Is this a carpet mushroom?
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ReefingDreams
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Green Hairy Mushroom (Rhodactis indosinensis)I don't know what this is but it can get up to 6 inches in diameter now its not a carpet mushroom...
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There are multiple varieties of rhodactis. This is the green hairy mushroom variety. Very common. Can be invasive. Pretty, though.
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The following species are recognized in the genus Rhodactis:
- Rhodactis bryoides (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893)
- Rhodactis howesii (Saville-Kent, 1893)
- Rhodactis inchoata (Carlgren, 1943)
- Rhodactis indosinensis (Carlgren, 1943)
- Rhodactis musciformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
- Rhodactis osculifera (Le Sueur, 1817)
- Rhodactis rhodostoma (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
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Two different species. Both are Rhodactis genus. As I said, there are numerous Rhodactis species. You have two different species of Rhodactis. Just do a quick Google search with the information I've provided and you'll find countless examples.These are the rhodactis in my tank the other don't resemble at all thats why I'm asking this on has tentacles like galaxea
I have normal looking ricordia and 1 green hairy mushroom. The normal looking ones reproduce pretty aggressively. The green hairy not so much. I added three and only one lasted long term and has grown large but has never reproduced. It's been in the tank for probably close to 2 years. Funny thing is the green hairy came from a tank that was torn down because of an invasion of them that took over the tank. Just goes to show how things can grow so differently in different tanks.
Dee tre
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I had the normal green ones for 17 months and i almost get a new one every month. It went from 1 to 12 or 13 I wouldn't call that invasive though my gsp is invasive...
This tank has been really weird through the years. For the longest time I couldn't keep gsp alive or even zoas. 6 years later I add some gsp and have it covering the back wall and some zoas I don't even remember adding are staring to grow.
Tank is mature and super stable so no don't test often. Last test 1/30/24
NO3 13.2
PO4 0.78
Calcium 440
Alk 8.3 tested today
This is the lone hairy mushroom
And the recordia that have no problem reproducing. Have a new colony starting on the other end of the tank on top of an orange monti cap chunk that broke off
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Mechano
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Very nice. The ricordea growing better than these mushrooms is a bonus lol.This tank has been really weird through the years. For the longest time I couldn't keep gsp alive or even zoas. 6 years later I add some gsp and have it covering the back wall and some zoas I don't even remember adding are staring to grow.
Tank is mature and super stable so no don't test often. Last test 1/30/24
NO3 13.2
PO4 0.78
Calcium 440
Alk 8.3 tested today
This is the lone hairy mushroom
And the recordia that have no problem reproducing. Have a new colony starting on the other end of the tank on top of an orange monti cap chunk that broke off
Mechano
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So here are my colonies of these things , I also keep em in my 50g refugium but it’s nighttime there so no good pics.
In the 1st pic I will be needing to go and remove a bunch as they are starting to encroach on much more desirable corals if ya know what I mean.
The area I live is flooded with these green hairy mushrooms so they are hard to give away. I just don’t wanna destroy them though so I keep throwing them into my 75g observation tank or refugium as they can’t hurt nothing there.
In the 1st pic I will be needing to go and remove a bunch as they are starting to encroach on much more desirable corals if ya know what I mean.
The area I live is flooded with these green hairy mushrooms so they are hard to give away. I just don’t wanna destroy them though so I keep throwing them into my 75g observation tank or refugium as they can’t hurt nothing there.
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