First Ricordea, What's This On The Bottom?

[lpeterson0]

Greetings all,

I just got my first Florida Ricordea from the LFS and got it home. I was reading about them attaching to rubble rock and then being able to glue that rock to other rock in my tank.

I turned the Ricordea over and it has this light colored chunk on the bottom... is this already a chunk of rock? Funny thing is I have no idea what the underside of a Ricodea mushroom looks like, and google wasn't any help either. I'm a total n00b here so wanted to ask what I am looking at before I do something stupid Thanks!

 

[shwareefer]

It's the piece of rock that it's attached too. No rock equals no way to hold it down and ricordea blowing all around your aquarium.

 

[muggle0981]

Looks like sand substrate it attached onto

 

[vetteguy53081]

rock rubble with what looks like spirobid worms - no worries

 

[muzikalmatt]

Looks like sand substrate it attached onto

I agree. I had something similar happen to my hairy mushrooms. One tried to grow onto the sandbed like this.

 

[lpeterson0]

So I'm good to glue that rock down to a larger piece of rock, right?

 

[Pistondog]

So I'm good to glue that rock down to a larger piece of rock, right?

Yep