Lee's Fragtacular Corals
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I picked up this Ricordia the other day and it's so bright! But does anyone have advice on getting it to split sooner or will it just happen on it's own? Also, does anybody directly feed their Ricordia's?
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Mrfresh
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Yeah there are ways to split it.
You need a really sharp razor.
Make the ric close up and explore its foot. The base.
Take the blade and cut a chunk of the foot. Make sure u cut deep.
If its possible break that part of the rock off so it won't try to grow back to it.
After a few weeks it will become a baby ric.
The other way you can literally just cut it in half and break the rock to keep them apart.
Higher chance of them dying but people do, do it.
I've never done it that way so I'm not sure if u would want to split the mouth or not.
Hope that made sence
Good luck
You need a really sharp razor.
Make the ric close up and explore its foot. The base.
Take the blade and cut a chunk of the foot. Make sure u cut deep.
If its possible break that part of the rock off so it won't try to grow back to it.
After a few weeks it will become a baby ric.
The other way you can literally just cut it in half and break the rock to keep them apart.
Higher chance of them dying but people do, do it.
I've never done it that way so I'm not sure if u would want to split the mouth or not.
Hope that made sence
Good luck
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Lee's Fragtacular Corals
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That's too cool. I had no idea you could frag ricordeas! I'll give the first method a try tomorrow on a much cheaper and not as cool ricordea.
They need LOTS of (sideways) flow. Do you recall what color the polyps are. If white it is photosynthetic and requires higher light. If polyps are brown then it needs to be fed as it gets its food from the water column.
Yours looks pretty healthy
Don't see any tissue damage. Just give it some time to acclimate.
Yours looks pretty healthy
Don't see any tissue damage. Just give it some time to acclimate.
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kth132
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Looks like a Yuma to me..I picked up this Ricordia the other day and it's so bright! But does anyone have advice on getting it to split sooner or will it just happen on it's own? Also, does anybody directly feed their Ricordia's?
