Jawbreaker reproduction

[Foneman02]

Can anyone guide me on how to get my jawbreaker mushroom to reproduce? I had this one for 3 years and nothing. I have some green roactis and other green mushrooms that constantly reproduce. I didn’t want to take a chance and cut it through its mouth. Current tank parameters. Nitrate 26.5 phosphate. 0.04 calcium 440. Magnesium 1350 alkalinity 7.0.

 

[Reefer Matt]

@DIYreefer

 

[Redbeards.Reef]

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[DIYreefer]

So the issue that you’re likely having is that your Jawbreaker is quite content with where you’ve placed it. They reproduce by leaving little flesh boogers (yes, that is the correct scientific term!) as they move, and they will typically move because they don’t find something about their current location ideal.

Whether that be lighting, flow, nutrient levels, irritants from neighboring corals… or any combination of those factors, those are the things that will get them to start to wander and subsequently, drop babies (aka flesh boogers). I wouldn’t mess with lighting as that could cause more harm than good for the entirety of your tank. If that were my tank and I was trying to get that Jawbreaker to reproduce, I would figure out a way to get a little more flow directed at it. That should be enough to irritate it a bit and get it to move without causing any harm to anything.

But, be careful. If you successfully make it mad without causing health to decline you could end up with this…



This is my high light, high flow, low nutrient Jawbreaker propagation tank. This is the result of effectively making these guys mad, yet still healthy.

 

[Foneman02]

So the issue that you’re likely having is that your Jawbreaker is quite content with where you’ve placed it. They reproduce by leaving little flesh boogers (yes, that is the correct scientific term!) as they move, and they will typically move because they don’t find something about their current location ideal.

Whether that be lighting, flow, nutrient levels, irritants from neighboring corals… or any combination of those factors, those are the things that will get them to start to wander and subsequently, drop babies (aka flesh boogers). I wouldn’t mess with lighting as that could cause more harm than good for the entirety of your tank. If that were my tank and I was trying to get that Jawbreaker to reproduce, I would figure out a way to get a little more flow directed at it. That should be enough to irritate it a bit and get it to move without causing any harm to anything.

But, be careful. If you successfully make it mad without causing health to decline you could end up with this…



This is my high light, high flow, low nutrient Jawbreaker propagation tank. This is the result of effectively making these guys mad, yet still healthy.

I was told get a tooth pick and stab it in the foot. This will cause it to move and leave some flesh boogers behind.

 

[DIYreefer]

I was told get a tooth pick and stab it in the foot. This will cause it to move and leave some flesh boogers behind.

That may very well work, but I’ve never tried anything like that. However, I have cut them before and the cuttings will form a new polyp within a month or so. That can be kind of tricky, though, because you have to place the cuttings somewhere where they can attach to something and not get blown away by the flow in the tank.

 

[Foneman02]

So the issue that you’re likely having is that your Jawbreaker is quite content with where you’ve placed it. They reproduce by leaving little flesh boogers (yes, that is the correct scientific term!) as they move, and they will typically move because they don’t find something about their current location ideal.

Whether that be lighting, flow, nutrient levels, irritants from neighboring corals… or any combination of those factors, those are the things that will get them to start to wander and subsequently, drop babies (aka flesh boogers). I wouldn’t mess with lighting as that could cause more harm than good for the entirety of your tank. If that were my tank and I was trying to get that Jawbreaker to reproduce, I would figure out a way to get a little more flow directed at it. That should be enough to irritate it a bit and get it to move without causing any harm to anything.

But, be careful. If you successfully make it mad without causing health to decline you could end up with this…



This is my high light, high flow, low nutrient Jawbreaker propagation tank. This is the result of effectively making these guys mad, yet still healthy.

You got a small fortune there

 

[Daniel@R2R]

So the issue that you’re likely having is that your Jawbreaker is quite content with where you’ve placed it. They reproduce by leaving little flesh boogers (yes, that is the correct scientific term!) as they move, and they will typically move because they don’t find something about their current location ideal.

Whether that be lighting, flow, nutrient levels, irritants from neighboring corals… or any combination of those factors, those are the things that will get them to start to wander and subsequently, drop babies (aka flesh boogers). I wouldn’t mess with lighting as that could cause more harm than good for the entirety of your tank. If that were my tank and I was trying to get that Jawbreaker to reproduce, I would figure out a way to get a little more flow directed at it. That should be enough to irritate it a bit and get it to move without causing any harm to anything.

But, be careful. If you successfully make it mad without causing health to decline you could end up with this…



This is my high light, high flow, low nutrient Jawbreaker propagation tank. This is the result of effectively making these guys mad, yet still healthy.

Holy cow!! That's a crazy amount of jawbreakers!!

 

[DIYreefer]

You got a small fortune there

Holy cow!! That's a crazy amount of jawbreakers!!

It’s a lot for sure. I’ve added another tank to the system with the intent to do basically the same thing but it has frag racks. So it’s pulling double duty as a Jawbreaker grow out tank and a holding tank for SPS frags.