Ricordea Removal?

[rlpardue]

A little baby ricordea somehow traveled across the tank from its mother and planted itself on a nice SPS rock. It was ok for awhile, but it grew into 5 more and they are getting bigger and stinging an SPS now.

How do I remove a ricordea from a rock?

 

[swk]

I've had good luck removing stray shrooms with the mojano wand. You have to get all of it though, otherwise they simply regenerate and grow back.

 

[Usernam Invalid]

Can use Red Sea aiptasia X or Kalk paste place directly onto the mouth of the ricordia

 

[Myka]

A little baby ricordea somehow traveled across the tank from its mother and planted itself on a nice SPS rock. It was ok for awhile, but it grew into 5 more and they are getting bigger and stinging an SPS now.

How do I remove a ricordea from a rock?

That's not unusual at all. All types of mushrooms can detached from the rock and tumble around the tank until they find a new spot where they then reattach. Makes them a pain in the butt sometimes.

Do you want to save the Ricordea or do you want to kill it? Both the above methods mentioned will kill the Ricordea. If you want to keep the Ricordea, you can use a hammer and chisel, but you'd have to remove the rock and chisel at it outside of the tank. Hammer + chisel + glass tank bottom = bad idea. :fun4:

 

[Gotzegot28]

To kill it, just inject it with hyper salty water or boiling water. Both have no negative effects on the tabk4

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[rlpardue]

Woah, you guys are brutal, haha! I was thinking something like "use a RODI ice cube until it detaches" or "just pry it off with your fingers,' or maybe even "use bone cutters to cut as close to the base as possible."

I don't really mind the Ricordea dying, but would prefer to keep one I guess. If I inject them with one of the above cocktails, and they die in the tank, will it harm the water quality? (200g volume)

 

[Gotzegot28]

No
Mushrooms reproduce with pedal laceration. I.e regrowing from cut pieces. You must kill the remaining piece or it will grow back.

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[rlpardue]

Cool, thank you, that means no ripping them off then...will give the salty-water injection a try!

 

[Gotzegot28]

Cool! Good luck to you

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[Gotzegot28]

H2O2 also works as it turns into h2o in contact with water

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[micromax]

I have seen people just scrap the foot carefully to remove the mushroom then put it in a small breeder tank with gravel and wait till it reattaches then glue to a good spot. I think if your shrooms aren't nice enough to try to save then it's time to get nicer shrooms ... To be fair tho I'm a shroom addict lol