Fragging yumas and or rics

[Lonelyreef]

Has anyone here ever fragged a ric or Yuma. I have two very nice yumas a rainbow and an emerald green I'd love to propagate and give out to my local reefers but I don't want to kill the shrooms.

 

[Lonelyreef]

Anyone out there that can help me out.

 

[deadlycombo82]

I know I was looking in to doing this a bit ago and looked it up, I know I found a video of it on you tube. I've never tried it but I'm sure I saw a video on it

 

[rich850]

Ummm are you trying to cut one into 2 or are you asking how to cut one off a rock because you have grown several out?

 

[skene]

It's relatively simple as long as you make a clean cut through the center of the mouth.

 

[Daniel62]

with the florida ones its best to wait until it has 2 mouths. For yumas, wait till they are about 2 inches across and cut down the middle. keep the yumas in low light.

Good luck

 

[madadi]

I cut my yumas and rics in as many as 12 sections with good results. use clean, sharp blades. I used surgical scalpels. if the mouth is cut trough they will recover much faster. otherwise expect a longer healing time. keep them out of the light and make a container for them so you don't lose them in the high flow and this will also give them a chance to attach to some rock rubble.

 

[Lonelyreef]

Lots of great info thanks.

 

[MDO]

Yep. Simple cut through mouth. I did it it once and cut and made 4 pieces which formed 4 new yumas.

 

[Almondsaz]

You can certainly frag a ricordea or yuma but I prefer to let the split(ricordea) or move a drop new ones(yuma). Once they settle in they will start growing offspring.

 

[Borchers]

I have heard of using a Rubber Band and forcing it to split on its own. Don't make it to tight but just enough to make it uncomfortable. That way no cuts are made.

 

[fragbox]

I wouldn't do it again
it works , its easy but it doesn't work out the way you think it does
lets say you have a 2'' yuma and you cut it and half you think you will get 2 x 2'' yumas over time but you dont. IME it stunts them and they will never be the same size again. After about a month of healing you will end up with 2 dwarf yumas. I would just enjoy them they way they are and dont bother

 

[jlafou1]

I always cut through the middle, then used a stick on shower type holder to block the high flow and used rock rubble with rubber bands to latch on.

 

[datboyhieu]

i heard u just take a exacto or a scapel and cut it right down the middle of the mouth

 

[GeoJ]

You can certainly frag a ricordea or yuma but I prefer to let the split(ricordea) or move a drop new ones(yuma). Once they settle in they will start growing offspring.

I am with you man... pile some rocks around them and when they get to 2-3 inches, add some flow to get them to move out of the currant, and the Yuma will drop pups as it move all over the rocks.

 

[moondoggy4]

I use high light on my yuma for about 2 to 4 hours depends on how they respond they move away from the light and leave a foot and I get a new baby.

 

[madadi]

yumas and high light don't mix in my experience.

 

[moondoggy4]

Yes the high light was just playing around with my Kessil 150 on my 120 tank, my main light is a Tek Elite 6 x 54, so the Kessil was just playing but after 3 or 4 hours I noticed that the yuma did not like it and moved leaving a foot and now a new yuma, my yumas do best at the half point in the tank and grows slow on the sand bed.

 

[PeTe PoLyP]

I didn't like a Yuma.that was about 3 1/2" across, so I scraped it off the rock with a sharp knife. I thought I had gotten it, but it left several tiny bits if the foot on the rock. Now I have 8 of them. The ones that I wanted to split, I took a sharp knife, made a vertical and horizontal cut through the mouth. Within a week the cuts I made had grown back together. In about another week I noticed 4 little ric directly under the one I had cut. Another week went by and the ric I cut detached from the rock. It found a new rock to reattach to. This is what it left behind

I have since removed 2 ric from this peice of rubble and the same thing happened like the other I tried to scrape off. They left 2 tiny ric behind. As far as "dwarfing" the ric I have not experienced. The mother ric measures 5" across still.

It has worked its way up the rock and has dropped 3 babies on the way. You can see 2 of them in the picture, the third is still underneath.