Sometimes they'll bud instead of splitting. I've got some lavenders that bud frequently. I'll see what looks like a tiny mushroom growing on the edge of a larger one, eventually it drops off and floats around till it finds a spot it likes. I've ended up with a couple of low flow corners that are packed with mushrooms that way.
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07/09/2009, 06:23 PM
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how do i post a bigger pic? isn't it limited to 50kb? this sucks, i just learned to post pics, this being my first, and the pic isn't big enough to be appreciate, for anyone to see the true beauty of my mushroom :-(
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07/09/2009, 06:23 PM
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They are neat, just be careful or you could have to many. I used to just trade whole pieces of live rock for other corals or money when they were getting to dense. Its to hard to try to chip off each individual.
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07/09/2009, 09:34 PM
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KEEP THEM IN CHECK! My tank started as 1 rock with 10 mixed shrooms.
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07/09/2009, 10:38 PM
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07/09/2009, 11:56 PM
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Here ya go......its a little blurry.......your photo was so small that when I blew it up, it got blurry. You need to make it larger in a PhotoShop software, then use PhotoBucket to post it. 
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