Help ric care

[Prince916]

I am planning on kepping some rics in my tank. What do rics need; flow, lighting, substrate, and feeding wise.

Ive kept mushrooms successfully before(plague porportion wise) but are rics care and needs different from mushrooms?

My tank is a 90g with 8x54w t5 ho on the blue side with lots of flow for my sps(2-mp40w, 1 k4, and 500gph return), and my params are 0.

 

[ek9vboi]

Your tank seems fine for rics. They are very easy to care for and are like other mushrooms. Don't require a lot of anything when I had them.

 

[SoLiD]

I have about 70 to 80 Orange Florida Ricordea in my 40 gallon. They are pretty easy. Light to moderate flow. Medium-high to medium-low light.

 

[Candycrab]

Ric floridias like a little stronger light than other mushrooms and a low flow. They are pretty hardy. They don't need to be fed but you can spot feed them a variety of foods. Frozen shrimp pieces, LPS pellets, krill, etc. If they accept food you know they're doing good. They can be grown on sand, LR, or CC. They can be a little difficult to attach to LR though, but there are many techniques out in the web that you can find. Yumas are a little bit more sensitive in my opinion.

 

[Prince916]

Do they grow like mushrooms? In my old set-up i had a big problems with mushrooms. They wouldnt stop growing and couldnt get rid of em.

 

[Rudolph]

If your rics grow like other mushrooms you will be a rich man, but unfortunately no, they do not reproduce anywhere near like other mushrooms.....

 

[Dukester]

Do they grow like mushrooms? In my old set-up i had a big problems with mushrooms. They wouldnt stop growing and couldnt get rid of em.

yes they do grow exactly like other mushrooms. it started with 1 ricordia yuma only a few years ago and now look how many there are. this is a new tank but the old one they were covering the back glass. lol over 300+ rics now the have spread to every piece of LR in my tank. im starting to consider them a pest.

 

[Rudolph]

well, I would take a wild growing yuma too (Dukester PM me as I will buy a big bag of those weeds from you ), but get a florida ric to do that and you have found the golden egg...lol

 

[CLINTOS]

Duke, try a more colorful one, some large type's of yuma's can act like hairy mushroom's, but not all. Maybe you just have the perfect environment for them, or they are hairy shroom's that look a lot like yuma's.

They kind of seem to have long not rounded tentacle's for the outer disc portion, of a normal looking yuma, but it is tough to say with out a slightly better pic.

A lot of yuma's imo that have long tentacle's on the outer disc, also have large rounded tentacles on the outside disc, when compared to the smaller tentacle's between the mouth and outer edge of the shroom's rim.

80% sure they are hairy mushroom's.

Larger rounded tentacle's around the mouth, then larger rounded tentacles around the outside rim of the shroom, is a clear indicator of a yuma, the rest will be smaller rounded tentacles then around the outside rim and around the mouth.

You have a hairy shroom imo because of the larg tentacle's between the outside mouth and outside rim.

plus the speed that they are multiplying is a clear indicator, JMO

 

[CLINTOS]

There are a few exception's of yuma's that have long outside rim tentacles, but they usually have rounded large tentacles mixed in too, along the outside rim.

 

[Dukester]

Duke, try a more colorful one, some large type's of yuma's can act like hairy mushroom's, but not all. Maybe you just have the perfect environment for them, or they are hairy shroom's that look a lot like yuma's.

They kind of seem to have long not rounded tentacle's for the outer disc portion, of a normal looking yuma, but it is tough to say with out a slightly better pic.

A lot of yuma's imo that have long tentacle's on the outer disc, also have large rounded tentacles on the outside disc, when compared to the smaller tentacle's between the mouth and outer edge of the shroom's rim.

80% sure they are hairy mushroom's.

Larger rounded tentacle's around the mouth, then larger rounded tentacles around the outside rim of the shroom, is a clear indicator of a yuma, the rest will be smaller rounded tentacles then around the outside rim and around the mouth.

You have a hairy shroom imo because of the larg tentacle's between the outside mouth and outside rim.

plus the speed that they are multiplying is a clear indicator, JMO

100% sure you are wrong. these are Ricordia Yuma. lol

 

[Davy854]

whatever type of shroom they are its nice ti see them multiply like that mate

 

[CLINTOS]

Dukester

Yuma's are loving your tank then.