ricordea attachment

[jimnrose]

I'm having a problem with getting my Florida ricordea to 'stay put' and attach to rubble. I purchased a bunch and am trying to keep then seperate but they keep grouping together. Is this normal???? I added additinalrockfragments hoping to get them to attech but they keep moving around. I have them in a very low flow area, so don't think it's caused by water movement.
I read somewhere to tie them to a piece of rock for a week or so (until they attach) Is that the only option?????
I'm planning to add quite a few rics and got to get my act together.
Jim

 

[israel.kendall]

I took a Tupperware container and covered the bottom with a layer of sand, then a layer of rubble on top of that, put the ric in and rubber banded netting to the top of the container. One ric didn't seem to want to attach to any of the rubble, so I took it out and looked underneath and found it was attached to various tiny pieces of sand and rubble. Took it out and glued it to larger rubble.

It does seem to me that they love to be all bunched together.

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[sfexplicit]

I've stuck a toothpick through one and superglued the toothpick to a small piece of live rock. Eventually the ric attached to the rock and I cut off/out the toothpick. Some of them are just stubborn.

 

[jimnrose]

Thanks for the inputs. I'll first try the netting approach. It should be obvious locating netting but I'm still scratching my head. I guess fiberglass window screen but could get away with less mesh. I'll use small plastic containers so I can keep the rics seperate. Right now I have 6 newbies but plan on another 12 in a few weeks. Jim

 

[israel.kendall]

For netting I buy a brand new one of those shower poof ball things that you use with bodywash. Sorry I don't know the technical term for them, but just cut it and it will stretch nicely and elastic like.

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[jimnrose]

Sounds like a hair net & it fits the bill: open mesh, thin material & light color.
I also found I already have a souse of small plasticcontainers. Cut the bottom sectin off 16 oz water bottles. I'm in busines.
Thanks, Jim

 

[ntropics]

coralmorphologic.com has great step by step instructions to do this.

http://coralmorphologic.com/xcart/pages.php?pageid=10

Bruce

 

[jimnrose]

Bruce, great link. I think I now know what to do. Thanks, Jim