splitting mushroom

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  1. homegrowncorals

    homegrowncorals Ribbon Eel

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    Here are pictures of a mushroom splitting 1 mushroom into 3. I took the pictures over a few days and made a slide show of them.

    click on the photo for slide show

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  2. Zzippper

    Zzippper Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Nice shrooms!

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  3. Hackem688

    Hackem688 Millepora

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    mushroom are one of my favs. can you give ant tips so i can split mine

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  4. homegrowncorals

    homegrowncorals Ribbon Eel

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    i guess there just happy started with 3 a year ago and they just keep splitting i got like 30 now wish my red ones would start splitting like that
     
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  5. Hackem688

    Hackem688 Millepora

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    do you remove them from there rock & if so how mine are about 8 months old
     
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  6. homegrowncorals

    homegrowncorals Ribbon Eel

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    when i got mine they came on a frag plug as the mushrooms split and coverd the plug i just kept splitting the plug and then glued it on 2 plugs and on now i got 7 plugs with 4 or 5 mushrooms on each
     
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  7. Hackem688

    Hackem688 Millepora

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    sorry for the dumb quistions but whats a frag plug
     
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  8. homegrowncorals

    homegrowncorals Ribbon Eel

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    there many types ans sizes some round some square some shaped like a oversized golf tee i make my own there shaped like a cone and you glue a coral frag on it.

    if you can check out this live feed of my frag/grow out tank it might give you a better idea than i can explain it.

    LIVE: Reefkeeper frag tank live video
     
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  9. Hackem688

    Hackem688 Millepora

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    Ok I get it thats kinda what i was thinking but wasent sure
     
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  10. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    where are you shrooms placed in your tank
     
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