Need some successful yuma keepers

[maleks.reef]

hey everyone. So I've recently found out about yumas and how beautiful they are, only problem (besides the price) is that I see so many people complaining about how hard they are to keep and how easily they just die. So I want someone who has kept yumas for a year or more to tell me what they did in order to be successful with yumas. I want to know how to make them thrive in my tank before I go out and spend a bunch of money on one of them. So please if you've successfully kept yumas tell me eveything that I should know and have to do to make sure it thrives. Thank you.

 

[Jminasalli]

I try to kill some of mine and I can’t

 

[blaxsun]

Yumas are awesome! First and foremost, buy the yumas you can afford to replace (you can always get more expensive ones when you get the hang of it). Medium lighting and flow, and medium to higher placement seems to be best. Do give them a bit of room to 'stretch' and grow.

Here's a few that I have. In the first cluster you'll see 2 Floridas, a blue-green and blue-purple yuma in the center and upper right and a blue oxide yuma (smaller) on the bottom. The next image is one of a grenadine yuma (really nice, image does not do it justice!) that's sporting 4 heads. The last one is a larger blue oxide yuma.

The grenadine yuma cost me $150, but it's already split off 2 tiny frags (one tiny green dot you can see to the left and another one in a mushroom cage that's already quadrupled in size over the past week). I snagged the blue oxide pair for a grand total of $20 - so frag swaps can be awesome!

 

[Double monti 61]

These are photos of orange spot ricordia yuma that I successfully kept in my twelve gallon tank before it was put down by a power outage during the winter they really like pe mysis.

 

[maleks.reef]

I try to kill some of mine and I can’t

How so? Everyone is complaining of how hard they are to keep ALIVE

 

[BeltedCoyote]

@LRT

thoughts on yumas? Seeing as you’re mr mushroom? Lol

 

[maleks.reef]

Yumas are awesome! First and foremost, buy the yumas you can afford to replace (you can always get more expensive ones when you get the hang of it). Medium lighting and flow, and medium to higher placement seems to be best. Do give them a bit of room to 'stretch' and grow.

Here's a few that I have. In the first cluster you'll see 2 Floridas, a blue-green and blue-purple yuma in the center and upper right and a blue oxide yuma (smaller) on the bottom. The next image is one of a grenadine yuma (really nice, image does not do it justice!) that's sporting 4 heads. The last one is a larger blue oxide yuma.

The grenadine yuma cost me $150, but it's already split off 2 tiny frags (one tiny green dot you can see to the left and another one in a mushroom cage that's already quadrupled in size over the past week). I snagged the blue oxide pair for a grand total of $20 - so frag swaps can be awesome!

Have you ever kept the more vibrant red/blue/green/pink yumas? I think these are the harder ones to keep.

 

[blaxsun]

Have you ever kept the more vibrant red/blue/green/pink yumas? I think these are the harder ones to keep.

I currently have two yuma blue oxide (red and blue), two florida, two yuma (blue/green) and several of the rarer yuma grenadine (green/pink/yellow). The crappy images I uploaded don't really do them justice.

The blue oxide that I picked up just over a week ago have already each doubled in size.

 

[Reefer45C]

I started with 1 of these about 4 years ago, and now there's a bunch.... As for care, I've never had a problem with them. They keep duplicating and if I leave a frag plug nearby theyll grow on that.

 

[LRT]

Knock on wood and thank reefer gods I haven't had any issues with Yumas.
Stability is key. Keep all params locked as tight as humanly possible. Salinity, Temp, Alk, cal, mag and some nutrients present in system. I keep Nitrates sitting around 5ppm and phosphates around .03- 1.
Some don't like to sit in intense light. Some want higher par.
Same with flow. Some hate it and some don't mind it. I try to keep good water movement around them and minimal water flow directly on them.
They all have a sweet spot just have to find it

Forgot to add that they do love to eat and they may need to eat especially in lower light/low nutrient systems. I feed mine mysis shrimp occasionally and the readily eat whatever scraps fall to them when we feed fish. They will eat if they are hungry.

 

[MaxTremors]

I only have one currently (well two it dropped a baby a while ago), and I’ve always found them to be really easy. I’ve always heard they were difficult, too, but that just has never been my experience, I don’t think they’re any more difficult than any other mushroom. Medium light, medium low flow, occasional feeding (though I’ve gone months without feeding them, and noticed no difference).

edit: one other thing is that they do seem to be more aggressive than a lot of other mushrooms, I’ve found that they will actively stretch out the tentacles on their edges to reach out to nearby corals to sting them, they can stretch and extend a lot further than you would think. Mine kind of devastated this little blasto a couple weeks ago.

 

[Tamberav]

hey everyone. So I've recently found out about yumas and how beautiful they are, only problem (besides the price) is that I see so many people complaining about how hard they are to keep and how easily they just die. So I want someone who has kept yumas for a year or more to tell me what they did in order to be successful with yumas. I want to know how to make them thrive in my tank before I go out and spend a bunch of money on one of them. So please if you've successfully kept yumas tell me eveything that I should know and have to do to make sure it thrives. Thank you.

I think you may be reading a really old thread. I remember people struggling with them way back. They are easier now for whatever reason (lighting changes? Collection changes?) and venders offer aqua-cultured ones these days too which are pretty hardy.

 

[LRT]

I only have one currently (well two it dropped a baby a while ago), and I’ve always found them to be really easy. I’ve always heard they were difficult, too, but that just has never been my experience, I don’t think they’re any more difficult than any other mushroom. Medium light, medium low flow, occasional feeding (though I’ve gone months without feeding them, and noticed no difference).

edit: one other thing is that they do seem to be more aggressive than a lot of other mushrooms, I’ve found that they will actively stretch out the tentacles on their edges to reach out to nearby corals to sting them, they can stretch and extend a lot further than you would think. Mine kind of devastated this little blasto a couple weeks ago.

Great point! The one and only time I've ever had a shroom eat a shroom was a few weeks ago when I had a snail slide a rhodactis over near a Yuma overnight. The Yuma actually walked a bit and draped its skirt over rhodactis. By time I noticed it next day the area under Yuma skirt was totally liquefied and gone. Looked like I took the Rhodactis and cut it in half. They can be nasty little guys for sure!
This is my cannibal shroom ive knick named her Black Widow haha

 

[Udest]

Quick question what are those yellow polyps ? Are they the dreaded yellow colonial polyp or something else? I like the color on them.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

How so? Everyone is complaining of how hard they are to keep ALIVE

I don't think I've ever had a yuma melt on me..

 

[Mr Cypher]

I keep mine on the floor very happy next to all my other shrooms has already produced 2 baby's only had my kong for a few months

 

[maleks.reef]

What a relief reading all those comments. My LFS got a shipment of some crazy stunning yumas but most of my research just kept scaring me away. Thanks everyone for the feedback !

 

[Jminasalli]

How so? Everyone is complaining of how hard they are to keep ALIVE

I’ve literally covered them with rubble and super glue and they still find a way out

 

[ZoWhat]

I successfully keep rics of all colors.

I would point success to:
* just a whisper of flow (most important)
* keep on bottom of tank
* keep PAR under 100 in 420-450ish NM light
* no3 around 5, po4 below 0.3
* super stable temp at 78° +/- 0.2° 24hr/7days


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[Jminasalli]

I successfully keep rics of all colors.

I would point success to:
* just a whisper of flow (most important)
* keep on bottom of tank
* keep PAR under 100 in 420-450ish NM light
* no3 around 5, po4 below 0.3
* super stable temp at 78° +/- 0.2° 24hr/7days


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Mine are in super high flow and about 350 par and indestructible