OK.. here is "my" story.
Keeping a teenie tiny reef tank (10G). Been going for about 6 months. I'm a total newbie, cord still attached even.
(So please.. be kind.)
Purchased my first Ric about 3 wks ago. The LR had about 3 on it, xenia and another leather thing on it. I didn't like where 2 of the rics were on the rock, so I used a sharp pair of scissors, and carefully cut them off, sliced the tiny things into two, and put them on a chuck of dead coral skeleton (from a long ago FW tank), and used a piece of media bag and rubber band to hold them on. After about 9 days, took the bag off, and 3 of the 4 pieces were secured. (the other one fell off and got lost in the LR).
They are doing great. Been about 19 days now, and they are coming into their own shape and beginning to look like baby Rics!
Yipee.. My first prop attempt a success. Call the 12 step program! I'm an addict now!
Here are some pics I took below of my experience....
Here is where the 2 rics were on the wierd piece of LR I purchased. They were in a bad spot for me, on the right lower side.
Cut them off.., sliced them & here they are secured with a media bag and rubber bands.
took about 9 - 11 days to secure to base, and this pic was taken a few days thereafter, showing attachment.
This is what they look like today...
(and here is my entire mini setup. the ric frags are on the upper right.... on the white coral base) Some of the green stuff at the bottom, and on the barnacle's skeleton is Maiden's hair algae. (looks bad in this pic.)
OK.. THAT was my own I did. Give or take. The mesh stuff that Bud's Reef had was better. I'll have to save that stuff next time I get some onions or something at the store! The mesh I used worked, but was what I had on hand, and had to make sure not to have air pockets that could collect under that mesh. A wider/finer mesh would have been better.
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