Do ricordea florida reproduce fast or slow?

[kmu]

Hi there, Ive had my shrooms reproduce I get at least a new one every month and Ive got 3 diferent type of shrooms, now I have around 14 diferent ricordea florida, would they ever reproduce?

 

[macclellan]

yes.

 

[kmu]

Do I have to feed them to make them grow and reproduce and if so with what should I feed them?

THX

 

[macclellan]

light.

 

[smoney]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15464682#post15464682 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by macclellan
light.

Haha, Macclellan, your short answers are so helpful, haha.


They grow relatively slow at first, but once your system gets stable they can take off. If you want to feed them every once in a while you can. I find that after I feed them a day or two after, they seem to thrive and extend and look bigger. I feed mine some fish pellets that I feed my clowns, I like using fish pellets because the size of the fish pellet I get are small enough to fit in the ricordeas mouth and its weighted down enough to where it stays sunk onto the ricordea.


I also feed them brine shrimp and mysis shrimp too, but since they aren't heavier, sometimes they just float off the ricordea which is kind of fustrating.

 

[Azurel]

It depends on the ric itself....I have some that grow and split once 2x month while others have done nothing. I have tried to feed Florida ricordea and in my case they do not take food, they will not wrap around it and just let it fall off them. So I quit trying toget them to eat.....The best thing to do is get the stabile parameters, temps etc....And leave them alone...

 

[Jeff]

Good quality food like Rod's Food, moderate flow and lots of light have helped mine out. I also take the good ones out and cut them up into 4 pieces like a pizza every few months to get some new ones if they are splitting slowly.

Inspiration (all mine):

 

[smoney]

Those are nice Jeff, what kind of rod's food do you use the original or the coral blend?


And how does Rod's food look like, do you spot feed your rics or is it like marine snow and it just disperses everywhere in the tank?

 

[Jeff]

I mix Rod's original, Rod's coral food, some frozen mysis, cyclopseeze, selcon, coral frenzy and some reef roids into a slurry and squirt it all of the corals twice a week with the pumps off for a few minutes. Like any coral, the less colorful ones grow and split faster then the rare colors .

 

[Tallinu]

All my floridas feed, mysis, fish food, rods, I like rods reef as a product. Good stuff. I can cut krill into small steaks and they eat it. Silversides the same way. My Floridas eat anything and I can feed them almost every day. I have so many floridas I don't even count them. I love both types of Rics. One thing I've noticed is rics can go through fazes. Don't worry about reproduction it will happen with Floridas quickly if your doing everything else right. If you play your cards right and feed them now and then, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight. You get the idea.

 

[drawman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15467093#post15467093 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jeff
Good quality food like Rod's Food, moderate flow and lots of light have helped mine out. I also take the good ones out and cut them up into 4 pieces like a pizza every few months to get some new ones if they are splitting slowly.

What do you use to cut them up. I would think a scalpel would be nice but razor blades may cause too much damage.

 

[Jeff]

I use a fresh razor blade. Nothing fancy, it's hard to kill rics. Some of the pics above show how I placed them in some crushed gravel for a couple weeks until they attached. I then glued the crushed coral that they were on to frag plugs and let them grow out.

 

[SECRETREEF]

I believe feeding florida rics helps them to multiply because eversince I stoped feeding them they stopped dividing. So I will start feeding again.... NOW!!

 

[16dollars]

I went from one orange ric with one mouth to one wiht 5 mouths. then i fragged it with 100% success rate. two of the pieces have 2 mouths and the third piece has one mouth. all of this happened within 3-4 months. by the end of the year i am expecting to have 9 or so. just take your time. take care of your tank and it will take care of you.

 

[jdhuyvetter]

Mine divide on their own. I'm not pushing the aquaculture on them. Just want them to fill in one section of my tank (almost there). So far, I don't target feed them. But, they are in a section of the tank where flake and pellet fish food will settle on them. So far, they seem to like it.

 

[VeganInFurs]

Ive had my ricordea almost 2 weeks now and ive been feeding it brine shrimp every time i feed my fish which is twice a day.... as well as planton food every so often and so far 4 baby shrooms have started growing around it. I just spray a little of the frozenbrine shrimp onto it with a dropper and it starts feeding within seconds... pretty awesome!

 

[Rudolph]

All my floridas feed, mysis, fish food, rods, I like rods reef as a product. Good stuff. I can cut krill into small steaks and they eat it. Silversides the same way. My Floridas eat anything and I can feed them almost every day. I have so many floridas I don't even count them. I love both types of Rics. One thing I've noticed is rics can go through fazes. Don't worry about reproduction it will happen with Floridas quickly if your doing everything else right. If you play your cards right and feed them now and then, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight. You get the idea.

Okay, after a statement like "I have so many floridas I don't even count them" you cannot leave us hanging....bring on the pics!

 

[Rudolph]

Mine divide on their own. I'm not pushing the aquaculture on them. Just want them to fill in one section of my tank (almost there). So far, I don't target feed them. But, they are in a section of the tank where flake and pellet fish food will settle on them. So far, they seem to like it.

Again, with a quote like, almost filled section of the tank, you gotta post pics....I think it was in the fine print when you joined..:lolspin:

 

[jdhuyvetter]

As of 5 minutes ago

 

[Rudolph]

nice pics, those rics look very happy. jd...thx.

What size tank do you have and what type lighting.....