Mushroom splitting, or should I be concerned?

Ezeric123 · Aug 15, 2019

I've had this mushroom now for about 8 months and the other day it started to look like it was forming two semi-circles, or from what I've witnessed in the past, about to split into two. However, now the mouth started to separate and you can see its "stomach" or mesenterial filaments. I have the mushroom on a clear piece of acrylic, and you can now see through the mouth. It still seems to be rather healthy though. Generally if it looks stressed, it shrinks up and looses a lot of its "bounce". If anyone has any insight, please let me know. Here are two time lapse videos of what its doing currently. Thanks.

PegasisR · Aug 15, 2019

Ezeric123 said:
I've had this mushroom now for about 8 months and the other day it started to look like it was forming two semi-circles, or from what I've witnessed in the past, about to split into two. However, now the mouth started to separate and you can see its "stomach" or mesenterial filaments. I have the mushroom on a clear piece of acrylic, and you can now see through the mouth. It still seems to be rather healthy though. Generally if it looks stressed, it shrinks up and looses a lot of its "bounce". If anyone has any insight, please let me know. Here are two time lapse videos of what its doing currently. Thanks.

Youre fine, mushroom is definitely splitting :) Congrats on that! But do keep an eye for anything else and what you said about the mouth

Ezeric123 · Aug 15, 2019

PegasisR said:
Youre fine, mushroom is definitely splitting :) Congrats on that! But do keep an eye for anything else and what you said about the mouth

Ok, cool. That's what I assumed, but I figured I better be safe and ask just in case anything was wrong. I've only had shrooms drop babies or form two mouths and then split in the past. Thanks!

Bryson.bobby · Aug 15, 2019

I’ll take the other half off your hands if you don’t want it;)lol

Ezeric123 · Aug 15, 2019

Bryson.bobby said:
I’ll take the other half off your hands if you don’t want it;)lol

Haha, I think I'll keep it. I think one is going to end up in my display tank now instead of the frag tank

Ezeric123 · Aug 28, 2019

Update.. it seems to have had a strange split, but I'm not too mad about it...

H2Ocooled · Aug 28, 2019

I had a mushroom that had only been in my tank for a couple of weeks do this weird twisting thing and it ended up pulling itself off of the rock it was on and floating around, what was left on the rock turned into another mushroom. I ended up putting the OG one in a holder until it attached to a rock. I have never seen them do this before.