Unfragging & re-fragging ricordea?

Reefmack

Reefmack

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What's the best way to remove a ricordea from a piece of LR or a frag plug? Do you just cut it off at the base? If so do you have to get every bit of it off, or just cut it off above where it's attached?

To remount on a small piece of LR - hold it on with a piece of net till attached again?

Can a bare base, after cutting off, be superglued to LR in or out of the tank or are they too slippery to have the glue hold, or would the direct contact with the glue kill the ricordea?

Thanks
 
Scrap w/ a razor blade underneath the substrate their on so you have attach them to somethings else without having to reattach.....:)
 
Dont glue any shroom, they dont react very well at all to it. Net them babies down loosely, you might even get the butcherd stump to regrow so dont give up on it either.
 
i put mine in a high flo erea thjen when thier almost detached i pluck them off with my thumb..


scott
 
Hi. I got the 3 yumas delivered today and they were on small pieces of rubble that were very easy to glue in place on my LR, so no need to remove & re-attach them. Nice yumas too - nice orange, blue and green, with bright green mouths. They're starting to open up nicely now.
 
Just so you know, it sounds like you have Ricordea floridas, not Ricordea yumas :D

You should try to get some pics of them so you can show them off to everyone.
 
Nope - definitely yumas as far as I can tell - they have the buds all over the sides of the mouth, plus yumas is what I ordered. I already have blue & green floridas and these aren't floridas. The orange one was pricey too. I was, however, wrong on the mouth color of the blue one - not bright green - the mouth is only green on the orange & green ones. I'll get some pics tomorrow after they've had a day to acclimate and maybe intensify their coloring.
 
Oh, my mistake. I've never seen yumas with bright green mouths -- which is why I thought they were floridas. Now I really hope you get some pics of them :D

Where did you purchase them out of curiosity?
 
No problem. It's actually a neon green ring around the edge of the mouths - pretty striking. I'll get some pics tomorrow.
 
I finally took a couple quick pics of the new Ricordea Yumas:

Orange - the ring around the mouth is actually an electric neon green color, not bright yellow as in the picture:

OrangeYuma.jpg


Green - the green mouth ring shows up a tiny bit better in this pic, but it's a lot more of an electric neon green than the picture shows.:

GreenYuma.jpg


Blue Yuma - I had to reglue this one today - it was attached to 2 small pieces of live rock underneath, and when I pushed the second piece down to glue it in place, I tore the mouth into 3 sections. Grrrr! It seems OK & hopefully each mouth section will regrow a new mouth, or it will eventually heal with one new complete mouth? Any ideas?

BlueYuma.jpg
 
Gorgeous yumas! Mind sharing your source?

Yumas don't usually split like floridas do, so it will most likely just heal back up into one mouth.
 
Thanks & thanks for the info. I'll settle for one mouth as long as it heals well. Liveaquaria was my source. I actually ordered the orange and 2 greens so I was happy to see a predominantly blue one show up!
 
Good luck. Let us know how the yuma fragging ends up. That blue one above is healing nicely - it's going back to one mouth and about 2/3 of the way there. I'll post a pic when it's finished.
 
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