Ricordea Care

[jackson6745]

I picked up a ricordea colony last week (around 8 polyps). I have it in my display tank which has a lot of flow and makes it difficult to feed them. A polyp here and there will occasionally consume the mysis that I place in the polyp. Usually it just blows away.
If I was to place the colony in my low flow refugium and feed daily, would I see a significant improvement in growth?

 

[jhart]

I just bought a Yuma 2 weeks ago , and I seen the same problem with the water current blowing the food around, I now turn off all my water current but my hippo likes to steal the food out of the mouth
Survival of the fittest .

Btw .Im ordering those sps's today, the fill looks good. And there will be alittle surprise for next week. ill post a full list in a few ..

 

[Zuska]

turn off the flow when you feed. I feed mine once a week and i dont see to much improvement on growth but as in my other corals feeding is def a plus for the chalices and acans

 

[vio]

Is this Ricordea ?

 

[Shark Man]

Is this Ricordea ?

Looks like hairy mushroom !!

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Yea rich as zuska said cut flow once or twice a week for 30 min n feed em :eat:

 

[vio]

Looks like hairy mushroom !!

I m sorry, but I dont want to hijack the tread, but I'm interested in those too. Thank You.

 

[prattreef]

I have never intentionally fed a ricordia.

 

[duke62]

Rics dont need to be fed directly. Ive had mine for 3 years and never fed.

 

[skene]

I don't feed ricordea, yumas or mushrooms. If you feed the tank with any liquid phyto once a week, they will feed off of that and photosynthesis.

 

[jackson6745]

I never fed them much before either but I heard that if they are fed regularly they will grow faster? Can anyone confirm this? These freakin things became so expensive over the years

 

[Weicowireman]

I have a small collection of shrooms, ric's and yuma's. I have never directly fed then either. I do feed coral frenzy weekly but that is over high flow so everyone gets some. Mine are splitting all the time.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Try feeding them directly and let us no within a month any difference you notice. Take before n after pics

 

[Tonyscoots84]

I would think they woukd benefit from it. We can call this the "the jackson project" :lol2:

 

[House of Laughter]

I would think they woukd benefit from it. We can call this the "the jackson project" :lol2:

SPS Pimp gone wild on ricordia project

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