Share your Mushroom gardens! I wanna see them Shrooms!

BighohoReef · Jul 1, 2020

@LRT That is a mushroom garden! I ordered some tubs, PVC and unions... My wife is gonna kill me, I warned her when I showed her your post

Are you going to add any more rocks? What kind of lighting do you have over it? I have some extra T5s I'm gonna throw over the tank.

BighohoReef · Jul 1, 2020

Was there a response in there somewhere?

LRT · Jul 1, 2020

BighohoReef said:
@LRT That is a mushroom garden! I ordered some tubs, PVC and unions... My wife is gonna kill me, I warned her when I showed her your post Are you going to add any more rocks? What kind of lighting do you have over it? I have some extra T5s I'm gonna throw over the tank.

Lol man super cool! She's probably expecting it haha.
What kind of tubs did you decide to go with?
Bulkheads sizes? I used all 1" because I had them left over. If I could have done it different I'd use 1.5" or 2" where I put the equalizers. Wouldnt have needed the side tubing had I done it that way.
I put it all together, minus the pvc return, with reef safe silicone so far no leaks.
Right now I'm still using the black boxes. Over the shroom table I have a 165 watt. Super bright.
I ordered a photon v2+ and cant wait until it gets here i feel i can do better with correct spectrum set and the ability to control each channel. Really stoked on the new lamp! Have a par meter on stand by so I dont fry anything up. I guess the photons put out tons of light. I'm just looking for the spectrum lol.
On my next table I think I'm going with the deep hydro flood tables for more space and depth.
And yeah I still have a bunch of crushed coral I'm slowly adding to the system. I'm probably going to soak the rest in fritz and let it do its things for awhile.
Plan is to just let them propagate and snatch the babies and put them on plugs in the frag racks.
Hopefully everything comes together here soon

teejay210 · Jul 1, 2020

This is a couple pics from my mushroom collection.... if anyone knows a place I can get a good deal on a magic carpet mushroom please lmk..

LRT · Jul 1, 2020

teejay210 said:
This is a couple pics from my mushroom collection.... if anyone knows a place I can get a good deal on a magic carpet mushroom please lmk..

Cant figure out how to link the thread but if you check out @diverdown he has some really nice stuff. Is where I got mine.

SR Reefing · Jul 1, 2020

Mountain of gold
Rock full of these blue and orange mushrooms.

I also got these Caribbean bounce coupe years back. Something that looks really cool, but it didn't bounce when I brought it. It didn't look like anything at all. But now they are hot ...I name it SR Crazy Bounce.
Mama now over 7" across.

teejay210 · Jul 1, 2020

I had this elephant ear mushroom that overgrew my tank it was about 14 inches across

DCoralJunkee · Jul 9, 2020

3 times a charm, I had this ****** die on me 2 times, 1. I got from an offer up sale, the 2nd. from Cali kid corals, and now he's back with a vengeance. Look at all that purple!!! And the 2nd pic is an unknown with green spot starting to form... Possibly a bootleg Candy crush?

BighohoReef · Jul 12, 2020

@LRT Picked up a couple of new mushrooms on Friday... SK Bounce was $40 hidden in the back of a LFS tank (mislabeled) and the Yuma was from a rock my buddy was selling (I’m happy they both have bubbles)

Mr_Knightley · Jul 12, 2020

Lucky! My LFS bought a "bounce" for one of their displays a year or so ago, it had one tiny orange bubble that it lost instantly. Right now it looks like any ordinary green rhodactis, I may actually see if they'll trade it to me for frags of my white bounce.

LRT · Jul 12, 2020

BighohoReef said:
@LRT Picked up a couple of new mushrooms on Friday... SK Bounce was $40 hidden in the back of a LFS tank (mislabeled) and the Yuma was from a rock my buddy was selling (I’m happy they both have bubbles)

Nice score again! I'm going to have to hit up your lfs next time we go visit family!

BighohoReef · Jul 12, 2020

LRT said:
Nice score again! I'm going to have to hit up your lfs next time we go visit family!

If I can figure out how to propagate these and figure out shipping... hopefully I could send ya a few. How’s your garden coming along?

LRT · Jul 13, 2020

Mushroom garden 2.0 lol.
Quick update on the experiment and cpl shots from the garden.
Dealing with the nuisance algae but with a little help from myself the CUC is able to kinda keep up so dont mind the red hair algae!
Anyhow my golden gonzo split.
Have a feeling my OG is getting ready to split as well. Idk if was the change to rock garden or recently hanging a new lamp but the shrooms are beginning to walk around a little and starting to make babies

This ones pretty cool got it as in named bounce in a pack from a reefer here. Starting to bounce and digging the color for sure.

OG

Toxic and baby

SK

JB babies

Golden gonzos

Reverse Maui

BighohoReef · Jul 13, 2020

LRT said:
Mushroom garden 2.0 lol.
Quick update on the experiment and cpl shots from the garden.
Dealing with the nuisance algae but with a little help from myself the CUC is able to kinda keep up so dont mind the red hair algae!
Anyhow my golden gonzo split.
Have a feeling my OG is getting ready to split as well. Idk if was the change to rock garden or recently hanging a new lamp but the shrooms are beginning to walk around a little and starting to make babies
This ones pretty cool got it as in named bounce in a pack from a reefer here. Starting to bounce and digging the color for sure.

OG

Toxic and baby

SK

JB babies

Golden gonzos

Reverse Maui

I wish there was a "Coral Reviver" award, your mushrooms definitely have come back!

@LRT what kind of camera are you taking photos with?

LRT · Jul 13, 2020

BighohoReef said:
I wish there was a "Coral Reviver" award, your mushrooms definitely have come back!

@LRT what kind of camera are you taking photos with?

Dude you wouldnt believe the the abuse i have put these shrooms through. Trust me if I can grow shrooms anyone can. To be honest I've had my fair share of learning experiences now.
Just recently setting up new lamp. I didnt realize I was running through the settings live while changing things up. Needles to say almost all of them freaked out and spilled guts.
They are fine today man but I almost had a heart attack. Good thing I feed them well man.
If I cam make it through this year with these shrooms I can do anything lol

Taking pix with my s9 on pro mode. No filters I just try to tweak the setting to get proper balance and look I see looking at them.
We do have a canon I have to play with and try to get better pix just no time.

SR Reefing · Jul 13, 2020

Oh I have recently add a new Gonzo's Golden Dragon Bounce into my collection as well. So I share it here.

LG v60 phone with orange filter.

LRT · Jul 13, 2020

SR Reefing said:
Oh I have recently add a new Gonzo's Golden Dragon Bounce into my collection as well. So I share it here.

LG v60 phone with orange filter.

Awesome.
I'm hoping to get mine to color up like yours are with the new lamp.
What are you feeding?
Parameters far as Nitrate and Phosphate?
Par?
Very nice nice shrooms man!

SR Reefing · Jul 13, 2020

LRT said:
Awesome.
I'm hoping to get mine to color up like yours are with the new lamp.
What are you feeding?
Parameters far as Nitrate and Phosphate?
Par?
Very nice nice shrooms man!

I am using Reef Crystal so Alk 10 Cal 400 No3 1 Po4 0.03 Using kessil 360we soon upgrade to G5 XR15 on my mushroom garden.

No feeding. Maybe it's just kessil doing a good job, I will know for sure when I upgrade my light.