My ricordia

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KidNano

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So I have a rock with about 13 rics on it that I just purchased a couple weeks ago. one of them is turning yellow and closing up. Could this be from too much flow? Too much light?

you can kind of see the one I'm talking about towards the bottom. It's a side shot of the ric. The others don't look happy because I was moving the rock around, but normally look much better.

 
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reefman23

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I think the lighting is fine, it may be the flow. Rics dont like much flow from what Ive heard.

Nice piece BTW.

Jesse
 
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KidNano

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These guys are really starting to not look good. I haven't been able to view them during the day but at night when I get home they're just not happy. Everything else in my tank is doing really well. I tested everything last night and it's all exactly where it's supposed to be. I'm going to keep an eye on them tomorrow while I'm home. It has to be flow but I can't find a spot for them where there isn't much. I think I need to get more LR and create some barriers or something. This is tricky.
 
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Trogdor

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How high are these guys in the tank and how much light? I thought that ric's loved light but mine was all shriveled up when I had it high in the tank. As soon as I moved it down, it started opening and growing. It might be a combination of the two.
 
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KidNano

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I just moved them down to the bottom corner where there is decent light and barely any flow. They still don't look happy. We'll see how they look tomorrow.
 
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johnanddawn

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light/tank acclimation
you've done the right thing by putting them down in the corner. always start all new corals down low. i only have a couple rics but they are hidden in the bottom back corners where flow and light is lower. some say rics like light but i think that is a relative term compared to other shrooms - they still like "lower" light and flow and all corals need to be acclimated slowly to any new lighting/flow/tank params
 
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KidNano

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OK I need help with my rics. I had a beautiful rock with 13 beautiful big green Ricordia on it and now I have 13 shriveled up yellow things attached to my rock. I've moved my heads and tried my hardest to get them out of the flow. It's the strangest thing becuase everything else in my tank is thriving. My frogspawn is finally a really deep rich green all my zoos are growing all my other mushrooms are open and growing. My elephant ear is really happy and open all the time. I just don't get it.

Thanks.
 
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KidNano

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they're at the very bottomof the tank and i only have 2x 54 T5 any way. At the LFS they were at the top of the tank under MH.
 
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KidNano

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Everything is fine with the Params. The only thing that's bothering me with those is my calcium is consistently down at 400. I don't really have anything besides the frogspawn that's dependent on that though. I do 5 gallon water changes every 4-5 days and top off about a gallon a everyday. I think its' too late now anyway. They've started falling off the rock. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: there's $45 down the toilet.
 
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Trogdor

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what tests did you run? i'm trying to find something that might be out of balance that maybe you haven't tested for. do you dose anything?
 
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KidNano

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I don't dose anything.
ammonia 0
nitrates 0
nitrites 0
PH 8
gravity 1.023
calcium 400

Those are the only tests I can do. every 3 days I'll put 1/2 oz. of DT's phytoplankton.

5 gallon water changes every 5 days and about .5-1 gallon RO top off everyday.
 
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johnanddawn

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i don't think it is a systemic problem, ie the rest of your critters are fine right? just the new rics dying? so then the prob is either adjustment to your system - for some reason they couldn't take the change in environment from the lfs tank to yours or they were unhealthy to begin with and may have been going down hill from the start. 45$ for 13 rics sounds a bit fishy to me maybe the guy new they were struggling i've seen quality rics go for 10$ a polyp many times
other then that sorry can't really give any worthwhile advice - too many possibilities
2 things though - 400 Ca is fine and some may feed their shrooms but most species including rics do not need to be fed and systemic feedings like DT's is not of much benifit to them
 
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KidNano

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OK... I think it was probably the environmental change. They looked great in the his tank. He'd had them for a while and there were a few other similar rocks as well. He doesn't sell much in the coral dept. his whole thing is the setup and the fish. He has just started carrying some Anemones and shrooms. a few odd things that he'll take out of his display tanks and put into a generic $45 tank. Anything in it is $45. I thought it was a great deal. Anyway there are still a couple polyps that are a still full and open just yellow instead of green. I'll keep you posted. Thanks.
 
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mikeguerrero

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Cris,

I'm willing to bet it had a lot to do with water temperature as well as the environmental changes mentioned above.

I had the same problem occur in my 12 gallon cube with a $120 dollar blue yuma that died in 7 days; just as yours did.

Mine was due in part to high temps during that time I didn't have a chiller.

Rics are very sensitive to warm water, they don't like it....

MG
 
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KidNano

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My water temp is very consistant. I think I rushed the acclimation. I didn't want my wife to know I spent $45 on a Rock and she was on her way home. I temp acclimated but didn't really give them time to adjust to the different parameters properly.
 
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mikeguerrero

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Cris,

If your water temp was the same as the LFS on a 24 hour cycle, week to week you would be okay...

However, if he ran a chiller that kept a more constant temp than your tank, you placed strain on the ric and it was down hill...

What size tank do you run and what type of temps to you maintain on a weekly schedule?

MG

My lfs sold me a ric from his show tank that ran a chiller, very constant temp if not colder than my tank; when I took her home in two days she was starting to show all the signs you shared with us. It was a hot summer and my 12 gallon tank was not at all as cool as his show tank.
 
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