Reef Discussion

[ReeferRob]

In mushrooms, there is Ricordea, Discosoma, Paradiscosoma, Rhodactus and Actinodiscus. The correct way to write a local race, what that colour truly is, would be Ricordea yuma var. Super Orange. Colour variations do not always make it a new species.

 

[Sam Parker]

Yep, with rics they are either Yuma or Florida. Technically there shouldn't be floridas in aus, but there are a fair few of them about

 

[MagicJ]

Technically there shouldn't be floridas in aus, but there are a fair few of them about

... and let's not open that can of worms :p

 

[ReeferRob]

 

[somethingfishy76]

Sorry for the late reply guys... give that bit of foot a cut and watch the magic happen. I have done it heaps of times and on one of my most prized Rics too. The pup will grow just like it would if the ric let it go itself.

 

[somethingfishy76]

ps. I bought an orange rick for $80 and he was only 6-7mm across... took forever to grow out. Since then I have chopped him up three times now into four pieces each time. CHOP!!!!
They have always grown out and I have currently four quarters growing out in my frag holder.

 

[ezza]

"Super orange" it is! It's a bit of a bummer it can be so hard to get accurate taxonomic classification details. I used to study horticulture and I'm just used to filing such things away in my head.

 

[somethingfishy76]

Boom.... @MagicJ

 

[somethingfishy76]

All four doing great, dad is super proud.

 

[somethingfishy76]

I have had my large orange Ricordea for a few years but it has never thrown a pup. Given its size (and value) I have always been reluctant to take a knife to it. During a recent talk with @somethingfishy76 he mentioned that a new ric will develop if a part of the foot can be seperated from the rest of the foot.

So, this is a picture of my ric a short time after the lights turned off last night - it has begun to withdraw slightly and you can see a perfect place to seperate part of the foot.

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@somethingfishy76 - do you agree that this looks like a perfect place to put the knife into action?

Again I apologise for the late reply, perfect spot to cut yes. This is typically where the ric will leave piece behind but this might take ages, so I tend to simply help the little guy make up his mind. I have with the one I just fragged, cut it off the rock completely as he had a long base. Then I had a complete ric to frag and a stump" that quickly turned into a new ric within a few weeks.

 

[MagicJ]

It's a bit of a bummer it can be so hard to get accurate taxonomic classification detail

I'm not sure what you mean by this - Ricordea yuma is the full, official taxonomic name :)

World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
view in classification Species

• Biota +
  • Animalia +
    • Cnidaria Verrill, 1865 +
      • Anthozoa Ehrenberg, 1834 +
        • Hexacorallia Haeckel, 1896 +
          • Corallimorpharia +
            • Ricordeidae Watzl 1922 +
              • Ricordea +
                • Ricordea yuma (Carlgren, 1900)
                • Ricordea florida Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860

 

[MagicJ]

I had a chance to take a picture last night after lights had been off for a while - these two pieces of the foot seem to be going OK, and there should be another one under the right hand edge of the ric,

One week down ...

 

[ReeferRob]

Y'all have bugger plums than I do. I am more nervous than a virgin on prom night when I get in high dollar stuff like that and there's NO WAY IN HELL I'd go chopping on a $300 Ricordea. My last bounce shroom box was $2800, 7 bags 24 shrooms and $407 shipping/CITES/clearance! Needless to say, that box rode in the front with me.

 

[Mattres]

I had a chance to take a picture last night after lights had been off for a while - these two pieces of the foot seem to be going OK, and there should be another one under the right hand edge of the ric,

One week down ...

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How are they going now?
About the time u did this I removed two small babies from my ric rock and put them on a new rock to get some light. 1 has grown quite well to the size of a finger nail but the other has melted away.