Pisces' mushroom collection

pisces4u · Sep 17, 2009

Well, my girlfriend has a thing for mushrooms so along with the standard blue, purple, red, and striped mushrooms I've been talked into buying, I have also picked up some nice rarer ones.
Here are a couple pics of my more unusual ones.
No idea what this one is. Was sold to us as an Elephant Ear, but it's only about 3" atm and has longer/pointier tentacles than I've ever seen on an elephant ear. Also a sick metallic green color.

Frilly mushroom I guess. The tentacles are much longer and thicker than the standard frilly/hairy mushrooms we see daily.

Rainbow mushroom of some sort. Still very small and growing very slowly in the shade or light it doesn't matter.

Purple, blue, and green yumas. Bought these two as "twins", two identical polyps on a piece of crushed coral on the bottom of a LFS tank. Interesting to see how the growth has differed as one receives more light and flow.

More yumas

Green corallimorph garden. Ricordia yuma and florida, striped, rhodactis, unknowns, and frilly all the way in the back.

oceanparadise1 · Sep 17, 2009

Nice bro, ima have to get you some of my superman mushrooms they are a sick reb and blue!

pisces4u · Sep 17, 2009

Lol yeah I have so many Superman mushrooms it isn't funny. I have this rock of them that budd off like 1 a week and the babies always release so all my low flow areas have baby superman shrooms popping up.

oceanparadise1 · Sep 17, 2009

hahah yea i have that problems hence why i was gonna give them to you lol

ahayes13 · Sep 17, 2009

wow, nice collection. i love the first and third ones.

Russellaqua · Sep 17, 2009

very nice

shiznit_reef · Sep 17, 2009

awesome shrooms

Sea MunnKey · Sep 18, 2009

Unfortunately I missed out on a Three piece mushroom colony on a rock ... Neon Yellow dots with Blue base ... makes me really wanna cry ... :cry: and on another previous shipment I'd missed out on a Neon Blue dots with Purple base mushroom too!! My LFS buddy told me after the fact ... my "so-called" buddy ... riiighhhtttt:mad:
Life sucks when ya can't get your hands on these beauties :sure:!!

Paul

pisces4u · Sep 19, 2009

Yeah man.
Luckily we have 5 salt water reef shops within a 30 minute drive. The problem is getting to each the day after shipment to get the pick of the pieces can be a full time job =(

I count myself lucky enough to have stumbled on these few pieces before anyone else. Honestly though, most of them started extremely small, about half the size of a dime. It's worth spending some time looking at the small "homeless" pieces that collect in the bottom of LFS tanks.

pisces4u · Sep 27, 2009

So I finally broke down and started a mushroom aquarium for the woman. The tank is a 37g hex with stand we picked up for free on Cl. The light is a 4xt5ho FNI that I traded frags for. I also switched out bulbs so it won't fry the softies. It currently has 2 geismann pure actinic, 1 actinic+, and 1 aquablue+. We did spend a good chunk of change to get premium tonga branch for the scaping and I've seen some pretty killer tanks with it. Flow and filtration is from an AC70 atm.

Here's a 3 side FTS:

It's been running a week now and we're seeing a minor algae bloom, some diatoms on the sand and filamentous on the glass. I chucked in some hermits and snails to start the battle and as soon as things settle, I'll start the deportation of all mushrooms from the 50g to the hex.

Here's a new Yuma we picked up also. It's a 4" nuclear beast.