Shroomss Dude

[gobucks1]

Okay, so i have had this driftwood floating in my 55 growout for a while. It was originally in the ocean, but i boiled it and soaked it in a tub for like 3 days.

Now the part that is sticking out has little white mushrooms growing on it. There are a few decent sized ones and a bunch of little ones.

They haven't been there more than a week.

Why are they there?
Has anyone heard of this before?
How can i get rid of them?

I'll get some pics tomorrow, the lights are off now.

Thanks,
Will

 

[cassharper]

nice moist conditions where the mushroom spores wick nutrients through the wood, same as the shrooms growing under trees in people's yard. Take the wood, scrub it, soak it in a mild bleach solution, and do several long soaks in salted water, adding dechlor to neutralize the bleach.

The only question is, how did the spores get there in the first place?

 

[gobucks1]

That's what i was wondering, i mean they don't just pop up out of nowhere.

The wood had been fully underwater before i allowed it to float.

Can some mushroom spores survive under water for like 2 months?

 

[wonword]

That's what i was wondering, i mean they don't just pop up out of nowhere.

The wood had been fully underwater before i allowed it to float.

Can some mushroom spores survive under water for like 2 months?

if mushrooms grow on it, i might be worried that it is a "soft wood" instead of a "hard wood." This of course just means it wont hold up as well or long. Im not sure about mushroom spores, but i know many spores can travel by wind, or last many days in the water.

 

[wonword]

post some pics too, i wonder if they would harm anything?

 

[gobucks1]

I'll get pics up tomorrow after school.
The lights are off now.

I dont know what kind of wood it is, but on land shrooms grow on hardwood too, so what makes you think its a soft wood. You could be right though.

 

[wonword]

I'll get pics up tomorrow after school.
The lights are off now.

I dont know what kind of wood it is, but on land shrooms grow on hardwood too, so what makes you think its a soft wood. You could be right though.

yeah, on land they do both, but usually its on a very very old hardwood rotting a little or its sucking nutrients from the decaying bark. im not sure its soft wood, im just saying that soft wood starts decaying quicker . . . this is a pick of my tank, i had it for awhile and nothing grew on it, but then again spores may not have landed on it.

 

[gobucks1]

Thats mushrooms, Wonword? Those look really cool, maybe i'll leave mine alone.

Mine are kinda starting to look like that, they have extended like crazy since i left for school at around 7 to now at around 4

First 4 pics are from this morning,

Last 2 are from this afternoon.

 

[kydsexy]

one of the main reasons that fungus grow like that is because the wood stays moist from water splashing and the heat from the lamp not evaporating the water from the wood. i had a large piece of wood in my 29 and the 2" or so sticking out were constantly covered in a fungus. try to get the wood all the way under the water