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Remove a Mushroom or Ricordia?

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jazzsam

I have some Ricorida and mushrooms that I would like to remove from a rock and move to another tank. How would I go about doing this?
 
panmanmatt

panmanmatt

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Can you get the rock out of the tank? If so you can use a dremel to cut away part of the rock with the mushroom on it.
 
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harryk

you cut the mushroom off at the foot close to the rock its already attached too. Just use bridal veil netting to attach to the new rock. place the netting over it where you want the mushroom to attach so it doesn's slip of and it will attach there. It takes about a week or so to attach. Also you will get a new one growing from the foot you left behind. I'm not sure about Ricordias, but my guess it would be the same method.

Harry
 
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mladencovic

harryk said:
you cut the mushroom off at the foot close to the rock its already attached too. Just use bridal veil netting to attach to the new rock. place the netting over it where you want the mushroom to attach so it doesn's slip of and it will attach there. It takes about a week or so to attach. Also you will get a new one growing from the foot you left behind. I'm not sure about Ricordias, but my guess it would be the same method.

Harry
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Rics are probably even tougher (at least mine is). I butchered mine into several tiny pieces while trying to remove it from a crevice it anchored in. In the end, all of the pieces are surviving 2-3 weeks later. If you want them completely removed, use some kind of scalpel knife to pry/scrub them off the surface, or bone cutters to cut a bit of LR at the foot.
 
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jazzsam

Anyone that wants a free purple mushroom or two and that wants to get a couple for me can come over and try next week sometime. I would like to move it to another tank but I want to keep the rock it is on in the other tank.
 
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