Ricordea growth rate

[FrostyNYC]

How fast or slow do these guys grow and what's the typical maximum size? I can't find much info on their growth rate.


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[motortrendz]

depends on your tank par... and the health of your system, just like other corals some will grow super fast in an awsome system while someone else with the same exact corals grow at half the rate...

 

[Master Shake]

rics grow and multiply relatively slow, i have chalices and sps that grow faster and spread faster

 

[rookie07]

My rics grow very slow....they split, and then grow larger, then split again...but it is very slow....possibly the slowest growing thing in my tank....but dang if they dont look awesome

 

[Killerdrgn]

You can actually feed them to make them grow faster. When I still had them around, They would double in number every 1.5 months. And the largest I ever grew them to was about a little over the size of a quarter.

 

[thesauce]

+1 spot feeding makes a huge difference, when you see more than one mouth or eye it usually means its about to split

 

[Awibrandy]

Ditto on what everyone else said, except that my multi colored one that I got PnoyReefer is about two inches with several mouths, and does not appear to be spliting any time soon. Some of my others also have multiple mouth, and yet do not split.lol

 

[DREUTZ]

+1 on the multiple mouths, but no splitting. I bought it a few months ago hoping it would split but its just happy as is I guess.

 

[Killerdrgn]

if you want them to split faster feed it a little bit, a small pellet of food goes a long way.

 

[Ryanr1212]

it mostly depends on your water quality... if it's good, then they will grow fast. but then it also depends on where they are placed. i have mine on my sandbed and they split pretty fast.. about once every month-month and a half. i dont feed them but thats because i dont want to and im not really interested in them growing. but a full grown head could get around 2" diameter.

 

[E.intheC]

Does anyone feed frozen mysis to their rics? I feed mysis to my acans but they're much larger.. Ric's mouths look pretty small.

 

[Killerdrgn]

I used to feed defrosted mysis to my rics, I also fed them finely chopped up shrimp too. You'll be surprised by how much they can stretch to eat something.

 

[seldin]

I just got a ricordia recently. Why are they also called mushrooms. I know what normal mushrooms look like and the bumps on ricordia are easy to see and I can see why they are called ricordia's. But, are they a member of the mushroom family?

Thanks much,

 

[Killerdrgn]

But, are they a member of the mushroom family?

Thanks much,

Yes.

 

[seldin]

Killer,

Thank you,