Difference between mushroom and mushroom?

[DudeBruh]

Have been told the mushrooms in my tank are just regular mushrooms by LFS and fellow R2R’ers while I was looking for care advise. Is there a mushroom coral and a mushroom, plain old mushroom? Or two the same?

 

[DSC reef]

Many species of mushrooms including colors and patterns.

 

[DudeBruh]

Many species of mushrooms including colors and patterns.

Maybe I worded it wrong, are they all corals? Are they all of the same... species? If that’s the right way to ask....
If I look up care for a mushroom coral will that cover my mushrooms?

 

[DSC reef]

Correct, they are all corals. Here's some good info on them.

https://www.aquariumcreationsonline.net/mushrooms.html

 

[Katrina71]

Do you mean like rhodactis, discoma, riccordia?

 

[DudeBruh]

Thanks so much! Have been sweating nitrates, but can’t be doing all that Bad if there happy and multiplying lol. Care to ID ?

 

[DudeBruh]

Do you mean like rhodactis, discoma, riccordia?

Nope. Honestly didn’t know if there was like a “ plant” mushroom or plain Jane one. And the coral mushrooms. Just hitch hiked on my LR

 

[tdileo]

They are just common green mushroom corals. Species is discosoma. They like low flow and light and usually appreciate water a bit on the dirtier side.

 

[DudeBruh]

They are just common green mushroom corals. Species is discosoma. They like low flow and light and usually appreciate water a bit on the dirtier side.

Thanks

 

[cristata.reef]

There are mushrooms (which are corallimorphs), these are squishy and related to anemones rather than corals but still considered corals for simplicity. They are easy to care for and great beginner corals, often hitchhiking on LR.

Mushroon corals of the family Fungiidae are true stony corals that come in a variety of shapes and sizes with the most common being fungia, cycloseris, and herpolitha. These are harder to care for but not explicitly expert corals. Although fairly common withing their distributed range they are rarely encountered as hitchhikers