It's not always easy, but there are a couple options. If you can get to the bottom of the foot, often a razor blade to cut it from the rock will work. You have to be patient and secure the mushroom somehow to the next rock (dab of superglue sometimes works, rubberbands are another option). Otherwise, sometimes I'll chip away the rock below the foot of the mushroom and then just glue that piece of rock to the other rock (again, here I'd use superglue gel).

 

Chipping the rock out from underneath is a pretty good idea. Putting the mushroom directly onto the superglue will not work. It will just slime it's way off. I just usually pry the foot off and then put it into a small bowl of crushed coral. After a while it will attach to some of the crushed coral and then I just glue it onto a rock.

Anne

 

Right-to. A razor if you cannot pry the calcium-based rock substrate from under the shroom. Take the bugger and place it in a jar of larger (think 1/2 inch scale) rock rubble. Lightly cover it in the rubble and eventually after a day or two, it will crawl out from under the rock and attach itself. The reason for the jar is to regulate the flow over it while still allowing fresh water to flow in. Place the jar in the back of the tank with light for best results. After trying many different methods (glue, bands, needle/thread), I have found this the easiest of those I have tried. I use a pickle jar for its relatively low profile and wide base. You then can glue the rubble to the intended LR piece without disturbing the attached base of the shroom.

-Ken

 

Thanks!

 

We just did this over the weekend another way. The shroom was on the end of a rock and we took a mason's chisel and hammer and left a little piece of rock on the mushroom. We glued the new piece where we wanted it and stuck the ugly rock back behind everything.

 

Yeah, if you choose the jar/rubble method, don't fool yourself into thinking the mushroom will stay on the small pieces. Mushrooms like to travel and slowly over a few days/weeks, if it wants a more firm base, it will crawl down and attach to a more formed base where it likes it better. Actually the process is slightly amusing. You can then just break the rubble pieces from their temporary fixed location. The reason for the small layer above the mushroom as noted above is to keep him from floating up and out of the jar and into the main water column.

-Ken