Ricordea Mushrooms? Cost/care

RobsReefs

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my lfs just got a lot of Ricordea mushrooms in, and i just seen this type of sroom for the first time and wanted to know if any one has info on them/ and if there are as expenceve as i am being told.
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They are ricordia. Looks like Ricordia Florida. It is fairly easy to keep. Give Medium Flow, Medium Light, and the usual good water parameters.

The orange and blue ones usually go for 45-75 a polyp here.
 
Ricordea floridas are easy to care for. In most cases all you need is medium to high intensity light and medium flow and they should get enough food. If you want them to grow/split faster you can spot feed them plankton or meaty foods like mysis shrimp.

The prices can vary greatly, depending on the rarity of the color morph, and they are often priced by the number of mouths they have.

If I were you I'd start with one of the cheaper, hardier, and more common color morphs such as the flourescent green ones. Its not rare to find them less than $10 a mouth.

I had great luck at this website:

www.sealifeflorida.com

They have great prices, good customer service, and I got a lot more than I paid for (bought 4 single polyp rics -- got 6 polyps, 2 of which were almost finished splitting, and another with 3 mouths)
 
I bought a green Florida ricordia for my first coral. My tank really was not ready but I was impatient.

Never had a problem yet and it is growing rapidly.
 
Yeah, they definitely have some beautiful ones. Shame they don't sell single polyps so I can't afford any of them right now. How much is their shipping?

That was the thing I liked so much about sealifeflorida.com, they sell by the single polyp so broke people like me can still get rics. They also have reasonable shipping unlike every other reef place I've been to online. For shrooms and rics (and several other critters) they offer $12 USPS priority shipping, and they still gaurantee it alive. Can't beat that too easily.
 
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