Need ideas for eradicating muchroom infestation...

ive had decent luck with shooting joes juice in the eye, then cover the entire mushroom with it. that will knock them down then i do the same to the little babys that come back every 3-5 days for a month or so. just cleaned an entire rock off like that and so far so good.

 

I recently had to tear down my tank because of a leak. When I put it back together I used only about half the LR that I was using before. I dropped the excess rock in my sump.

Then I started to remove the LR from the sump one piece at a time, every few days. I hit the tipping point one day when doing a water change. By removing rock, doing a water change, and changing the media on my sulphur reactor, I caused a cycle to start. Diatoms too.

Where I am going with this is that those mushrooms are most likely there to stay. Right? I mean, once you got an infestation of this sort (anthilla, gsp, mushrooms, etc.) there seems to be no killing them. So I would consider removing one rock at a time, cooking it, and then replacing it. After the first couple rocks you will have one going in and one coming out every time you do it. Eventually you will get through your tank. So what if it takes all summer?

The hard part was coming to grips with removing fused coral from the rock. It is hard to do....those acros fuse so nicely to rock, huh? Ha ha. When in doubt I basically just used a hammer and wedge to separate the coral from the rock. I would leave a substantial piece of base rock on the coral so I could place the coral easier later on. With this method your encrusting montis won't make it....I just fragged a bunch of them for use later. I found I want the encrusters at the top of the tank anyways....so it gives me a chance to put them EXACTLY where I want them.

 

IMO it will be good for you to take it all down to the bare bones. This way it will be like a brand new tank and will probably give you that "new tank spark". I will be setting up a new tank in the next few months but instead of just transferring everything I want to try and start fresh with all new rock and coral. Maybe even some new equipment /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/wink.gif