Ricordea
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The0wn4g3
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From what I've heard, ricordea split faster in areas of high flow. It seems like the opposite would be true, but that's what I've been told by multiple people.
I don't have any more, but I would target feed mine. I never had one split, but they did grow much faster when target fed.
I don't have any more, but I would target feed mine. I never had one split, but they did grow much faster when target fed.
Tomoko Schum
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I wrapped a fishing line around a ricordea tightly over its mouth and it split into two in a few weeks.
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WickedReefer
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I have my yuma for a very long time (well like 2-3 years) and when it decided to move to another rock it left two pieces of itself behind that turned out being two little yumas (this happened like 3 months ago). Now my original is like the size of my palm (bright reddish pink with a green mouth) and the offsprings are the size of a nickel. I'm too afraid to spit them manually so I just let it spit on its own.
freddy4130
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I have two yumas that I got for a steal. I am going to cut one of them into 4. I'll let you know how it turns out. I also have a florida that is currently splitting right now. It looks horrible, like the process is killing it or something. It came off the rock about three days ago. It was just kind of hanging out on the bare bottom until I trapped it between two pieces of rubble. When I got all those, I also got one that had been cut in half at the mouth. It has since healed and is doing fine. I say, if you can muster up the guts, just cut them up like regular shrooms. I have read a million different things. garf says you can cut them up. I can't imagine that all the places that have them for sale by the hundreds are just letting them split naturally.
Does the same go for a bullseye also? I got jumpy, (which in reef terms is a mistake I know) and cut a red/ brown mushroom with my surgical scissors to see if it would heal back with more than one. I was wondering if you could cut a BE the same way.The one I cut has three bumps on the mouth where it had only one. Just my thoughts and wonders.
Chris
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In my experience the Walking and leaving Small pieced attached to the rock, is how my ricordeas have split, if you can call it that it moved off of a small rock onto a large one, it looked almost like it was avoiding the high flow of the power head. the pieces that tore off now have become 5 nice3 looking ricordeas. I ended up moving the current away so as to give the mushroom a change to recover. I am not sure if that is necesary but It was or is I should say a large mushroom and it seemed to lose a couple of pant sizes as it made its trip.
atlantisaquari
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i once had 3 rics on the bottom of a 10 gal tank with seahorses. and it was 100% bubble driven. skimmer air stones, everything. it has like 100 watts of power compacts on it. and of course feeding the seahorses mysis twice a day . a lot of it fell on the rics . the little bubbles tentacles on the rics would pass the shrimp up to the mouth where it is consumed. i think within about 8 months the orange had split into 8. the green split into like5 and the purple split into 3 i think.
every other way i have tried rics just didnt seem to work.
every other way i have tried rics just didnt seem to work.
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