Freshly Fragged Shrooms

Birchell · 02-26-2007, 04:19 PM

Well I thought I would snap a photo of my shrooms this time. I fragged my hariy shrooms again. All I did was remove the main rock they were on, and scraped one off. Then I put the mother colony back in the tank to reduce the amount of stress they got. Then I got a razor blade and cut the shroom in half, and made sure I got a part of the mouth on both pieces. After that, I got a piece of rock rubble, and super glued them to it. They are acclamating right now, in low flow. In a few hours, to a day they should be up a going again. Then I can trade them in my next club meeting,

. Ive never fragged xenia, but it will be next. Hope the pic helps. If you have any questions about fraggin shrooms let me know. It is really easy because shrooms are really hardy and heal very quickly.

Michael

coral reefer · 02-26-2007, 04:24 PM

I tell ya Michael, my Xenia grow and spread so fast that I couldn't possibly imagine having to frag them... My whole left side of my glass in my 125 is covered by 27 Xenia stalks and that isn't counting the Xenia that is still attached to my live rock below!!! Hahahaa
I am going to have to remove some and sell or trade them!!!! They are the nice White polyped ones that pulse like crazy...
Nice job with the shrooms!

Birchell · 02-26-2007, 04:26 PM

Thanks bud. My xenia is doing the same thing. I started with two smaller stalks like 2 months ago. Now I have over 7!!! They are spliting daily.... I still think they are a really cool frag. They will pay for them self in no time, lol.

monkey · 02-26-2007, 04:49 PM

yeah im on the same boat. xenia is spreading like fire, and my star polyps turned to dust...

Birchell · 02-26-2007, 04:53 PM

Ah.... I hate to hear about your stars!! They are suppost to be realy easy to care for. Oh well, there is always next time for those guys!! They are everywere.

Birchell · 02-26-2007, 04:55 PM

One last thing. Shrooms stink really bad when they are mad!! My fingers still stink, and I can almost taste it in my mouth

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monkey · 02-26-2007, 05:38 PM

yeah i still cant figure out what it was... everything else is doing fine, but i think maybe it was because i raised the calcium... and added more light. i had those things for years.

amcarrig · 02-27-2007, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Birchell

One last thing. Shrooms stink really bad when they are mad!! My fingers still stink, and I can almost taste it in my mouth

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Rub your fingers against something that's made out of stainless steel. Seems to reduce the stench when I do this.

Birchell · 02-27-2007, 03:07 PM

Thanks for the pointer. Ill have to try that next time.

pshootr · 03-03-2007, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Birchell

One last thing. Shrooms stink really bad when they are mad!! My fingers still stink, and I can almost taste it in my mouth

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I remeber reading some where that some corals have toxins that can be harmful to you. I believe the artical recomended useing some rubber gloves while fragging them. I Can't remember which corals have harmful toxins though.