Need Help With Detached Shroom

[theuksnoobreefer]

Hey all!

I have a red discosoma mushroom which I have had for around 2 months. All was going well, and it was really growing. I cleaned my return pump out as I noticed the flow had gone a bit poor, and since doing that my shroom was looking a bit stressed.

I moved the shroom to a different location in the tank and in the morning noticed the shroom had detached itself from the frag plug. There's still something on the frag plug though? Is this it's foot?

I managed to glue the floating shroom to a piece of rock in my tank, but today it's detached itself again!

I've seen people say to place it in a container with some rubble, but the issue is I have no rubble in my tank to use!

Can anyone help? I really don't want to lose it.

 

[jadedog]

Since you dont have rubble rock do you have any epoxy? Maybe you can roll it up into some "rubble" and let it get hard then place it into the container?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Glue won't work, it has to attach itself. Sometimes I just set them into low flow area's and they attach themselves. I used to do the glass and rubble thing but now have so many loose mushrooms that I would permanently have a cup in my tank

 

[VintageReefer]

You can not glue a shroom. It must attach to something willingly, then you can glue that thing where you want, and it’s 50/50 if it stays there long term


Take a Tupperware, or cup, weigh it down with sand, put a few plugs in level with the ground and give it a week or two and see if it attaches

 

[theuksnoobreefer]

I have a tub of unused seachem matrix, would that be usable as "rubble"?

 

[VintageReefer]

I have a tub of unused seachem matrix, would that be usable as "rubble"?

Yes, it works well for this

 

[theuksnoobreefer]

Yes, it works well for this

Cheers,

so a little shot glass/container with some seachem matrix, in a low flow area? and fingers crossed it should attach to one?

 

[VintageReefer]

Yes. If the flow is low enough you might not need a lid

 

[theuksnoobreefer]

Yes. If the flow is low enough you might not need a lid

Fingers crossed, I'm planning on placing it behind one of the rocks in the corner where next to no flow is present.

Cheers for your help!

 

[CrewePD210]

Ive used a piece of an onion bag and a rubber bad on a rock, left it a couple of weeks, took off the bag and its has been doing great.

 

[theuksnoobreefer]

I've managed to get some rubble in a small pot (funnily enough, what my frags were shipped in). I'm so hoping this recovers and I can begin to enjoy my tank again lol.

 

[Telperion]

I wouldn't recommend using a cup/jar. The high walls will block the flow and cause the water to stagnate in the cup and potentially kill the shroom.
Go to your local asian market. They usually have a wide variety of different types of strainers, colanders, slotted baskets, and more. (I found a slotted basket that was designed for silverware to drain, which was small enough for my smaller tank.) Even if you can't attach it to some rubble, it will attach to the basket and should do fine. The big thing is that you don't want to cut out its flow, or the shroom will slowly deteriorate

 

[BryanM]

I have a lot of live rock, and to get this to work I Just placed the shroom on the rock, and then covered it with anything that would keep it there and let water flow through. Now its attached and making babies that attach.

One fell, and I left it.

 

[richserpe]

I had a jawbreaker detach and found him faceplanted on the substrate. Jawbreakers ain't cheap so I wasn't going to let him become crab food. I read an article that said put him on a piece of live rock and cover him with a soft mesh material like a bridal veil and put him in a low light/low flow area of the tank. I have mine in the back of the tank on the sand right under a wavemaker so flow is almost non existant and the crabs can't get to him. Cover loosely and rubber band the material over him without touching or squashing him. I just started this a couple of days ago. I'll repost in a couple of weeks to check my progress.

 

[NeedAReef]

I use an acclimation box as they have holes and stuff for flow but even up high its walls block most flow. I put rocks, old snail and crab shells even old plug where stuff died off. eventually they attach to something they like and you are good.