Bounce mushrooms after 6 years

[eksblenny]

Hey guys, anyone else have big WWC bounces that haven’t been cut long term? I got a few comments recently on my little mini colony and thought I would share a pic. I bought a tiny bounce frag with a single bubble about 6 years ago and since then it has naturally split into a grand total of 3 mushrooms. Each mushroom is big though… in zero flow they can stretch to 6+ inches each. They have had plenty of close calls… a few tank crashes, wandering anemones, nibbling fish and crabs, and even living in a brute trash with indirect sunlight for nearly a month, but they are still alive!

Quarter in each pic for scale:

 

[Newjack]

very nice. In another thread we were just discussing how mushrooms can get really big under very low flow and low light conditions.

 

[popper]

Wow. Impressive.

 

[Darkxerox]

@under_water_ninja 's is huge. Don't have a recent photo (this is over a year ago) but the thing just keeps getting bigger.

Just tell his clowns to stop living in it!

 

[BlueSallymandr]

Whoa, bouncy! Can I ask what you used to take these photos (like was it a phone or a fancy camera)? Nice corals and nice photos.

 

[eksblenny]

Hey I use a Canon 5D MK2 I bought way back in 2009 with a nifty fifty lens. Maybe current gen smartphones have better cameras?

 

[Darkxerox]

Kenny's is 3 now probably from these clowns living in it lol

 

[Invictus]

Looking fantastic. Do you expect it will split down onto the bare bottom of the tank? Or would it make sense to add an XL frag disk below the rock they’re on?

 

[eksblenny]

Looking fantastic. Do you expect it will split down onto the bare bottom of the tank? Or would it make sense to add an XL frag disk below the rock they’re on?

Thanks! Over the years I have put discs under discs. First 1/2”, then 3”, then 4”, and finally a bunch of live rock rubble that I glued together to form a flat plate underneath. Their feet are still on the 4” disc so I think I have a while before I need to expand again. I’ve heard that the OG bounce doesn’t get much more than 6”+ so we’ll see.

 

[Turkeysammich]

Pretty cool.