My ricordia has tentacles...

[vetteguy53081]

@vetteguy53081 I have moved them all over the tank with the same result. He's situated about half way up under 3 g5 xr30's. What constitutes a low light environment? Zoa's and other shrooms aren't stretching

Calling for moderate light and water flow, moderate is focused mainly white hue not to dim or bright (happy medium)
An example is 70% blue and 20% white

 

[LRT]

Any pictures of the shroom before it decided to throw long vesicles?
My lfs as well as alot of folks get Florida ricordia mixed up with ricordia yuma quite often but there are very distinct differences between the 2 sub species. Ricordea yuma will throw long or bouncy vesicles pretty naturally.
Never seen a Florida ricordea do that.

 

[LRT]

Also just though I'd add. Ive been doing quite a bit of experimenting with spectrum lately. Some shrooms absoloutely will throw bounces and longer vesicles under heavy blue light. In some you can pretty much watch it happen almost instantly.
In whites or fuller spectrum most will sprawl out and lay flat as if they are basking in the sun.
In all, heavy blue spectrum with same shrooms. Mostly bounces. They will retract cap and shrink up but push up the bounces and frilly vesicles more fully and fill them with zooxanthelle.
Pretty sure its a defense mechanism shielding themselves to the spectrum.
IMO they def don't look as healthy as they do in healthy more full spectrum.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

@LRT

What do you make of this?

 

[AllieBdot]

Any pictures of the shroom before it decided to throw long vesicles?
My lfs as well as alot of folks get Florida ricordia mixed up with ricordia yuma quite often but there are very distinct differences between the 2 sub species. Ricordea yuma will throw long or bouncy vesicles pretty naturally.
Never seen a Florida ricordea do that.

@LRT The 2 bluer pics were last August and the light one is may probably about when I brought it home.

 

[Goaway]

@LRT The 2 bluer pics were last August and the light one is may probably about when I brought it home.

Im so jealous!!!! I love this stuff

 

[LRT]

@LRT The 2 bluer pics were last August and the light one is may probably about when I brought it home.

Yuma I have one thats really similar to yours before the vesicles decided to extrude on you. Mine looks like its doing it as well.
Og godzilla yuma does same thing they just fill up with fatter vesicles.
Nice shroom
My Yuma push them harder with more whites, greens and reds. I almost had my og godzilla cap full of bounces last week pushing heavy whites.

 

[LRT]

Og godzilla yuma

Original Banditone mom

I have seen the Og godzilla throw super long vesicles but super fat like a bounce shroom.

 

[AllieBdot]

Og godzilla yuma

Original Banditone mom

I have seen the Og godzilla throw super long vesicles but super fat like a bounce shroom.

Omg that's awesome. It looks like marbles.

I kind of want to go out and buy another one place it close and see what happens. My lights are primary blues and violets then we balance the reds and greens and whites so the tanks isn't so blue during the day.

 

[LRT]

Omg that's awesome. It looks like marbles.

I kind of want to go out and buy another one place it close and see what happens. My lights are primary blues and violets then we balance the reds and greens and whites so the tanks isn't so blue during the day.

Oddly enough its predominantly the whites that make Yumas push heavier bouncing bubbles in my system.
Exact opposite for rhodactis bounce and magic carpet shroom I have. In heavy blues the caps tighten up and nearly fill the cap with bubbles with all blues and no whites.
I've chalked it up to deep and shallow water shrooms. Not sure what else it could be.
I bet yours would fatten up if you bumped your white channel a bit but I wouldn't do that as you really can do more harm than good.
You could also try moving it a little closer but its doing great as is id let it grow.

 

[sfin52]

Its a recordia yumma.

Same coral the first one was 2020 second pic was from March. Both @Erin O and @TriggerFinger have a baby

 

[sfin52]

Omg that's awesome. It looks like marbles.

I kind of want to go out and buy another one place it close and see what happens. My lights are primary blues and violets then we balance the reds and greens and whites so the tanks isn't so blue during the day.

Mine does the same thing

 

[LRT]

Its a recordia yumma.

Same coral the first one was 2020 second pic was from March. Both @Erin O and @TriggerFinger have a baby

That's a nice piece man. Need to get back over to your build. What kind of lighting are you hitting those with?

 

[sfin52]

That's a nice piece man. Need to get back over to your build. What kind of lighting are you hitting those with?

T5. About 150 par moderate flow. You can see the tentacles move in the flow