Do not frag ricordeas!!

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alexmir

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I had a beautiful orange and blue ricordea for a few months, and it only had one mouth, so i decided to frag it into 6 pieces, it sounded like a great idea.
It is now 2 months later, and i have lost 4 of the six pieces, and the 2 pieces that survived have shown practically no growth in 2 months time.
I recommend just feeding them, and keeping them healthy and wait for the rics to split themselves.
If you have one with multiple mouths, fragging may go better but i do not recommend doing it with only one mouth.
 
valgae

valgae

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if u ever do try again use a rubberband across the mouth if u can. it will split its self. ive heard of pushing toothpicks thru in any area also.
 
flricordia

flricordia

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6 times is a bit much. You should only cut through the mouth once. Also need to make sure calcium levels are up and add iodine to the tank to help it heal faster. Use it only as directed. If you use a once a week type, frag them the day you add it.
I frag them all the time and sometimes not even paying attention if a good show is on or talking on the phone and never have any problems, but I don't cut them more than once unless there are multi-mouths and then only between the mouths.
I wouldn't do the rubberband thing. Puts too much stress on the ric for too long a time. Better to cut it quickly and let it get on with its healing. THe rubberband fragging will only cause it to slime more than it needs too.
Touching it will cause it to slime, cutting it will keep it slimming but putting it back into the tank and leaving it alone it will soon stop slimming and start healing.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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I frag mine quite often. while they arent as durable as discosomas, I have yet to kill one during fragging. I have done it several ways. I have quartered them, halved them, just cut the head off, cut a section off one side.
I dont think saying dont frag something because of a single bad expirience is warranted, advising caution may be a good idea for begginners. If I said dont frag something for every coral frag I have killed trying to figure out the best way to do it I wouldnt be fragging much of anything.
 
sharkbait9

sharkbait9

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Originally Posted by Flricordia
http:///forum/post/2613812
6 times is a bit much. You should only cut through the mouth once. Also need to make sure calcium levels are up and add iodine to the tank to help it heal faster. Use it only as directed. If you use a once a week type, frag them the day you add it.
I frag them all the time and sometimes not even paying attention if a good show is on or talking on the phone and never have any problems, but I don't cut them more than once unless there are multi-mouths and then only between the mouths.
I wouldn't do the rubberband thing. Puts too much stress on the ric for too long a time. Better to cut it quickly and let it get on with its healing. THe rubberband fragging will only cause it to slime more than it needs too.
Touching it will cause it to slime, cutting it will keep it slimming but putting it back into the tank and leaving it alone it will soon stop slimming and start healing.

I thought ric were as close to anemones as one could get. Are they not in the anemone family? I also thought you really are not supposed to cut them but feed them to make them grow and split cause they don't handle cutting very well. Mike any truth? If you can cut these bad boys.... oh I am so going jack the ripper on my buddys.
 
flricordia

flricordia

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Originally Posted by sharkbait9
http:///forum/post/2615487
I thought ric were as close to anemones as one could get. Are they not in the anemone family? I also thought you really are not supposed to cut them but feed them to make them grow and split cause they don't handle cutting very well. Mike any truth? If you can cut these bad boys.... oh I am so going jack the ripper on my buddys.
Rics are actually in the corallimorpharian family along with mushrooms. There are two type of ricordea, yuma and florida. Yuma are deeper water varirty from the pacific and florida from the Caribbean. Yumas move and leave footprints, like most corallimorpharins, which grow into new yumas, whereas floridas split, like tongas mushrooms. They can also be cut and as long as water parameters are in the acceptable range they will regrow. I have even accidentally mashed them with falling LR only to have they mush regrow into new rics. They are one of the hardiest corals as long as calcium levels are maintained and adequate lighting.
As far as being like anemones they they fall under the classification of sea-anemones and have spirocysts, the bubble-like projections across their disk, which make them anemone-like in appearance, but not of 'true' anemones. I think the others are colonial anemones and tube anemones. Ricordea are 'false corals' in the sea-anemone grouping.
That gave me a headache.
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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at ***.com dude got a ricordea, put it through a cuisinart, and poured the contents into a dixie cup with sand on the bottom and a lid and some small poked holes and no flow. he ended up with about 2 dozen tiny tiny ricordeas. did you use a proper blade to cut them?
Please do not post links to other BB its against the rules of this board. thank you
 
flricordia

flricordia

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Originally Posted by Nano Reefer
http:///forum/post/2648577
at nano-reef.com dude got a ricordea, put it through a cuisinart, and poured the contents into a dixie cup with sand on the bottom and a lid and some small poked holes and no flow. he ended up with about 2 dozen tiny tiny ricordeas. did you use a proper blade to cut them?
Only thing wiht that is it will take a long, long time to get them to 1/4 inch. THe smaller they are the longer they take to grow. I have some that I did close to the same thing to and that was last summer and they are just now just reaching 1/4 inch. I used to cut rics in quarters, but it took too long for them to grow back out. Now I only halve them and only then if they have grown double mouths. It only takes a couple weeks to get a divided ric with a full mouth to reach near its pre-cut size, and with each generation they tend to grow faster. I imagine it has to do with adaptation to the tank enviroment and parameters.
 
nano reefer

nano reefer

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sorry mods, i didnt know links to other forums werent allowed, this must be new because i have talked about them before... and what's BB?
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2652519
It's not new it's always been the rule.
BB= bulletin boards.
Right Nano Reefer, you have been here for almost a full year. These rules are not new. You should be fully aware of them by now. If you posted something, and it was not deleted, then chances are it was simply missed by the mods. You have been here long enough to know the rules of this board.
 
otley 1975

otley 1975

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I had a ric that was attached to two rock and didn't know that it was attached to two rocks. When I picked the rock up a piece stayed on the rock and the piece came out of the tank. Both did well and grew new mouths quickly. You can frag just about everything in your tank.
 
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