Split Green Ricordea

[bckane]

My Ricordea is splitting....its weird the rock is about 2" away
Been in the same spot for over a year....guess its time to move....

 

[Rogger Castells]

Brian, You sure that is Ricordia, I have a piece that looks similar to the picture and splits about twice a year, mine is a green metalic hairy mushroom.
From my observations ricordia usually forms a second mouth within the polyps way before it starts splitting, from there the splitting process is very slow, sometimes even months.
The mushroom on the other hand is a more quickly split and starts as a melting bubble gum, actually allowing the weight of one side pull on the other, I usually cant even tell were is it going to break cause thee is no mouth form yet, the whole process takes about 3 weeks.

 

[bckane]

I believe your right Rogger...Its a Hairy Mushroom...My Bad on the Ricordia

 

[Auryn]

question for you
i had a green hairy mushroom split just like u described rogger,
took over 2 weeks to split completely

then the 2 halves seemed fine for a couple of weeks and then they both disintigrated.
any idea what could have caused the death after the seemingly ok split?

 

[Bret61081]

I have a ton of these guys to bring to the swap if anyone is interested!! =)

 

[Rogger Castells]

Auryn, sometimes this mushrooms split due to stress, the only thing I could think of is that they may have also die do to that stress, But this is just pure speculation