Ricordia frag help?

ricordin

ricordin

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I have a green ricordia. I tried fraggin it and dont know if I was successful. Was I suppose to cut it in the middle so that I would get a piece of the white center. I used a razor and cut a small piece from the edge and netted it to an empty snail shell. I did it about 5 days ago and it doesn't move but it isnt deterioating like dead things do. Can someone help?
 
rickster

rickster

Member
Ricordea reproduce by pedal laceration, transverse fission, and longitudinal fission...which in english means that most fragments are capable of growing into a complete animal....Ricordea do not grow as fast as you might think....show patience and you should be ok.
 
bang guy

bang guy

Moderator
They grow slower that onther mushrooms and don't seem to heal fast enough to survive fragging. They will split on their own if you keep them well fed.
 
ryebread

ryebread

Active Member
I have tried fragging Ricordia on two seperate occasions with two different methods to no avail. I have been successful by doing just what BangGuy said.........they will frag themselves when they are ready.
I have a rock with 15-20 green Florida Ricordia mushrooms on it and about once every three to four weeks I will find a small new mushroom growing on the rock or a Ricordia that has dropped off of the original rock and attached itself to something new. :)
 
ryebread

ryebread

Active Member
No.......sometimes my Ricordea are school buses as well. I had this one that turned out to be an undercover secret agent but, he ended up in the refugium for treason.
 
dinhouse

dinhouse

Member
I have found that you can cut them but I would stick to cutting them in half rather than going any smaller they grow slow and I have had quite a bit of success with halving them as apossed to slicing and dicing them like regular mushrooms!
 
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