Mushroom/Ricordea

[snfkotara]

Gluing mushroom never seem to work for me so I ask a pro and was told and have start doing this:

1. you need a nursery box or net
2. Live rock rubble (I found the smaller the better)
3. mushroom or ricordea

Put the live rock rubble in the bottom of the breeder box. make sure to cover the entire bottom.
Then add the loose mushroom or ricordea and in a few day it will attach to 1 of the pieces of live rock. I then will glue the rock it attached to on my ricordea rainbow rock or any rock you want.

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[Pennies2Cents]

Wow, Sherry, This is a great Idea! Thanks for sharing! :) Nice rics by the way! :)

[snfkotara]

Your welcome and thank you!! I hate when the new one fall off and float around the tank so that how i came around to finding this technique.

[mabel_photo6]

That's a good deal!
I do that with my Finger Leather Coral.
Pieces always get shoved off so I take a plastic container and fill it with pieces of rubble.
Like your mushrooms, my leather coral attached itself to a piece of rubble. :)
I like it better that way... I've never used glue... I'm scared... I'm new at it. lol

[timmytimtim]

How do you get the mushroom "loose"? I have a rock that has about 15 rics budding out on it.

[stoneroller]

If you can chip away under the foot of the mushroom, it'll be better. That way it'll be attached to its rock and you can then reglue that piece. You can use a chisel, scalpel, or my favorite, the stainless bone cutters (PC: coral nippers).

[timmytimtim]

thanks. I used tin snips to frag some button polyps. I just cut the rock and the frags are doing great. Isn't this hobby the best...what else would we be doing with our time? LOL

[Rychek]

I like the plastic box a lot. It looks like it would easier to use than the baby food jar I've been using for the last year.

[snfkotara]

I have a pair of utility scirrors that I use to get a shaving of the rock if it is attached to a large rock and then like Stoneroller said reglue it.

[Third Coast Tropical]

That is one nice mushroom rock you have going there. Very nice ricordea.

[snfkotara]

Thank you, You should see the Yuma. They are my very favorite.

[Kyle46N]

I use the same technique, except I have 2 10 gallon tanks with crushed oyster shell in one and crushed coral in the other. I take a shroom rock, grab the scissors and take out my frustration on some shrooms or rics....lol. A week later the bottom of the tank has new shrooms/rics attached to shell and ready to be glued somewhere. Easy fragging.

[nubz]

SWEETNESSS!!!