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Unread 01/09/2011, 08:59 AM   #1
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St Thomas Mushrooms

I picked up a couple of the St Thomas Mushrooms a few weeks ago. From what I learned they do like meaty foods and so far I know they eat cyclopseze as they consume them by curling up as they catch them.

They are a different and colorful coralmorph, but I haven't seen many in reef tanks.

If you have any St Thomas Mushrooms please share your experiance and post pictures as they appear to be availabe in many color combinations.

Or, if you don't have any but want to find out more please ask.

thanks

here is the red/yellow one under atctinics taken with my vid camera with the white ballance adjusted - so the color is not 100% true. I'll try to post other pioctures when I get home next weekend. A portion of the blue one shows in the bottom right of the picture.




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Unread 01/09/2011, 12:44 PM   #2
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I envy you to be able to buy those beauties - they rarely make it over to Europe, and if they do, they are quite expensive. As far as mushrooms go, anyway. Haven't seen really colorful ones for sale yet, either...

So, how's the rate of propagation? Do they split and bud the same way other shrooms do? Are there actual colonies?


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Unread 01/09/2011, 01:11 PM   #3
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I envy you to be able to buy those beauties - they rarely make it over to Europe, and if they do, they are quite expensive. As far as mushrooms go, anyway. Haven't seen really colorful ones for sale yet, either...

So, how's the rate of propagation? Do they split and bud the same way other shrooms do? Are there actual colonies?
thanks Sebastian J

I don't know much about them yet but have to assume they propagate like a mushroom or ricodia.

These two came in with a lttle damage on the base from being cut off a rock but healed up nice so maybe now they will start to bud, split or whatever. I'll keep looking and post something when they do


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Unread 01/09/2011, 02:33 PM   #4
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that is one nice bubble shroom been looking for one like it since the power outage last
year killed my 2 red ones....as far as propagation goes, the blue ones i have will occasionally move a little bit and when i see part of the foot stretching out under it, i take a razor blade and cut it and it makes a baby shroom, im not sure how they do cutting them in half as i havent tried that yet.


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wow thats a nice one. I had seen one for sale once but wasnt sure what their requirements were or if they were hardy like other mushrooms.


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Unread 01/10/2011, 09:39 AM   #6
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Amazing St Thomas!

The ones I have seem very hardy, and accept large meaty foods well. Seem to like lower light and flow.

We're getting a big order of them in at the LFS I work at, can't wait to "unwrap" them all!


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Unread 01/10/2011, 10:04 AM   #7
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Amazing St Thomas!

The ones I have seem very hardy, and accept large meaty foods well. Seem to like lower light and flow.

We're getting a big order of them in at the LFS I work at, can't wait to "unwrap" them all!
Funny - my most successful ones have done better in higher flow. The ones I put in lower light lost color and starved - BUT I don't feed them. They get the same detritus as the rest of the Rics and shrooms.


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Those are very cool.


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Unread 01/17/2011, 01:43 PM   #9
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I have these at mid height in the tank, under AI Sol's running at 60% intensity. I don't feed them directly, but I do heavily over-feed the tank with Rod's Food, PE Mysis, Oyster Feast, Reef Snow, Microvere, and soaked pellets. I will see the St. Thomas curl-up around food.


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Unread 01/17/2011, 01:54 PM   #10
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Beautiful! Where is everyone getting these from?


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Unread 01/17/2011, 02:00 PM   #11
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Shout out to coralmorphologic.com for all of mine.


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Unread 01/17/2011, 02:28 PM   #12
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Player - very nice collection. They come from the Keys, so ask your LFS that carries FL Riccordea if they can get some. Colin gets some beauties at morphologic, but they are pricey compared to what a diver charges.


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Unread 01/22/2011, 09:45 PM   #13
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Look at ccritters.com for St. Thomas mushrooms


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Unread 01/24/2011, 10:54 AM   #14
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Look at ccritters.com for St. Thomas mushrooms
that's exactly where I got the one posted at the begining of this thread. They have a decent selection with good prices and service on ricordia and st thomas mushrooms, as well as clean up crew critters


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Unread 01/29/2011, 02:44 AM   #15
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Those look really nice How hard are these to keep? Would it be good as a first coral to a tank? I would definitely be feeding them...and as for my lighting, my tank is a 20H with a 4 bulb HO t5 fixture for a total of 72 watts. How would this do?


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hey any luck with st thomas shroom fragging?


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Unread 11/26/2011, 07:48 PM   #17
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Personally, not much luck with any that are cut deliberately or torn accidentaly.

Since this thread was revived after ten months, I just wanted to ammend what I said about Morphologic - my previous post now seems out of line to me. They collect the best select St Thomas's in the business. At the time of the post, I knew a licenced collector that would send me lots, cheap. The extra effort Morpholic puts in to find exceptional specimens and ensure their health justifies the expense.


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Unread 11/28/2011, 04:37 PM   #18
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I collect those they are sweet. I don't target feed but I do dose the roti rich for the Ricordia. And they eat it readily.


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Unread 12/01/2011, 03:28 PM   #19
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+1 on coralmorphologic.com. I received two from them a couple weeks ago and they're very healthy. They've quickly become my favorite corals.


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Unread 12/02/2011, 02:58 PM   #20
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I received some more common yet beautiful ones on a piece of LR I bought from someone, there are now 5 or 6 about 3 inches in diameter. They propagate slowly, which makes them an awesome non invasive mushroom species. I have no pictures but will post soon. They are under a 20k PAR38 at the moment and showed now stress from switching from T5s to right underneath a PAR38 about 18 inches underneath it (that is much much more light than my 4 bulb T5 was giving them, just to clarify that). They eat periodically, and grow slowly yet surely. I would expect that they could eat small sleeping fishes like the elephant ear mushroom can, so occasional feeding would probably be more beneficial than most think.

coralmorphologic.com is a fantastic site for everything shrooms, that is, if your LFS doesn't carry many nice shrooms.


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Unread 12/06/2011, 10:34 PM   #21
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my red/blue st thomas started to split today or least it looks like there is a split from the edge to the mouth under the mucus line in this pictuer - more to come



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Yes I love these mushroms !!

I've three sorts (One green and two blue) from Coral fanatics.




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Unread 11/09/2012, 10:24 PM   #23
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very nice, that blue looks quite similar to a bubble tip


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these are beutiful mushrooms!


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Unread 11/20/2012, 01:36 PM   #25
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I have a teal and white St. Thomas ricordea and it completely owns. An acquaintance of mine has an entire 75g tank full of them, and he's the one who originally gave one to me.


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