Shrooms! Eye Candy Thread (all types and varieties)

AquaDaddy · Aug 31, 2020

We can't even remember where we got these, and while they don't have lots of color, they have great character. Almost like a greenish/teal bounce only singularly colored. Any idea what it is?

AbeParis · Aug 31, 2020

My little collection!

minus9 · Aug 31, 2020

Just a crappy updated pic of sprinkles. It's hard to tell, but she's developing a bubble (bounce).

minus9 · Aug 31, 2020

You can kinda see it here, but she also could be dropping a baby too? All I know, is she is really responding well to the reef moonshiners program. Maybe the Rubidium addition really helps?

blasterman · Aug 31, 2020

While not as exotic as most of the varieties in this thread here is an interesting picture of a colony of common purples i had in a 70gal 15 years ago. Taken under pure white light (flash). For some reason they grew to huge sizes in this tank and this one here was almost 6" across. You don't see purples that much anymore even though they are far less aggressive than many common rhodactis.They can get big though, and spread fast.. t

minus9 · Sep 1, 2020

blasterman said:
While not as exotic as most of the varieties in this thread here is an interesting picture of a colony of common purples i had in a 70gal 15 years ago. Taken under pure white light (flash). For some reason they grew to huge sizes in this tank and this one here was almost 6" across. You don't see purples that much anymore even though they are far less aggressive than many common rhodactis.They can get big though, and spread fast.. t

In the 90's most of my rock was covered with mushrooms at the base and they were pretty big too. I couldn't give them away fast enough and probably threw mounds of them away. We did a lot of crazy things back then.

LRT · Sep 1, 2020

minus9 said:
In the 90's most of my rock was covered with mushrooms at the base and they were pretty big too. I couldn't give them away fast enough and probably threw mounds of them away. We did a lot of crazy things back then.

Yeah I loved the purple tongas back then. Used to chop them up like pizzas and sell them back to lfs for store credit.
Still one of my favorites

minus9 · Sep 1, 2020

LRT said:
Yeah I loved the purple tongas back then. Used to chop them up like pizzas and sell them back to lfs for store credit.
Still one of my favorites

Yeah, those were pretty cool. I had tons of pics, but lost them when we moved to SoCal. Lots of shrooms, zoas, leathers and some crazy cool brains. Ricordias were crazy colorful too.

SAWFISH · Sep 1, 2020

These mushrooms are awesome. This thread makes me want to put only mushrooms in my 90 gallon shallow o_O

LRT · Sep 1, 2020

SAWFISH said:
These mushrooms are awesome. This thread makes me want to put only mushrooms in my 90 gallon shallow o_O

Lol do it

minus9 · Sep 1, 2020

Here's a slightly less crappier pic than the last one. I can see a couple "bubbles" developing here. This one keeps evolving.

Thaxxx · Sep 1, 2020

What kind of shroon is this?

minus9 · Sep 1, 2020

Thaxxx said:
What kind of shroon is this?

Sideshow Bob! Fungia meets rhodactis.

blasterman · Sep 1, 2020

minus9 said:
In the 90's most of my rock was covered with mushrooms at the base and they were pretty big too. I couldn't give them away fast enough and probably threw mounds of them away. We did a lot of crazy things back then.

Purple / blue discoma shrooms are under rated. As I recall the ones in my pic were in tank with lots of iodine and a nitrate level of 50. Why they grew so crazy. I got a nice on some rock recently with red / teal and purple discoma on it, so I'm growing them back out.

Just my own experience, but I've found rhodactis shrooms no matter how pretty they are either grow pathetically slow, or are invasive as all heck.

minus9 · Sep 1, 2020

blasterman said:
Purple / blue discoma shrooms are under rated. As I recall the ones in my pic were in tank with lots of iodine and a nitrate level of 50. Why they grew so crazy. I got a nice on some rock recently with red / teal and purple discoma on it, so I'm growing them back out.

Just my own experience, but I've found rhodactis shrooms no matter how pretty they are either grow pathetically slow, or are invasive as all heck.

Couldn't agree more. I think discosomas were the preference, along with ricordea back then. I have some green rhodactis that I would love to get out of my tank, but there on a rock with my gorgonian.