Ricordea Health

[mommafish]

I bought 3 ricordea from swf and all three look different. How do you tell whether they are healthy or not? One is a pale pink color and waves all the time. One is light green and will wave every once in a while. The third is a darker green and is not as plump as the other two & doesn't "wave" at all. All three open and close intermittantly. Any ideas?

 

[michaeltx]

I am not to sure I have little to no experience with ricordea. but you might post this in the reef forumn to get a wider coral keeping group and see what they have to say.
Mike

 

[cincyreefer]

If they are still new then they will act kinda weird. But if they are opening up real nice then I would say they are fine. As long as they dont stay closed for awhile or start to shrivel up then they are fine.

 

[infalable]

Are they all together? If not, there may be variations of the water flow that effects them. That is the case in my tank.

 

[wyldgunz]

There are differnt color variations in ricordea. I wouldnt worry about it they are a tough shroom.
Here are my 2 ricordea's ones pale green and growing fast other is newer and has strong colors.

 

[wyldgunz]

The Brighter one

 

[saltypatti]

are they very hardy???
Are they the best to start with when you are starting a reef???
I still need equipment and rearrange my rock, but I wanted to do some research on what the best things are to start with.
SWF.com sells 5 ricordea for $20.00. My lfs mentioned something about charging me $100.00 for 5. He said that they were mushroom polyps. That seems high to me. Are the ones on SWF.com a good size when you get them???? How do you attach them???
Patti

 

[tony detroit]

Superglue/rubberband to rock. If you do superglue, do it slow, you can get it on a fingertip and then get it on the coral and mess things up.
You can also use marine epoxy if it is already on a small piece of rock to secure that piece to a larger piece of rock.