How do I get a Ricordea off my live rock?

[Just John]

I went away for a week and when I came back a couple of Florida Ricordea had firmly attached themselves to the main live rock right at sand level and need to be removed. Can anyone help me with that?

 

[lapin]

Point a power head at them for a few hours

 

[Just John]

Point a power head at them for a few hours

Unfortunately, I won't be able to do that because of the position.

 

[Timfish]

Well, if a power head won't work and you want to save them use a scalpel to carefully scrap them off the rock, then put them in a dish with sand sitting somewhere in your tank until the feet heal up and you can superglue them to a bigger rock. Or if you don't care about saving them you can siphon them out using a stainless steel straw to scrape them off and suck out the gunk.

Steel Straws

 

[Just John]

Cutting them off is what I had expected I would need to do, but hoped I might be able to do it without injuring them. Thanks for the video link. I am going to get one of those!

 

[Auto-pilot]

Ive allways had to cut them off and never really had too much success with the power head trick. I they are on loose they might fall off if you bug them with a toothbrush. If they are on super tight a razor blade. I have a ridiculous amount of shrooms and when i cut them off some die some live. They get brown jelly sometimes for me

 

[James_O]

@LRT

 

[Pistondog]

Coax with finger or credit card.
Some say ice helps them release

 

[ZoWhat]

No cutting, scrapping... you'll damage the dang thing.

Best way is to pull the LR and turn the LR upside down outside the tank. Keep it wet with tank water by spraying spritzing it

It will get urinated-off and drop away in the matter of 5-10mins from the gravity pull

 

[Just John]

No cutting, scrapping... you'll damage the dang thing.

Best way is to pull the LR and turn the LR upside down outside the tank. Keep it wet with tank water by spraying spritzing it

It will get urinated-off and drop away in the matter of 5-10mins from the gravity pull

LR can't be removed, unfortunately. If they can be cut in half for propagation, why would cutting a bit of the foot off be a problem?

 

[ZoWhat]

LR can't be removed, unfortunately. If they can be cut in half for propagation, why would cutting a bit of the foot off be a problem?

In that case, get a very sharp wood chisel and secure the chisel to a pvc pipe (duct tape) and chisel around the the Ric by hammering the end of the pvc pipe

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Something I tried a few months back. I had a nice medium piece of live rock covered with blue mushrooms. It was actually quite nice looking. But I was finished with mushrooms and sold it. One was left on a large life rock pedestal. I didn’t want it reproducing. It too was at the edge of the sand. So when I vacuumed my sand, I syphoned up the sand and piled up some sand over that one blue mushroom. I thought it would detach but I’ve not seen it since. Good luck.