Help with Ricordea Yuma!

[leviburns89]

And after reviewing your pics... did you glue the mushroom directly to a rock? If so, I have had zero luck with that method, they all seem to reject the glue, and expel the glued part away, and float away.

The recommended method would be to use cheap wedding veil or other poly mesh to wrap around the mushroom, holding it to a peice of rock or rubble until the foot can naturally grow onto the rock, then remove the veil. This also makes moving the coral much easier and less stressful.

This stuff can be bought at Michaels for dirt cheap, or online for even cheaper.

Either way, if all is lost, it's just a mushroom, and not that expensive to replace is the worst is in order. Some people make small mistakes and end up losing hundreds of dollars in single coral peices. So rest assured knowing that if you mess up, it's not the end of the world

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[ricosneeks]

And after reviewing your pics... did you glue the mushroom directly to a rock? If so, I have had zero luck with that method, they all seem to reject the glue, and expel the glued part away, and float away.

The recommended method would be to use cheap wedding veil or other poly mesh to wrap around the mushroom, holding it to a peice of rock or rubble until the foot can naturally grow onto the rock, then remove the veil. This also makes moving the coral much easier and less stressful.

This stuff can be bought at Michaels for dirt cheap, or online for even cheaper.

Either way, if all is lost, it's just a mushroom, and not that expensive to replace is the worst is in order. Some people make small mistakes and end up losing hundreds of dollars in single coral peices. So rest assured knowing that if you mess up, it's not the end of the world

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Hmm when i went in to the store the mushroom was actually on a small peice of rubble.. the lady in the store then glued him to a peice of rock.. any way i can get him off

 

[leviburns89]

All of my mushrooms are on small peices of rubble as well. I then glued the rubble to a rock if the rubble wasn't heavy enough to keep it in place.

The ricordea I have that split was lucky enough to have a bunch of sand fixed to the foot that I could glue it to a peice of rubble.

A lot of people just set the loose mushroom in a small tank with a bunch of rubble and the shroom will eventually grow onto a peice.

Removing the shroom itself and then gluing is not a great idea. It should be able to naturally fix itself to a rock over time. Thus the wedding veil, holds it in a specific spot until it can do that.

Glue on the foot just makes the mushroom reject that portion of flesh.

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[jzch82]

I love them, they are beautiful. However I bought 2 of them and they were splitting and look great. Then all of a sudden they started with rain and melted into a pool of goo. My girlfriend's telling me it's because I put too much light on them. Maybe she should start doing all the testing in the water changes since she's the expert, LOL she's probably right

 

[leviburns89]

I love them, they are beautiful. However I bought 2 of them and they were splitting and look great. Then all of a sudden they started with rain and melted into a pool of goo. My girlfriend's telling me it's because I put too much light on them. Maybe she should start doing all the testing in the water changes since she's the expert, LOL she's probably right

Honestly, it's probably too much light. Mushrooms can survive in some pretty dirty water. But you should still be doing weekly water changes. I know it gets to be a pain in the butt, but it really pays off

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