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[MikeyG]

I would so much love for my Ricordeas to flourish, but lately my luck has been to opposite.

Over the past 2-3 weeks I noticed my Ricordea mushrooms have been shrinking, and down right disappearing. Yes, I said disappearing all together.


My CA, MG, and dKh are all within specks for a ULM mixed reef tank.


I have to dose with Red Sea Reef Energy A & B because mu nutrients level are very low...0.25 phosphate, and 0.125 nitrates.


I have them placed on the bottom of my tank with not much flow, because that's the recommended location for them based on what i have read across multiple sites including Live Aquaria, World Wide Corals, and Ultimate corals, ETC.


I also dose with ATI Essentials PRO to ensure adequate amount of trace elements are available in the system.


Any help/suggestion for correcting this problem will be greatly appreciated.


Other softies are doing great.

1. Tank Size = 300gal
2. Total Water Vol = 357gal
3. PH = 8.12
4. TEMP = 76-80 degrees Fahrenheit
5. CA = 470
6. MG = 1440
7. dKh = 12-13ppm
8. Nitrates = 0.125ppm
9. Phosphate = 0.25ppm
10. Salt = 1.024 specific gravity
11. 20gal refugium
12. Over sized Algae Scrubber
13. 700lbs live rock
14. 37 fishes
15. 80 snails of mixed variety
16. Lighting = 4 Kessil A360x; 8 x 4ft ATI 54w T5 bulbs (Kessils run primarily in the blue spectrum while the T5's provide full spectrum)
17. Light duration 12 hours/daily (peak lighting from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM) ramp up and down

 

[flchamp89]

Here's some of mine. Pictures aren't great. They are growing.

 

[Poseidon03]

I would so much love for my Ricordeas to flourish, but lately my luck has been to opposite.

Over the past 2-3 weeks I noticed my Ricordea mushrooms have been shrinking, and down right disappearing. Yes, I said disappearing all together.


My CA, MG, and dKh are all within specks for a ULM mixed reef tank.


I have to dose with Red Sea Reef Energy A & B because mu nutrients level are very low...0.25 phosphate, and 0.125 nitrates.


I have them placed on the bottom of my tank with not much flow, because that's the recommended location for them based on what i have read across multiple sites including Live Aquaria, World Wide Corals, and Ultimate corals, ETC.


I also dose with ATI Essentials PRO to ensure adequate amount of trace elements are available in the system.


Any help/suggestion for correcting this problem will be greatly appreciated.


Other softies are doing great.

1. Tank Size = 300gal
2. Total Water Vol = 357gal
3. PH = 8.12
4. TEMP = 76-80 degrees Fahrenheit
5. CA = 470
6. MG = 1440
7. dKh = 12-13ppm
8. Nitrates = 0.125ppm
9. Phosphate = 0.25ppm
10. Salt = 1.024 specific gravity
11. 20gal refugium
12. Over sized Algae Scrubber
13. 700lbs live rock
14. 37 fishes
15. 80 snails of mixed variety
16. Lighting = 4 Kessil A360x; 8 x 4ft ATI 54w T5 bulbs (Kessils run primarily in the blue spectrum while the T5's provide full spectrum)
17. Light duration 12 hours/daily (peak lighting from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM) ramp up and down

Those look like yumas and unfortunately, so many people are perplexed by this exact problem