Bounce shroom?

[biologicalme]

I got this mushroom from a random mushroom rock I had in my sump. I thought it looked kinda cool cus it was purple with little white dots. Now its gritting these wart looking bumps on it and they seem to be growing as the mushroom regains its health. What do you guys think?

 

[oredith]

I think the bounce is from the rhodactis family?

your picture looks more like a ricordea

 

[Zoarder]

I think the bounce is from the rhodactis family?

your picture looks more like a ricordea

+1....

 

[BeanMachine]

I think the Bounce is a St. Thomas shroom.

 

[BeanMachine]

That doesn't look like a rhodactis to me. The bubbles and edges don't resemble them. First pic does actually look kinda like a rhodactis but the second doesn't in my opinion.

 

[oredith]

I think the Bounce is a St. Thomas shroom.

St. Thomas shrooms (from the pictures online) seem to have much more uniform bumps.

this hobby is so weird though. people paying big bucks for stuff that I would describe as defective growths..

some of the colors are pretty amazing though.

 

[BeanMachine]

I'm sure they are difference species just generally called St. Thomas shrooms when they are collected from that area.

Although I do agree with you, some have rounded bubbles, some have what I call bull horn bubbles, and some have bubbles and frillies if that's even a word haha

https://www.google.com/search?q=St....CMbsoAS-8YCgBQ&ved=0CBwQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=1099

 

[BeanMachine]

Did that rock come with the other orange red mushrooms? I think many of those are from Indo area.

 

[biologicalme]

Did that rock come with the other orange red mushrooms? I think many of those are from Indo area.

The rock had your typical purple and red mushrooms. I nursed them all to health but this was the only cool looking one. Its not a ricordea. I have lots of those

Take your pic doesn't look like a Yuma or a Florida.

That's an older pic of it. Sorry my phone sucks at taking pictures.

 

[socal619]

I think the bounce is from the jawbreaker family.... I highly doubt it's a bounce, but you never know. Wait til it colors up and post pics.

My bounce for comparison

I have this blue bounce too. Yours looks more like that to me

 

[Fly5150]

Eric your making me jealous with that ric garden.

 

[BeanMachine]

Isnt a jawbreaker a discosoma?

 

[socal619]

Isnt a jawbreaker a discosoma?

yeah lol, was messing around. No one knows for sure what kind of shroom the bounce is. Theres a lot of speculation, but no definite answer. If anyone figured out where they come from or what makes them bubble they'd be a millionaire lol. Bounce's have been out for like 5 years from what i understand, and i've never seen a flood of them come in. I dont know if they are like a freak of nature or what but they are pretty rare. Dnov99 on r2r has the best bounce i've ever seen, check it out http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/corallimorpharians/167882-wwc-bounce-mushroom.html

 

[biologicalme]

Oh yeah it kinda resembles the second pic

 

[biologicalme]

I think the bounce is from the jawbreaker family.... I highly doubt it's a bounce, but you never know. Wait til it colors up and post pics.

My bounce for comparison

I have this blue bounce too. Yours looks more like that to me

Oh yeah it kinda resembles the second pic :O

 

[biologicalme]

Eric your making me jealous with that ric garden.

Haha nah Matt they're kind of a pain to be honest. The yumas will be cool one day and then shrink to nothing the next. Then they sometimes fall off and I have to reattach them to a little rubble piece (which takes about a week because you can't glue them) and then glue the rubble back on the rock.