How can I kill a mushroom

[bbyatv]

I have some mushrooms growing over and killing a piece of Sun Coral in my tank.

 

I have used a syringe to inject lemon juice, magnesium chloride, and calcium chloride in to them. The mushrooms pull back for a couple of days and then come right back out. How can I kill these things without harming the Sun Coral?

 

Thanks,

 

Bruce

[epleeds]

if you can pull the rock and cut them off, that would be the best advice i can give. those suckers are hard to kill..

[zygote2k]

Rip them off with a pair of tweezers.

[flowerseller]

if you can pull the rock and cut them off, that would be the best advice i can give. those suckers are hard to kill..

Not usless you want them there, then they're easy to kill.

Make sure you get all of it or it wil likely come back.

[jason the filter freak]

i've used kalk to pretty good effect. if you have a piece of elegance in the tank try brushing it over the mushroom for a few seconds

[Jon Lazar]

Tear the mushroom off with tweezers, and cover the remaining chunks with a piece of epoxy or something else to keep the light off it so it can't grow back.

[Jon Lazar]

if you have a piece of elegance in the tank try brushing it over the mushroom for a few seconds

 

Frogspawn works wonders too.

[treesprite]

Frogspawn works wonders too.

My shrooms withdraw when the frogspawn is too close, so this makes sense. Problem is, would the frogspawn then bother the sun coral?

[johnnybv]

aiptasia X or joes juice works well usually

[Brian Ward]

pull the rock out and chip off the section of rock the mushroom is attached to. then offer them up for sale or SWAP - there's plenty of people and/or schools that would love to have them. i tried to kill some mushrooms of mine that i have problems with to no avail, so next time I move rocks around, I'm going to chip them off for newbies.

[m3fan8ic]

I have a same issue with some elephant ear shrooms who I stabbed/cut/pulled off but that sucker just grew right back and stinging my green pocci. I'll have to try different method.

[lanman]

Frogspawn works wonders too.

 

+1 !!

 

I have a ton of green fuzzy mushrooms growing around my tank. Moved my frogspawn a couple weeks ago - and it has killed all of the 'shrooms' in the vicinity! yay!!

 

bob