Ricordea attach time?

[Shade00]

Hey guys, I was attempting to make a yuma combo rock with a couple of baby yumas - specifically two rainbows and an orange. Anyway, superglue didn't hold the little guys (or maybe I didn't let it dry enough), but now I have the little polyps rubber-banded down. What can I expect on attach time? I don't want to leave the bands on too long - the rainbows are only a little bigger than the rubber bands themselves. Thanks guys.

 

[currentking]

dont put the rubber band directly on the ricordea, get some sort of netting and put over it and rubber band the netting over the ricordea. it could take up to 2 weeks, it all depends on the ricordea

 

[aquarius77]

I had an orange and blue florida attach to my front glass in a day. I think current said it best, it depends on the ric. A healthy specimin will attach fast, where as one that is still under new tank shock and shipping stress ect.. will take a bit longer.

 

[Bud's Reef]

I just recently purchased several ricordia and tried to use the net method on three very small oranges. One of them, the largest, attached within a couple of days. The two smallest literally disentegrated under the netting almost as if something was eating them. It was painful to watch but I didn't know what to do to stop it.

A larger blue I used a combination of superglue and a toothpick and it attached within a couple of days also.

The green came on its own rock with one of them attached all alone and another attached the the edge that has at least two others attached only to it. I could probably split them off, but am going to leave them be for now.

 

[aquarius77]

I would use the netting method with shrooms that small. Good chance they may not survive the rubber band if its as big as them. Also i doubt they will attach under those conditions, i would try some type of net over the rock.

 

[Scuba Josh]

I like the glass cup method- Just place a glass cup on the bottome of the tank w/ some small rubble...place ric frag on top...wait a week...and walla, Jerry.

 

[Scuba Josh]

I like the glass cup method- Just place a glass cup on the bottom of the tank w/ some small rubble in it...place ric frag on top of rubble...wait a week...and walla, Jerry.

 

[lessans]

I don't like ricordias attaching to mere rubble, but rather a small flat rock that can fit in the palm of your hand. I have found placing a plastic cup, with the height of the cup being the same as the diameter, on the substrate in a relatively slow moving water zone. Then, place the rock(s) you wish your ricordia(s) to attach to in the cup, and finally placing the ricordia on the rock you wish it attaches. A good rule of thumb that I use is to not touch the mushroom, cup, or rock(s) in the cup for a month. This insures that the mushroom attaches. I don't touch the rock or cup because if I move either and the mushroom isn't attached, then I have to reposition the mushroom because the mushroom usually starts floating around in the slow current.

 

[SAPseven]

lessans i do it your way as well .. works great .