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Posted: November 08 2006 at 9:14am |
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I put a mushroom in my tank with fish that from what I read dont eat coral they are clown fish, four striped damsel, blue tailed damsel, velvet damsel and engineer gody but someone ate it. Its gone does anyone know what could have ate it?
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 9:18am |
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What kind of inverts do you have in the tank??
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 9:24am |
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nothing else is in there but copepods
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 12:11pm |
you sure it got eaten? 
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 3:49pm |
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well what else could happen to it it was there and hours later it was gone what do you think happened to it? The little piece of rock it was on is still there.
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 5:20pm |
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Won't they let loose of the rock sometimes and float around till they find a new home?
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 5:30pm |
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I have never had a mushroom let loose and move. I will bet it got blown somewhere in the tank. Check behind the rocks, etc.
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Posted: November 08 2006 at 8:04pm |
None of those fish eat Mushrooms. Even a Rock Crab would not usually eat the entire mushroom. It would rather chew on it a little bit every day. If you find snail shells coming up empty too often, it's a Rock Crab.
Mushrooms do jump and go on a walkabout. Don't worry, call and come visit me and I'll give you something to replace the Mushroom on the walkabout in your tank.
What size tank? What is the Alk and Ca of this tank? If you don't know, bring a water sample and I'll test it for you, free. 
BTW the Striped and Velvet Damsels will become the terrors of the tank and they get huge too. Are you prepared for that?
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Posted: November 09 2006 at 8:13am |
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My rabbitfish has a taste for mushrooms, zoanthids, and a lobophyllia. Go figure. Good thing I have acros and montipora...
Edited by Corwando - November 09 2006 at 8:13am
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Posted: November 09 2006 at 9:30am |
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its a 75 gal with lots of live rock so I mite never find it. I dont know the alk or ca.
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Posted: November 09 2006 at 11:26am |
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I have red mushrooms springing up all over my tank, even in the overflows, so I wouldn't worry about it. I started out with a small fist sized rock that was covered with them about 18 months ago and they have multiplied like crazy. The original rock is now very crowded with them, so they routilnely detach and blow around the tank until they find a place they like. Hopefully yours will find a place it likes and start a colony as well.
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