ricordea farmers /wholesalers
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spanishmack
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me too and i am actively working on it. whether i succeed or not, we will wait and see.
the only problem for me so far has been a nice pink half melting but it has now moved to high flow and shade. by half melting the bottom half turned into pus, the top was still together. it looks like it has split into 2 now, so fingers crossed one of them pulls through. last time a pinky melted i moved it to low light high flow and got 2, way slower than normal propagation times but it is still 2, and a healthy 2 at that.
the acclimation part is the hardest, get them through that and you are sweet. not that i hav seen any yumas in the wild, but the nicer colours seem to melt on acclimation, whether it is too much light or they are just a finicky creature remains to be decided. most of the nicer rics are in small colonys indicating slow reproduction and maybe no resilience. i hear that brown yumas grow well in the wild and form large coloies out the open and thrive, similar to what i ahve experienced in my tank. 2 inch browns throwing 1 natural baby a month......
yumas do grow slow for sure, a baby(not brown/green) will take 18-24 months to grow to 2 inches. but if you are cutting one up every week in 2 years time you will have one 2 inch ric every week.
the biggest hurdle i can see for you folks in the US is the 40 hour transit from reef to aquarium. it can be done for tank hardened stock but fresh collected is another variable added to the mix
Reefer08
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spanishmack, your absolutely right about them being difficult to acclimate and growth rates. I fragged one hot pink yuma onto a small piece of live rock and used wedding vail to wrap it. It must have taken 2-3 months for it to attach and grow a mouth. Ive had it for nearly 7 months now and its barely the size of an eraser head, barely any growth.
But now it is super resilient and hardy. It survived and is thriving in my new tank that I just set up. One thing is for sure, after being fragged this yuma is super hardy. Its too bad companies like ORA don't focus on aquaculturing things like yumas and high end zoas/palys.
But now it is super resilient and hardy. It survived and is thriving in my new tank that I just set up. One thing is for sure, after being fragged this yuma is super hardy. Its too bad companies like ORA don't focus on aquaculturing things like yumas and high end zoas/palys.
I dabbel in this a little and the secret to mushroom growth is med flow tank , under skim the water in my 65 i have a prizim skilter just to keep the water clear (only for mt benifit),and dont run carbon daily unles you have just fragged some stuff. and the bes way to ragg is with is with a cooking sifter screen or equivelent 1\4 1\4" holes eggcrate works to a large sized mushroom is placed on rock and the screen is placed over top with slight pressure more added weekly.low light bot of tank and patience started this a year or two ago now i have ricorida out the wazoo more then enough to make a slight profit on my tank (that frag tank only not the whole reef) also with yumas you just have to buy a large rock and spend on it i paid like 200$ for my rock and scraped babis of the bott for months and let them float to where ever they want i have rubble all over the tank and large live rock no sand just c.c the method for yumas is differnt. i have the rock bot of tank mod light and rotate sixty degres every othr day and every full rotation i scrap babies of and let them float (same filter setup as the ric tank) I dose argomite in both tanks as well oddly enough i ha\ve foud that they all seem to end up in the same area just put a large rok there and wolia. good luck yall
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Blazer88
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I have been selling naturally spawned red/pink Yuma's on here for years now. Now maybe is isn't considered an aquaculture operation but I've probably sold ~10 over the past few years. All of the ones that I've sold have been reported to be doing very well and even spawning new babies of their own. So maybe it is just a matter of time before more red/pink yuma's like mine grow on a larger scale and become more widely available.
