Green Fuzzy Mushrooms

I think it would work.  I have cut the tops off of my GFM and they grow right back so I don't see any reason why splitting it in half wouldn't work.  I have done what you are talking about before  some times it makes two new shrooms and sometimes the two halves just grow back together.  Amazing.

I think (from reading other posts) that a lot of people do the pizza slice method of propagation.  So you get 8 little pieces that will grow.  They usually cut them and put them in a low water motion area of the tank, or put them in a small shallow plastic tub or dish with rubble in it in the tank.  Several different ways to do this - all of them pretty interesting!

Thanks Dave but Fuzzy King no. Addicted GFM propagator yes. Click where Dave (Sarnack) said and you'll find lot's of good info.

The green fuzzys base is different than the discasoma. So it is both difficult and unneccesary to cut at the base since cutting from the parimeter, the cuttings will grow new mouths.

Sometimes the new cuttings will deterierate. To minimize cutting deterieration I have noticed the fewer new cuttings I make at a time and the fewer cuts per new cutting the better the survival rate is for the new cuttings.

In time the cuttings will attach to sand or whatever they rest on. When this happens simply glue the sand or whatever it has become attached with to a rock. This is a temporary hold until the mushroom grows onto the rock.

It's a multi phase process not just cut, glue, done. The time from when you cut until you have an attached mushroom to a rock can be a month or two.

Well I gotta go. I hope this helps.









   

Steve - When are you going to have some blasto's for sale?  I need some for my minibow at work!

Edited by Sarnack

When the base of the fuzzy overgrows onto another rock you can cut the mushroom between the rocks and each will recover. Sometimes I just pull one or both of the rocks until the fuzzy mushroom tears. It doesn't seem to matter how you do it. They will look pretty nasty at first but in my experiences recover fine.

Sorry about the bit and piece method of fuzzy mushroom info I am giving, it's just pretty much how my brain works.

You can make a score or cut using a razor blade or scissors across a fuzzy mushroom (preferably a well attached one) and it will sometimes split in two.

All this talk tempts me to try an x style score and see if I get 4 for 1. The thing is, these green fuzzys get so big, that 4 so close might be to weird.



Edited by sjlopez39