Yuma detached

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He guys I recently purchased a Yuma, pics are in a thread below. This morning it had detached from the rock it was on and was floating around do I took a little larger piece of rubble and very gently put a rubber band around to hold it. There's just barely enough pressure to hold it on the rock, should I have done something different to get it to attach to a new rock? And was it detaching a sign that it was getting too much light or something?
 
Yumas are really finicky, and about half of them just detach and die within a month of you getting them in your tank. Of course this doesn't mean we shouldn't try to save it....

Try putting it in a container with rubble rock in it. Don't put the rubber and around it. Keep it In a low light low flow area and add some iodine to your tank or dip it, and see if that helps. Good luck.
 
Ok I'll try that when I get home. The rubber band was all I could do in the morning early before I had to go to work. Besides him detaching he looks fine. I'll take a Tupperware and poke a bunch of holes and put some rocks in and let him float around in there
 
i dipped him in lugols as soon as i got home. i dipped him for 15 mins. i then set up a cup with holes that i could keep him in with some rubble rock. immediately after i was done dipping there was this like stringy stuff on the underside and the top had black spots. i took a pic, im not sure if that was because of the lugols or a sign of something else

Untitled by jreefaddict, on Flickr
 
i just tested nitrates and they showed to be about 40-60 with an api test kit. although i do not entirely trust that tests accuracy, im going to try and make a run to my lfs tonight before they close for them to a water test for me. the tank is a 57 gallon deep blue edge rimless with a 125g rated sump (not sure what size) and i do weekly water changes of 10 gallons
lighting is a 4 bulb t5 with 2 ATI coral plus and 2 ATI blue plus bulbs, the yuma was almost on the sand at the bottom. i moved it to a cup towards the top but in front of the light fixture so it is in very low light and low flow
 
so its safe to say my nitrate test was wrong. here are my parameters

salinity: 1.026
pH: 8.3
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 5
ammonia: 0
 
That Yuma is a beauty! I hope it hangs on and reattaches! Your parameters look good. But really, its just the nature of yumas that are wild harvested for them to die for no apparent reason. Whenever I get a yuma, I never really consider it "mine" until its survived for a month in my tank. The yuma in my avatar melted almost after 3 weeks in my tank, really quickly, and for no apparent reason.
 
well, i checked on it today and the black that was around the center was not as bad, but there is still black on the underside around the edges, not sure what that means. im not sure if i should continue dipping in iodine or not.
 
So I've had the Yuma in low light, low flow in a cup with holes in the display and and it still hasn't attached to a rock, I don't want to glue it, how long does it take for them to attach themselves? Or is there a reason he's not attaching
 
It will take a week or two for it to attach the rubber rock it like. It just happened to me.
 
In my opinion, I would just let the yuma go in your tank on its own. They are anemone's of a sort and I find very finicky. I think if you let it go it will settle someplace and have a better chance of survival. Yuma's and rics hate plugs and glue anywhere near them as well in my my experience. I have seen plugs with yumas glued like crazy on them only for them to pull away or melt. They seem to like substrate or live rock. Yuma's don't need to be attached to anything to survive.

philosophile: I had the same thing happen to my pink yuma as you did. I had an entire rock melt away and when I tried the same color again, only one this time, it too melted for no reason. My orange yuma's are extremely healthy and thriving for a year. My Florida rics are healthy as well and thriving. I am staying away from pink yuma. In my opinion they belong in the wild.
 
JReefaddict said:
So I've had the Yuma in low light, low flow in a cup with holes in the display and and it still hasn't attached to a rock, I don't want to glue it, how long does it take for them to attach themselves? Or is there a reason he's not attaching
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It's probably not a good idea to put it in a tupperware with the lid with holes punched in it. It will not get enough flow to it to keep it clean and fed and if the yuma gives off any chemicals or waste it will waste away in its own contaminates. It would be better to cover the tupperware with bridal vail. Cut the bridal veil to a size slightly larger than the opening of the container and attach it with a rubber band around the edge of the container and place that in the tank if you want to go the tupperware route. :thumbsup:
 
I have a pink Yuma that is doing well (from cherry corals). It really is the wild caught ones that don't do well.

JR: if it's still shrinking and it's been this long since it's detached, I would bet that it's looking pretty nasty. Often they produce a slime covering that turns kind of milky. I don't know if it should be removed or not. I've left it on in the past and it seems like they deteriorate faster... Removing it with a blast from a baster is pretty easy, and they do a little better for a while but then they just go down hill. Maybe try another iodine dip? Again, the territory you're in is tough. No real solution has been found and it's frustratingly common with yumas. So feel free to try something out of the box. Maybe an antibiotic? I've read that some people cut open the Yuma and give it a good cleaning on the inside with iodine, but I've never done that.
 
I'm going to pull it out and let it go in the tank tomorrow. It was my first Yuma and didn't know they were finicky until after I bought it. If I had known I wouldn't have bought it
 
JReefaddict said:
I'm going to pull it out and let it go in the tank tomorrow. It was my first Yuma and didn't know they were finicky until after I bought it. If I had known I wouldn't have bought it
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Don't be discouraged from them. They are beautiful creatures. The best bet is to make sure you get them tank raised. Maybe at a frag swap in your area? Also, I have had better luck with the Ricordia Florida. Plus they are less costly.
 
I've had good luck with Florida rics, I'm not discouraged, and I don't regret buying it, but had I known I would've done more research before I bought one. I assumed they were they same as Florida rics which are very easy to care for. I may try another one from a frag swap that's tank raised. A classic case of caring too much in the wrong way. And the piece I was trying to get him to attach to was a piece of live rock not a frag plug. I was just worried he would fall under the rock work into a crevice and end up dying. Not something I wanted to let happen to an expensive mushroom
 
How is it doing today? What I have done in the past with stubborn yuma's and stubborn florida's is to just kind of place them in an area where they can butt up against an attached ricordia. They seem to like one another alot. I have yuma's and florida's together with no problems. Or else you can butt it up against a rock on the substrate where there is not as much flow so it kind of gets stuck where you want it to get stuck and encircle it with rubble so it can't move. It must not like something about the rocks or the flow or the lighting or the chemical balance you have in your tank. Or a combination of all of those. I would guess the flow. Or possibly there is just something wrong with it and there is nothing you can do. If it starts changing/losing color, oozing and has a gaping mouth, it is probably sick.
 
Just an add on: I am not saying there is something wrong with your water or tank flow. I have learned in this hobby that you cannot possibly satisfy every single animal in my tank just like in life. :spin1: It will make you crazy :hmm4:
 
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