Yuma detached

[JReefaddict]

Yuma detached

That was what was happening. I started to notice black spots and it was losing its color and I could see through the mouth to the other side. I have other rics in the same tank that are doing just fine. It just sucks cause it was an expensive Yuma. But I went to go do what you said this morning, I was planning on just letting it go in the tank in an area of low flow, but there was nothing there when I went to move it. You can't please everything. It's a lesson learned. Don't assume because you've kept something similar. I assumed since I have multiple Florida rics and they're all doing well that a Yuma would be no different. I've since learned otherwise. I don't regret purchasing it but I could've put the money towards a chiller. My tank doesn't have temp problems, the chiller is incase we have a hurricane down here and lose power for an extended period of time

 

[KorL]

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.

Agree. The survival rate on wild yumas isn't good. I have yet to see anyone local to me have any success with rainbow yumas. I've been tempted to buy a couple in the past at the LFS but would be scared off because of the price. I would go back a couple weeks later and the yumas had melted away.

Stick with tank raised. Generally solid colors pinks, reds, orange, greens and some two tone colored yumas do well. I usually see these being sold as tank raised at frag swaps

 

[JReefaddict]

I may try one tank raised from a frag swap. Just don't want to buy another to have it melt away

 

[atteb66]

I have to agree with some of the suggestions here. I am struggling with both Floridas and Yuma's right now.

My Florida's 3 of them have bleached due to my lights, but now I have the dimmer and pray everyday they will come back, all 3 still have green showing so here is hoping. My blue Florida is doing okay but its new and was not in there when I did not have the dimmer.

My one and only Yuma loves to go for a walk, so this is where I have to agree, let them be I have found in this short time that if I can place them between rubble or small rock, let them attach if they want to they seem a lot happier. The first 3 Florida's I have even though they bleached I do think the glue did not help them at all even though they were attached to small pieces of shell when I bought them and then I glued the shells to the rock.

One of them I took of the rock 2 days ago, I was luck to be able to break it off the rock and it was still attached to the shell and I placed it on the sand bed next to some rock rubble and just in 2 days alone the color is looking better thank goodness but the expansion of it reaching to the rubble beside it is what I noticed.

I just came home and my Yuma detached from the rock it was on, is now wedged between two pieces of rubble expanded quite a bit so I am going to just leave it alone and see if it happy there.

My tank is a small pico so I only have Ricordeas and 2 zoa frags so my current is not strong to blow them around.

 

[JReefaddict]

If I do get another it is most likely going into my nano. Yumas are just so expensive

 

[atteb66]

My LFs here charges the same price for both types, hope she does not change $26.95

What do you pay there for Yumas on the average?

 

[JReefaddict]

That Yuma was $150. I think that is high. Ricordeas are 20 bucks on average from all the LFS around me

 

[kochis4]

That Yuma was $150. I think that is high. Ricordeas are 20 bucks on average from all the LFS around me

That's a lot of cash for a Yuma.

 

[KorL]

High price tag with low survival rate.

 

[JReefaddict]

I agree. Had I known the low survival rate I would've put the money towards some new equipment or another coral.

 

[atteb66]

I hear ya on the prices we pay for corals, fish etc and their survival rate. I just lost one of my L046 Zebra Plecos, it still makes me sick just talking about it. If you know anything about these plecos they are not cheap, so now I have one very expensive pleco left, doing lots of praying each day it grows up to be one knock out fish. Hubby said no more as they had to be flown here no one around close breeds them.

I also feel the same way with zoas, some of those can fetch a high price they come in a real cool array of colors too but I will only buy the really cheap $10 frags, go to the bathroom come back and their gone, yep they are one kind of coral I have never had luck with.

Here is a pic of my two plecos now just one...:sad2:

The one on the right side is the one I still have.

 

[JReefaddict]

I don't know much about plecos. I've had the same with some zoas. It depends, some are defiantly hardier than others