jdhuyvetter
SWFMAS Event Coordinator
300 gallons, all T-5's
Do ricordea florida reproduce fast or slow?
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reefsahoy
I can see thru you!
Make sure you wear some eye protection when cutting any corals, if liquid gets into your eyes it can be serious. Make sure you wash hands with soap after as you may wipe your eyes or ingest the poison too. JMHO!
londonloco
New member
Few years back I had green stripe mushrooms take over my tank. I took one smaller piece of LR out of the tank and was cutting the schrooms off the rock. One larger sucka squirted me directly in the eye. No biggie, right? many times I'd gotten salt water in my eyes. The pain got progressively worse thru the day, I ended up in the ER that night. I of course had to endure all the "schroom jokes" from all personnel in the ER. I even had a parade of student doctors in my ER bay too see the "schroom lady". Two more trips to the eye doctor until all the "microscopic sticky cannon balls" were scraped off of my eye ball. My eye doctor didn't think it was sand, he said the tiny particles in my eye were sticky foreign matter he had never seen before (this dr is not young either) and were embedded like cannons in my eyeball. My eye is fine today, but I would never remove a mushroom again with out wearing protective eye gear.
reefsahoy
I can see thru you!
there's little knowledge of the damage that ocean animals can do to us and other bacteria out of the water, this is why you always hear the pharmaceuticals companies say the ocean has many secrets to be unlocked for future medicines. with the chemicals these animals secrete future medicines will be discovered and accidents like yours can be damaging to the individual because there are unknown antidotes for these chemicals. The damage might not be done the instant it happened, the damage can accumilate over a long period of time. So fragging any corals should be taken with extreme care and protection. I dont think alot of reefers take this seriously enough. Lets keep the hobby fun and frag safely. JMHO. sorry for the hijack of the thread but lets get back to the fragging of rics!
Radioheadx14
Active member
My experience:
Had them in a clean, sps tank, very slow at reproducing.
Changed to a dirtier tank w/ few water changes ( I was gone for 6mo and my bro was just maintaining) and they split several times
Orange were pretty fast. Blue split the most
1 Green/orange mixed never split in 2 years the other slightly different teal and orange split once in 2 years
Had them in a clean, sps tank, very slow at reproducing.
Changed to a dirtier tank w/ few water changes ( I was gone for 6mo and my bro was just maintaining) and they split several times
Orange were pretty fast. Blue split the most
1 Green/orange mixed never split in 2 years the other slightly different teal and orange split once in 2 years
