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Hello,

I decided to start a mushroom dominated tank since they are my favorite coral. They are in a 5.5 gallon aquarium with a current usa 36 watt t5 ho light fixture, and a hob filter that came from a picotope. The livestock includes a bicolor dottyback and 2 snails. I plan on adding 2 nicely colored hermit crabs and of course more mushrooms. The pictures were taken with my samsung camera phone so the pictures does not do the colors of these mushrooms justice. I have a few other mushroom that i did not photo since they were a little pissed.

 

The tank is topped off with a 1/2 cup of water daily and a weekly 4 cup water change using water from my other tank.

 

I will continue to update the thread as i add new mushrooms. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

 

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Edited by collegeman

I've got a couple georgous watermelon mushrooms you don't have yet. Bright green with red pimples, and a little white striations here and there.

Wow! I am glad you are okay. I guess everyone should be extremely careful when handling any and every type of coral.

Here are some updates of new mushrooms

 

Green with white stripes

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Green with blue tentacles

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Lavender tip hairy mushroom(needs a little tlc)

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red and blue rhodactis

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Splitting hairy mushroom

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new mushroom to the right of top splitting hairy mushroom

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FTS 1

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FTS 2

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FTS 3

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The tank looks great.

How large the Bicolor dottyback reach when fully grown? any other filtration beside the HOB filter?

The Bicolor should max out around 3in. The only thing i have as filtration is the HOB filter. It seems to be doing a pretty good job.

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