Killing live rock loaded with mushrooms ???

[rocketpop]

OK I been fighting a mushroom tank take over more more then a year now. I am sick of pulling mushrooms for trade or trash. I just wanted them gone.

Soooo I set up a 10 gallon temp tank and move my coral and my one clown fish. Everything is look good. Although my huge hammer (20+ head) is now several med size seperate coral pieces. Same thing with my frogspawn but it only broke into. Which is fine, now I just have more pieces of coral.

I took all the rock out of my tank. I scrappped, chisseled, hammered all the mushrooms off some of the rocks that had a few mushrooms on them and placed them in a bucket with a power head. This was about a 1/3 of my rock.

Now the rest of my rock that was covered with mushrooms, I sat outside in the sun.

Now finally my question, How long before I have dead rock and everything including the mushrooms are gone, never to return?

PS: I also scraped all the mushooms off the glass of the tank and cleaned the sand as well.

I HATE MUSHROOMS!!!!

 

[DaveJ]

@rocketpop wrote:

Well thats one way to remove them.... though people report that if you can actually pull the rocks out into a separate tank that using Fluke Tabs will do the job too.

Other options people have used:

Kalk injected into the disc. (Or Joe's Juice)
Lemon Juice injected.
Vinegar injected.
Hot Water injected.

 

[Firewolf4]

IF you dont mind having to recook everything, I'd give it the ole Chlorox bath(hour soak time) then soak it in ultra strong salt water in the sun for about 3 days. a Bit of amquel and rinse. then start curing it again. nothing will survive

 

[rocketpop]

I used joe's, hot water, pulling them, etc. It was a losing battle.

 

[bimmerzs]

Hi,

How about trading out with a LFS or better yet....find a newbie just starting up and trade out rock for rock. It would be a great first level coral for them and added biodiversity for your tank. :wink:

Cheers,

 

[aentrop]

I will trade you rock for rock if you want... I have about 200 pounds of rock, 1 year established 150 gallon tank...

 

[rocketpop]

Sorry guys, I have been though all of this already. I just wanted to be done with it.

I know I had a few other options but I wanted it to end with these mushrooms, I almost just gave up on the whole tank and quit the hobby all together.

All my mushroom rocks have been outside in the sun for a day now. I'm thinking about a week or two should do the trick.

 

[Guest]

You better hurry before the sun goes away, i can feel it going away and the cold front coming, better get that free Humid heat while you can.

 

[rocketpop]

I brought them in already and I placed all my rock back into my tank. I am cycling now. After the shrooms dried out, I scraped them off the rocks so nothing remained.

 

[Chikky]

Do you dose with iodine? What kind of setup do you have and what kind of mushrooms are taking over your tank? I have a hard time keeping mushrooms for some reason. the red ones in particular never last in in my current 150 and 33. Ricardia's are doing well though.

 

[rocketpop]

I never dosed anything and to tell you the truth I didn't take good care of the tank the last 6-7 months. I guess it was just the right condition for them to grow. I have a 37 gallon tank, with 150w sunpod and a bakpak skimmer.

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[fejus]

Why are you killing them you will get $$$ or credit at fish stores for the trade in ... don't just kill em

 

[rocketpop]

I did that for awhile but I could not keep up, I just was tired of dealing with them and they were taking over the whole tank.

They are gone now....

 

[DaveJ]

@rocketpop wrote:

Had to fix that I've them survive 4 months in a trash can, no light and a stuck heater that 'cooked' the rock and made LR soup at about 100 degress overnight. They are persistent buggers.

 

[rocketpop]

I hope for good, I left them out in the Texas sun for about 2 days and then chipped them off the rock. I hope I got them ALL. If I see one reappear, I will have 45# of rocks for sale. LOL