how you doing hey how are you today all
right you just picked some stuff up from
mike or
no i'm just one of the friends
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all right guys today i'm going to show
you how i'm setting up my 20 gallon
discosoma dominated tank
mushrooms obviously when i get mushrooms
or any kind of coral i have to go to
fish guy mics
every time i come in here he's in the
duncans these are nice colorful shrooms
on here the live rock i have in there
now have been in there for about three
or four weeks with light on them
so i always go slow to see if anything
is going to grow on the rock maybe some
unwanted algae i don't want to cover
this with mushrooms and then have stuff
i don't see any algae in your tanks
right now it doesn't mean that may not
happen but it's just a little more
security for me the rock structure in
here i cemented together with e marco
cement my kenya tree were left over from
the 20 gallon when it was a mixed reef
so i thought i'd leave those in there
and it creates a nice filler and a nice
display area but everything else will be
discosoma or mushrooms my green star
polyp i'm definitely going to try to
keep them off the rock structure and
i'll do that just by cropping it back so
it doesn't connect to the rock structure
look at the size of these guys oh my
gosh oh you did something different here
like you removed something or 20 gallon
yeah
ah that looks good yeah this is good so
here they are
i'll float these mushrooms for about 15
or 20 minutes to temperature acclimate
and then i will pour some water in every
10 minutes or so add water to this take
some out that method water quality with
mushrooms you have some leeway if you
recall my 20 gallon ran a pretty high
phosphate level not too high
in nitrate they can tolerate a higher
level of nitrate and phosphate and still
do well so my goal here is just to let
these grow you know cover those rocks
add more to it of course
i just want a colorful bed of mushrooms
in here and we'll see what it looks like
so most mushrooms are extremely easy to
keep and very tolerant to low level
lights i'm using a 16 hd here all the
blues are at 40 percent the cool white
is 40 percent no reds or green and my
kessel a80 is set on an extremely blue
setting and about halfway
in light intensity this way gives the
tank a little bit more of a bluer
light which accentuates the colors
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right now i'm at 50 to 75 par
on the mushrooms here and i can tell
they're opening well
and they're looking colorful
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quite low flow with mushrooms if they're
kind of blowing around that's not good
you want as minimal flow
as possible when you're keeping your
mushroom so that's why down at the
bottom away from where a strong flow is
is a good way to go i'm just relying on
the return pump flow as you can see it's
blowing the green star polyp quite well
but to the left where the mushrooms are
it seems to be missing them and i don't
see the mushrooms blowing around at all
discosomer predominantly a filter feeder
i haven't seen mine take any kind of
food some will they'll close up on it
the larger one i see do that when i put
a little food in there it will close up
the others i don't see doing that
so there's the beginning of the
discosoma
discosoma tank
the discosoma tank the discosoma tank
oops
the beginning of the discosomat tank
if you guys been following me you know
the file fish has been in here when i
went to take him out it jumped over and
went into the
overflow return section so when i went
to pull him out of there then he jumped
into the middle
then he jumped into the middle section
so he's been in there for a few days it
was a disaster i'm going to remove him
the next time i take everything apart
find a home for him i'll probably add
two or three reef friendly fish in with
the mushrooms
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