Shriveled Ricordia-Coral Health-3reef Forums

CLoob · 06-13-2007, 06:20 AM

I bought a rock with 3 Ricordia on it about 3 weeks ago. I had them placed on the top of my reef close to the lights but they didn't look happy so I placed them on the sandbed last week but they are even more shriveled.
A couple of factors may be causing this;

1. I changed two PC bulbs out last week, 1 50/50 and an Actinic. I still have two more bulbs to change out.
2. there is decent flow where I placed them on the sandbed.

Any help would be much appreciated as I don't want to lose them. My lighting is 144w in a BC29.

MDeth · 06-13-2007, 12:33 PM

The rics will come back no matter how shriveled. Its hard to kill a shroom.

^That being said, I'd put them about mid-way in the tank and leave em

jtReef · 06-13-2007, 12:50 PM

I have found that my ricordia like very little light and very little flow.

CLoob · 06-13-2007, 01:51 PM

Thanks all for the advice. I will move the Rics up halfway tonight and monitor how they are doing.

djnzlab1 · 07-19-2007, 06:03 PM

HI,
I have seen mine react to changes in water quality, even the slightest shift seems to irritate them.
Be sure your water is staying clean and being skimmed well.
I try to feed a phyto plankton twice week for all my inverts they really show some impovement after that.
I usally shut down the returns and the skimmers to allow some contact time maybe an hour I leave the penguins/powerheads running cause they help keep the water moving while not filterng out the micro plankton this improves the contact time.My favorite phot is the freeze dried one I get at that marine depot.
Most canister filters will filter out the food real fast, ditto for skimmers they suck the plankton out in about an hour. If you have a sock or a pad it will too.
IF you have any undesirable nitrates or nitrite or NH3 inverts really suffer.
My hermits usally warn me by not moving around or hidding , if my canisters need cleaning or the skimmer stop skimming cause the veturi's are dirrty.
Is a constant job keeping those things working at their peak.
Doug

Avidreefer · 10-24-2007, 08:33 AM

I have found with my ricordias that they prefer low light and actually moved from where i put them and like a minimal amount of current. I had them about halfway up and in minimal carent and both of them (seperate shrooms) moved to new locations lower down in the tank.

reefboy23 · 10-25-2007, 02:08 AM

Remember....it's a good thing to acclimate new corals and mushrooms,clams etc. to new light....i would'nt purchase a coral and immediately place it at the top of the tank in a full blast of light instead try to dose the light like actinics for a few days then daylight for a while and gradually increase too much immediate light will shock the animal.

amcarrig · 10-26-2007, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MDeth

The rics will come back no matter how shriveled. Its hard to kill a shroom.

^That being said, I'd put them about mid-way in the tank and leave em

Hard to kill a shroom but ricordeas are much easier to kill

Low light, low to medium flow. I keep them on the sandbed of my 180 which has 400 watt MH and they seem to do very well.

geekdafied · 10-30-2007, 10:44 AM

Yumas require high light unlike their cousin ricordea florida which is a low light coral. I dont even wanna count how many yumas melted on me back when I had PCs. I read somewhere that yumas need low light and ricordea floridas needed high light, but they must have gotten that backwards cause I had all kinds of ricordea florida's in that tank. The yumas next to them melted away.