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could it be my alk/dhk? it was at 14 dhk but my rics were loving it. My dhk is hovering at 9.5-10 now and my rics are falling off
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Our 2 rics just fell off to. And well we have tried to place them in some other place, thinking maybe it was just a bad lighting arrangement, but well with currents we have lost one, and the other never seems satisfied.
So any helpful advice would be helping more than just one person.
Nathan
So any helpful advice would be helping more than just one person.
Nathan
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Nathan...For some reasons your avatar always cracked a smile on my face. BTW your hippo tang's still eating like a hog and not shy at all. Thanks again
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You mean the "Other" Nathan (nanoreef), as far as the hippo.
Glad you like my Avatar, I am the one standing.
All my water parameters were looking good, and I had just got my Rics 3 days before from City Pets as one with 2 mouths. I take the razorblade and slice it, they heal back. The one I sliced wrong, jumped off the rock first, next day followed by the other. And since lost one, and the othe won't settle on any rock.
Can I rubber band it to a rock?
Do rics normally like shade like other mushrooms?
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Glad you like my Avatar, I am the one standing.
All my water parameters were looking good, and I had just got my Rics 3 days before from City Pets as one with 2 mouths. I take the razorblade and slice it, they heal back. The one I sliced wrong, jumped off the rock first, next day followed by the other. And since lost one, and the othe won't settle on any rock.
Can I rubber band it to a rock?
Do rics normally like shade like other mushrooms?
Nathan
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Check your salinity.
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i'd be the last person you'd want to ask anything reef related...im a rookie in training
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I have to agree with Reefalot. I raised a decent amount of mushrooms/ricordia in Chicago and the most frequent reason for them jumping ship was that my salinity was too high due to not topping off.
I did also have a couple jump ship because I put them too high up in the tank when I was first learning, they must have been getting sunburnt
I did also have a couple jump ship because I put them too high up in the tank when I was first learning, they must have been getting sunburnt
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Well my salinity sits between 1.023 and 1.025, depending on topoff. Using a Hydrometer (thats the one with the little hand that raises with the water right?)
They jumpped when they were sitting on the floor, so if that is to high I am in trouble, though I do have some shade i was thinking of rubberbanding the last one to.
They jumpped when they were sitting on the floor, so if that is to high I am in trouble, though I do have some shade i was thinking of rubberbanding the last one to.
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It has been 4 years since working with my ricordia, but if I remember correctly I had one colony of 3 ricordia that was dead center on the bottom of my tank. It had one rock shelf directly above it that provided some shade, but the light from both sides of the tank (it was a 55 gal, 18" high) hit them from the sides. Their diameter was the largest I saw when they were in that position as opposed to a full light area. I was using my 2 MH lights at the time(don't remember their watts right now).
I generally found my mushrooms to do best under PC lighting(they split a lot more in my 30 gal with PC than my 55 under MH). But take that with grain of salt(water
) as those were just my observations. I've read online that MH is great for mushrooms as well.
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I generally found my mushrooms to do best under PC lighting(they split a lot more in my 30 gal with PC than my 55 under MH). But take that with grain of salt(water
) as those were just my observations. I've read online that MH is great for mushrooms as well.B.
rics generally like more light than mushrooms. It doesn't sound like they need a lot tho. too much will also cause them to detach from their rock. I've seen plenty of threads where people put theirs under a jutting out piece of LR to shade them from MH. Others put them near the bottom of the tank at the edge of their MH light spread.
Perhaps it's the acclimation? This is just me, but I wouldn't slice anything newly introduced to my tank until it's been happy for quite awhile. but if you say they healed, then you're braver than i.
btw, that avatar is awesome!
Perhaps it's the acclimation? This is just me, but I wouldn't slice anything newly introduced to my tank until it's been happy for quite awhile. but if you say they healed, then you're braver than i.
btw, that avatar is awesome!
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Cparka, I was actually going to wait on slicing it, but I had not realized that the rock it was across was broken, and when I placed it looked good, but an hour later one half had slipped from where I had placed it, and there was a tear in the ric from the tear, so I just cut the rest.
Yeah, I have always liked the kami avatars, but this one being 2 of them, with one waving made me think of me and my wife.
Yeah, I have always liked the kami avatars, but this one being 2 of them, with one waving made me think of me and my wife.
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Since we are talking Ricordia, there was a big stink when I was leaving the hobby 4 years ago about Florida stopping all collection of Ricordia from their waters. Anybody know iff that is that still in effect? Can you get Ricordia if it is growing on LR that is being cultured down there, by TBS as an example?
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Not sure if Florida officially still is not shipping but U know this topic came up at Partners in Austin a few weeks back. They received 3 or 4 rocks covered in Rics, at least 10-15 rics per rock. They thought it was pretty odd to see that since they thought the Florida ban was still in effect. They didn't know if they were illegally gathered but it was a great deal for me to pick those rics up.
As far as the slicing of the Rics, when you do that doesn't one of your levels possibly spike (in a smaller tank), Ammonia maybe??? Not sure, maybe that could be the problem.
As far as the slicing of the Rics, when you do that doesn't one of your levels possibly spike (in a smaller tank), Ammonia maybe??? Not sure, maybe that could be the problem.
