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Shroom basket?

erics210

NJRC Member
What do people use as shroom baskets on the bottom of the tank?
Would something like this work, I have several loose shrooms too. Will they blow out? Thoughts....IMG_20210119_231927061.jpg
 

erics210

NJRC Member
Did some tank maintenance, pump cleaning, etc with citric acid etc, and also tied in my 35 gallon frag tank yesterday which was also cleaned with muriatic acid. Anyway.
All corals were fine this morning but my ALK dropped from the usual 8.8 to 7.2 overnight. Sure it was the acid or baking soda residual used to neutralize the acid before dumping down the drain. Anyway. Added some liquid soda ash to bring it back up half way, and was planning to do the rest of the balance over the next day or so. But my main large jawbreaker popped off and joined the free floater club. Have a few mushrooms in similar state.
ANYWAY...Felt I needed something ASAP. Don't need him free floating into a torch or other.
So I took an old powerhead front, glued 4 bio ring media as a makeshift stand so it has a little downward flow and detritus doesn't build up in the powerhead, then put some of the plastic power head cover at the bottom to keep the rubble in the powerhead , chipped up some small rubble, added the shroom and used more plastic covering as a partial lid.

Not sure why I keep things like covers to broken powerheads, buti I think it came out pretty cool in a pinch! Once attached, need to look into some long term solution. The inexpensive mushrooms hold on for dear life. Jawbreakers...not so much.

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myrjon

Officer Emeritus
Officer Emeritus
Nems do what they want.If not happy they will move on you .
Plus on the shrume mobile cvs. I like the build ..Don't need him free floating.
 
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