Rics with T5

[Ancelot]

Show me some pics!

I hardly see a good ric garden in either SPS or mixed reef with t5s and still able to hold the colours and colour intensity. Usually I see them pretty bleached and looked hardly uninterested.

So, please show me some and buy me over. I am looking for a good switch

Otherwise, tell me it's fine to keep rics under T5s

 

[Ludwigia73]

Wish I could... I bought 2 polyps, 1 melted in 2 days, the other is going on 6 months, slowly bleaching and withering away. Not necessarily the lights' fault, but could be. I'd like some answers to this question as well... Tagging along.

 

[kichimark]

I have these R. floridas in a mixed reef with a 48inch 6 bulb t5 sunpower over a 90 gallon. They are on the bottom. The pink ric on the bottom I just got and looks much better in person.

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[israel.kendall]

The ones I posted in this thread I have kept for about a month to a month and a half under a 48" 2 bulb T5 HO in a 55 gallon. I've only had them a short time (it's not exactly a ric garden either), but they have grown quite a bit and one is just now finishing splitting off a new mouth. A couple are mid tank, and a couple on the sand bed. The colors still look really great, so they can survive in relatively low light. I'm putting in another 2 bulb T5 strip tomorrow and I can't wait to see how they do under higher lighting.

 

[Waco Pilot]

We have some Ricordia as well in our 75g with T-5's. The 3 Florida Rics are doing just fine and are in the upper third of the tank and are expanding. The Yumas have all but died. Tried mid-water, tried the bottom, tried partially hidden under a shelf. All bleached out in a short time and basically self-disintegrated. One was a beautiful rock with no less than 10 Rics which really hurt!