Intentionally shading mushrooms

ptreef

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I have some orange mushrooms (ricordia?) that seem to be spreading and stinging a hammer colony. Would there be any negative consequences to just placing a rock over them to essentially kill them?
 
Shading them won’t work. They will literally split or move to get back into the light (at least, in my experience, rhodactis and Discosoma will do this). I don’t believe rhodactis actually “stings,” but I think they are actually using some type of chemical warfare. I had a problem with rhodactis doing this to a large toadstool. Unfortunately I think the only solution would be trying to find a way to move one of the corals... the hammer may be easier, but eventually the mushrooms will grow into the next coral...
 
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