Show off the biggest mushroom in your tank!

[Aquadude1]

The elephant ear I posted earlier has eaten a couple yellow tang and tried to eat a sohal

 

[PharmrJohn]

The elephant ear I posted earlier has eaten a couple yellow tang and tried to eat a sohal

Dude. That's intense!

 

[Eye H8 Empty V]

Here’s my biggest. Measures about 5” wide when fully open. I tried to color correct it but gave up. It’s much more orange and green in person. Started as a baby shroom.

 

[Peter Houde]

Got a question about mushrooms. I believe another thread concerning mushrooms and the difficulty level inherent in their removal from rock.

1.) Is this one of life's great truths and if so
2.) Is this a property of pretty much all mushrooms?

It won't inhibit my wish to have a few, but it seems that I may need to plan it out a tad more comparitively.....

Full disclosure - my experience is only with Discosoma and Rhodactis. That being said... It seems you can't just have a few. Mine are absolute weeds. They multiply like rabbits on steroids and would completely overtake the entire tank if I let them. (I saw a DT at our state museum with not so much as a square cm that wasn't covered with a Discosoma monoculture. On the other hand, I donated 30 to our university DT whereupon 29 died almost immediately and the last one has been barely hanging onto life.) At least some are capable of detaching and migrating to new areas where they spawn new colonies. The problem about their removal from rock is when you're trying to get rid of them or at least keep them under some semblance of control. Mine are toxic to SPS on contact. Worse, they exude inexhaustible volumes toxic mucous that floats all over the place when they are disturbed - as in trying to remove them from rock. Don't ever try to remove them still inside the display tank. I scrape them off little by little with a sharpened wooden ice cream stick over the kitchen sink. Next, the rock needs to be scrubbed long and hard because they'll pop right back from the most insignificant and invisible smear of cells left behind. I'd eradicate them if they weren't so darned beautiful. Besides, who doesn't want hardy thriving corals?

 

[Peter Houde]

Sorry for the glare but this is the elephant ear where I used to work. If it was able to stretch out it would be pushing 2 and a half to 3 feet.

Must be an awfully big tank

 

[Peter Houde]

Ohhhhh! Didn't know they were in the anemone family! Excellent!! Good to know!

Actually, no, they're not anemones. They're their own thing: corallimorphs. Think of something more or less in between corals and anemones, but more closely related to stony corals.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Here’s my biggest. Measures about 5” wide when fully open. I tried to color correct it but gave up. It’s much more orange and green in person. Started as a baby shroom.

Very nice looking mushroom!

 

[Aquadude1]

Must be an awfully big tank

It's a 10 foot 500 gallon tank

 

[rhaetuluscrenatus]

These 10cm and 11cm in my tanks

 

[Crimsonphoenix]

My purple tipped hairy mushrooms, anut 5 inches.