How Do Make Mushrooms Spilt???

[kennykoo82]

Hi got a few pcs of yumas and green mushrooms kept for few mths liao but dun seems to grow or spilt lei but saw a few reefers can make their yumas or mushrooms split how to do tat ar???wanna know can some of the expert reefer tell me how

[tineng]

not an expert.....but i guess water parameter and patience has a lot to do with it....

for me i find dosing idonie helps.....

[ervine]

try reading up on mushroom (sea, not land mushroom) propogation, if I'm not mistaken u can actually force it to split by either chopping it up (messy, I've tried) or using a rubber band tied around the shroom to make it split..

The natural way seems way too long.. I've one rock with 3 mouths, 1 of them already twice the size of 50cent coin but no signs of splitting...

[tineng]

not really, i had an accidental frag of less then 1 cent that splits to now 10 peices.....without using any forced propogation techniques.....

i think a lot have to do with the speices of the mushie also, as my green hairy mushroom only split once while the purple mushies mentioned have split lots of them already........

[blueheaven]

Chopping mushies up is a great experience for a beginner coral farmer

It might be messy but quite fun too

And I've also noticed that propagated mushies split really fast!! I had a red discosoma frag now having it's 5th generation

[zephyros]

my mushi did not split as in split in half, but the mother decide to

move a bit and while moving, left 3 new daugther polyps on the way

[kennykoo82]

Erm wat does it mean by chopping??can any reefer explain??

i was hoping to spilt my orange yumas lo

[ervine]

Erm wat does it mean by chopping??can any reefer explain??

i was hoping to spilt my orange yumas lo

you basically snip it off at it's base, then segment the piece into a few pieces (like a pizza) then stick em back...

I've tried it but to limited success...

[blueheaven]

Bro ervine, you only cut off the disk

The base will grow into a new polyp so the closer to the disk, the better.

And like you said, cut the disk into pizza slices and place them in a place of gentle water flow.

So far, I've had 100% success with mushroom propagation and with a little practice, everyone can do so too

[ervine]

Bro ervine, you only cut off the disk

Yups i meant that... haha sorry if I mislead anyone!...

[ervine]

actually if I'm not wrong the most common cause of failure is that the sliced up shroom gets blown away by current coz it wasn't secured properly... not that it doesn't make it...

[kennykoo82]

wah veri chim lei cant understand like doing surgery man any pic to show???

[blueheaven]

If I got time, I post a photo workshop for you guys

Maybe tomorrow if i have the time

[ervine]

see if u can understand my shoddy diagram... hehe...

for the cutting I can't rememeber but I think u are not supposed to slice up the mouth...

[zephyros]

u can oso use a veil type material to hold the cut piece to a small LR

or coral chip, so that it would get blown away.

[blueheaven]

I'm thinking whether you can actually rubber band them on a coral chip

Maybe I should try

[ervine]

I'm thinking whether you can actually rubber band them on a coral chip

Maybe I should try

yup some people have done that before.. but I think if you tie it too tightly it will cause the shroom frag to split where the rubber band is... which might in the end result in shrooms being blown away again

[blueheaven]

What about toothpick

[giantbicycle]

What about toothpick

It wont do well with flat surface rock, needs holes for the toothpick to secure..

[blueheaven]

Good point

[ervine]

What about toothpick

how to use toothpick??

[blueheaven]

Just poke it through the flesh and into the chip

I've seen it done on LR before

[kennykoo82]

WOW so many method of spiltting.Any way thanks those reefer for the advise will try to do the spilt of the mushroom.

[gunzo]

hey .. is that the only way for the mushies to propagate ??

I found alot of tiny mushies growing in my tank now .. the original wasn't even a mushy rock .. just LR with 2-3 dying mushrooms ..

these new mushrooms are growing on my sandbeds !

[blueheaven]

They probably come from budding

The most difficult corallimorph I've encountered by far are the yumas

They seem to like being solitary polyps