Are yellow ricordia common? Also pic of our green.
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zolovinglover
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No one is going to step up? Alright, I'll carefully tackle this one without seeming to want to bust your bubble.
The yellow rics are actually severely bleached and if taken care of will turn green or orange within 4-6 months or so. If they are not well taken care of they will die. You may notice that the bub bles of the yellows are never as expanded as your greens, for example. Likewise, they never fully blow up. All sings of bleaching and the resulting loss of zooanthellae.
be sure to pay special attention to feeding them to allow them to recover.
The yellow rics are actually severely bleached and if taken care of will turn green or orange within 4-6 months or so. If they are not well taken care of they will die. You may notice that the bub bles of the yellows are never as expanded as your greens, for example. Likewise, they never fully blow up. All sings of bleaching and the resulting loss of zooanthellae.
be sure to pay special attention to feeding them to allow them to recover.
All Delight
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I agree
Sorry.....
Sorry.....
chrisstie
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I've seen some a little more lemon color than that, but after seeing one of my ricordia yuma bleach the color\hue\tint is very similar to those posted...
Good luck in bringing them back they should color up nicely and look a little like the ones above i'd think when they do
Good luck in bringing them back they should color up nicely and look a little like the ones above i'd think when they do
What and How do you feed them, We only feed the fish and put in a little Phyto every 2-3 days. I would not want the ricordea to die and they have been getting smaller the last 6 months. Also they have always been that color would they have changed by now or are they on there last leg.
Thanks
Thanks
chrisstie
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I'd try to shade them and spot feed a little cyclopeez or DT's to them (turn off pumps, squirt itty bitty food at mouths)
- i say shade, assuming they look like they are relatively high up in your tank. Their color may come back stronger then - gettin smaller isn't necessarily a good sign.
I have heard of\seen some that look a little like that naturally but not actually bleached out where there is still a light pigment but smaller is a sign of stress =\
- i say shade, assuming they look like they are relatively high up in your tank. Their color may come back stronger then - gettin smaller isn't necessarily a good sign.
I have heard of\seen some that look a little like that naturally but not actually bleached out where there is still a light pigment but smaller is a sign of stress =\
smp
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There's a lot of misinformation online unfortunately.
I've never seen rics bleach because of too much light, unless you're talking about Yuma's but they are more iffy than florida. Floridas in my experience are easy to care for. They will survive low light but they thrive in high light.
There's also a trend i've noticed, people post pics of bleached ricordia and half of the people are like "oh nice" the other half are like "bleached". I hope you didn't pay premium prices for those "yellow" ricordia, because they are bleached.
I've had rics bleach because they got blown under my rockwork and into the dark. Upon finding them I always take great care of them for as long as i can and i still have them, but they show no signs of recovery more than six months later. I hope your experience is better than mine.
FYI, I keep all my florida rics under 250 watt 20k DE XM under 8" of water and the light is about 12" above the water line. (yes, the tank is only 8" deep, so with the sandbed and 1/2" loss at the top the rics are actually only under about 6" of water)
I've never seen rics bleach because of too much light, unless you're talking about Yuma's but they are more iffy than florida. Floridas in my experience are easy to care for. They will survive low light but they thrive in high light.
There's also a trend i've noticed, people post pics of bleached ricordia and half of the people are like "oh nice" the other half are like "bleached". I hope you didn't pay premium prices for those "yellow" ricordia, because they are bleached.
I've had rics bleach because they got blown under my rockwork and into the dark. Upon finding them I always take great care of them for as long as i can and i still have them, but they show no signs of recovery more than six months later. I hope your experience is better than mine.
FYI, I keep all my florida rics under 250 watt 20k DE XM under 8" of water and the light is about 12" above the water line. (yes, the tank is only 8" deep, so with the sandbed and 1/2" loss at the top the rics are actually only under about 6" of water)
chrisstie
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Well, as I said I am only making an assumption they are in too much light- we need the OP to show us maybe a full tank shot or let us know whats going on more with water quality\location\etc
I was just taking a hint from the blinding light coming off the top of the rics that washed the photo out...
SPS and LPS can bleach out from too much light, why not shrooms? Happens to yumas, in certain cases it happens to rics - but is not the sole cause as there can be many things to cause this. I guess that should be a disclaimer.
I was just taking a hint from the blinding light coming off the top of the rics that washed the photo out...
SPS and LPS can bleach out from too much light, why not shrooms? Happens to yumas, in certain cases it happens to rics - but is not the sole cause as there can be many things to cause this. I guess that should be a disclaimer.
All Delight
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SMP - I really like the blue/teal/dark green/pink flordia.
Chaotic Reefer4u
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Awesome Ric's...
smp
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Thank you.
I have my girlfriend to thank for those. I would have overlooked them at the LFS because at first glance they looked like plain old greeny/blue .. but upon closer inspection (at her insistence) I noticed the teal and pink and scooped them up. They have since appreciated in numbers and I am very happy with them.
I think the best colours come out under 20k halides and I'm not ashamed to admit that those pictures were taken under 20k. That's what they look like in person, just less fuzzy (old cam)
But yeah, I didn't mean to derail the thread, sorry to the OP.
I have my girlfriend to thank for those. I would have overlooked them at the LFS because at first glance they looked like plain old greeny/blue .. but upon closer inspection (at her insistence) I noticed the teal and pink and scooped them up. They have since appreciated in numbers and I am very happy with them.
I think the best colours come out under 20k halides and I'm not ashamed to admit that those pictures were taken under 20k. That's what they look like in person, just less fuzzy
(old cam)But yeah, I didn't mean to derail the thread, sorry to the OP.
lokelani808
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thats a steal over here they go for 20 bucks a pop!
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