Ricordeas Dieing, Please Help

[FSOL]

I bought a nice rock w/ 10 beautiful ricordeas on it and slowly they are dieing.

The first few days they looked great and expanded larger than at the LFS.

Now two of them near the bottom part of the rock are almost disintegrated away and I can see the next one that was next to these is starting to look a bit slimy on the edges.

Tank chem. is great. The only thing I've done this past two days is run phosban in the phosban reactor, which brought my phosphate level from 0.1 to 0.03ppm.

What could be happening here? It's at the bottom of the tank, on the sandbed, and is not in the vicinity of any corals. The two that died were touching the sandbed a little, but I doubt this was the cause.

Thanks

 

[Brandon's Reef]

did you try moving them higher and did you aclimate them?

 

[FSOL]

I acclimated them and they were doing very good in the first few days. I could even see some growth in a very small piece. It almost grew by 20%.

I haven't moved it in the tank. I have MH's and don't want to burn them. I have brains and acans at the bottom of the tank that are doing great.

 

[reefshadow]

Are these floridas or yumas? The r.yuma has been getting alot of attention lately for meltdowns, poor shipping.

Yeah, I wouldn't move them up. If you have acans and brains doing fine, it's enough light for rics.

Do you have very strong flow on them? Mine prefer a more gentle flow, just enough to keep them clean.

Do you have other rics in the tank? How are they doing?

 

[FSOL]

This rock piece w/ the ricordeas on it was at the LFS for months and always looked good.

I brought it in, temp. acclimated it and now its placed in an area w/ very gentle flow. You can hardly see them moving.

I got it a week ago and first few days they grew a lot bigger than at the LFS. Their color darkened a little though. These were orange/golden colored ricordeas.

I don't have other ricordeas in the tank.

Oh and I don't know the difference between yumas and floridas.


So should I do anything to it? Lugol's dip, move it around in the tank, or get rid of the two melted pieces from off the rock?

 

[11fishes]

is it FutureSoundsOfLondon?

 

[74nautique]

Do you do more than temp acclimate?

 

[Zoalander]

Whats the temp in your tank, I've noticed that rics like temp around 77 degrees. When your temp is around 8o they don't do as well.

 

[sabodish]

is something eating them? i had a crab that i just yanked out that was eating one polyp a night. the rics he would damage and not completely eat looked like they were melting just as you describe. if they start totally disappearing, ill bet something is eating them.
have you been losing anything else? my crab also LOVED to eat zoanthids.

 

[rustybucket145]

Have you ever target fed them?

 

[Zaphod]

IMO Rics are not that dificult what do youmean tank chem is great. What are the numbers? Somthing is wrong.