Question

[mr.reef]

Ok yesturday i got a new ric. and it is huge like 3 in across for $10. i wanted to know it is not is only hanging on to zoos and it keeps floating off. how should i keep it in one place. and i run a uv on my tank i have heard that this hurts the growth of the corals is this true?

 

[mr.reef]

bump

 

[btldreef]

I bought a bunch of ricordia that all shriveled up and detached from the rock and floated away. I was later told that I did not acclimate properly. From what I've been told and read since then, ricordias need to be acclimated differently from other basic corals. You might what to research that a little. Yours sounds like it's doing the same thing mine did. Hopefully yours don't turn out like mine, dead.

 

[meowzer]

You can also take a piece of net, and tie it to a rock...in a week it should be attached...
I did not acclimate any of my rics differently...I have had a few floaties too though...LOL

 

[jas1]

Mine took about three days to attach. I aclimated them the same as my fish, slowly. Just put them in a place where there is minimal flow and hermits and snails can't knock them around.

 

[posiden]

Originally Posted by Jas1
http:///forum/post/3156204
Mine took about three days to attach. I aclimated them the same as my fish, slowly. Just put them in a place where there is minimal flow and hermits and snails can't knock them around.

I-I on that. Darned hermits and snails, I hate them.
Good luck to you sir.

 

[janastasio]

I would put it into a little container of rubble rock to contain it. It should attach to piece of the rubble and then you can super glue that to a larger rock or fix it however you like to your rocks. I've rubber banded my rics in the past without problems. Sometimes they stayed sometimes they didnt!

 

[mr.reef]

well see i got it from the lfs that had them in the coral tank and they had drop a little one. so i was like i want it. and they gave it to me but it had attached to some zoos and idk if i put it somewhere will it attach again.